Amigos de Borges

"Aquel que leyere una línea de Borges
(re)descubre la mejor Biblioteca..."

Monte de la Inspiración

The photos on the above screen and in the page show a hill within Can Mossenya estate [a significant part of the original Royal Chartreuse of Jesus of Nazareth estate since 1300]. The popular believe is that in this hill a uneducated woman from the nearby town of Valldemosa, Catalina Thomàs (1531-1574), would come in search of God, to pray Him in the peaceful beauty of this landscape . In 1930 she gained sainthood by decision of HH Pio XI, for her fight against the temptations of the flesh and for spending a simple life under a local religious order. She is the saint of Majorca and the natives believe that her body is maintain incorrupt since her death, which she would had predicted 10 years in advance. In all the towns of the island is celebrated her "departure to Heaven" the 28th of July.
As George Sand did in her 'Winter in Majorca' with Chopin in 1835, Borges also left some witty and critic observations on the island's folklore, which he observed during his sojourns with his genitors and his sister Norah between 1919 and 1923.

climbing to the Highs of Inspiration

The "Word Mill" (of Arabic features) that the locals called "Molino de la Beata"

An space between Sunrise and Sunset

Watch the trailer of the award wining film "Into Great Silence"
("Die GroBe Stille") by Philip Groening

Borges con su hermana Norah y dos amigos en Can Mossenya (circa 1919)
Can Mossenya estate with the Carthusian convent (circa 1986),
the historic state of The Royal Chartreuse of Jesus of Nazareth, declared National Monument in 1971.

Turn on to listen "Taqsim"
by Al Turath Ensemble directed by Muhammad Hamadiyih