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Country
  
Website
  
gallifa.cat

Area
  
16.3 km²

Population
  
202 (2014)

Autonomous community
  
Postal code
  
08146

Elevation
  
502 m

Local time
  
Friday 1:32 AM

Province
  
Province of Barcelona

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Weather
  
11°C, Wind N at 5 km/h, 76% Humidity

Gallifa is a municipality in the comarca of the Vallès Occidental in Catalonia, north-eastern Spain. It contains the Castle of Gallifa and was the location of the studio of ceramic artist Josep Llorens i Artigas and his son.

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Map of 08146 Gallifa, Barcelona, Spain

Claim to fame

The Castle of Gallifa overlooks the village from a height of 600 metres.

In 1953 Joan Miró and Josep Llorens i Artigas worked at Artigas's studio in Gallifa. There they created "firestones" which they exhibited under their joint names, including in 1956 a joint exhibition in New York. The following year the two worked on a mural for the UNESCO headquarters and for the University of Harvard. The tiles that made up the two murals for the UNESCO building were created in Gallifa and Miro supervised their installation in Paris. The murals are called "The Wall of the Sun" and "The Wall of the Moon".

The tiles for Joan Miró's ceramic mural (the Miró Wall) were fired in Gallifa and they were then transported 1200 km to the Ludwigshafen museum in Germany. They were placed four to a box so that they could moved down the mountain by mule. After that lorries and the train were used to complete the journey from Catalonia to south western Germany.

References

Gallifa Wikipedia


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