Whilst looking through my pictures for my previous post about El Capricho I came across the picture of the bird on a piano keyboard…
It reminded me of the story of Mozart’s Starling and I wondered if Gaudi also knew about the unlikely tale.
Posted in Arts and Crafts, Austria, Childhood, Europe, History, Literature, Spain, Travel, World Heritage
Tagged Austria, Comillas, El Capricho, Mozart, Mozart's Starling, Pet Birds, Roderick Bull, Salzburg
Although the forecast was poor the weather by contrast was better than expected and there was a clear blue sky with just a few wispy clouds and from the museum car park it was possible to see the sea only a few hundred metres away.
We drove out of the village on a road that climbed quickly and at the top we were overawed by a sight that we were not prepared for. At a distance of about fifty kilometres we could see the two thousand five hundred metre high peaks of the Picos de Europa which remained snow capped and glistening white in the mid morning sun.
Posted in Beaches, Cantabria, Europe, Food, History, Natural Environment, Spain, Travel, World Heritage
Tagged Antoni Gaudi, Cantabria, Comillas, Culture, El Capricho, Life, Picos de Europa, San Vicente De La Barquera, Santillana del Mar
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