Posts Tagged ‘Valldemossa’
On the trail of . . . Chopin in Mallorca
June 20, 2020
For decades I’d read about an abandoned 13th. century Carthusian monastery to which Fryderyk Chopin and his lover George Sand retreated, far away from the prying eyes of Parisian society. The atmosphere it evokes, both from Sand’s pen and from a number of biographers, sounded so quintessentially romantic. Legend has it that while staying in […]