Three hours, nine stops. The tour starts with the result, the hotel in 1929, and travels back to its causes: Ramaugé's fortress, the Miramar terrace and Anglada's hut. It breaks forward once at the Alhambra for 1936, reaches the deepest root at Costa i Llobera's door, tells Dionís's whole life in his house, and closes the circle under the Formentor pines.
Archive entries come from Dionís's own manuscripts (autobiography 1946, Brown Book 1945, late notebook). Items tagged Check still need a source or a family confirmation.
One slide per stop: where you are, what year you are talking about, the line to land, what to remember, and how long you have. Use the arrow keys to move.
The current script merges the two: the Seaplane spine, with the plaques, Borràs and the Miramar, and Costa i Llobera taken from Told Backwards. Kept here for reference.
| The Art Colony, Told Backwards | A Thousand Years and a Seaplane | |
|---|---|---|
| Driving idea | A mystery: why did this great meeting place fall silent? | A thesis: the birth of modern tourism, seen through one painter who crossed from the old farming world into the modern one |
| Shape | Back in time, one forward break at 1936, deepest root at Costa i Llobera, forward to the Fundació | Back in time to the causes, then forward through Dionís's life, then back to Formentor |
| Ends | At the Fundació, with tea | Under the Formentor pines, with a looking exercise |
| Length | Not timed; one-way | About 4 h 30 to 5 h, round trip |
| The boat | Narrated: Fortaleza on the way | Silent crossing, then Fortaleza and the port as the longest stop |
| Origin story | Borràs and the Miramar terrace | Ramaugé as prototype, Anglada as magnet; Miramar only named |
| The bridge | Dionís alone | Cittadini, who mentored Dionís and gave Diehl the hotel idea |
| Dionís's life | Mostly 1936 and after | Whole arc: farm boy, Morocco wound, left hand, army pension, 1934 debut, war, home, thinker |
| Big reveal | The pine was his own symbol | Catalina "Moreta", the hotel's jazz pianist, becomes his wife |
| War and memory | Alhambra, plus the execution plaques in the road | Alhambra and town hall; no plaques |
| Costa i Llobera | His house is a stop; the pine poem sets up the ending | Not used |
| Diehl's ruin | 1934, as part of the answer | Not mentioned |
| Delivery tool | Voice only | Touchscreen briefcase and painter's stool, then-and-now images |
| Who delivers | You | Third-party guide trained by the Foundation |
| Point | Told Backwards | Seaplane | What to use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dionís's birth date | 22 March 1904 | 4 April 1904 | 22 March 1904. The civil register overrides the date in his own hand. Fix the Seaplane doc. |
| Marriage | Not dated | 1943, and buys the house that year | Check with Toni. The notebook lists a 1935 work titled Sueños de mi mujer. |
| Can Xura | "A place called Can Xura" | "The Can Xura mill" | Check. The archive doesn't call it a mill. |
| Diehl's arrival | Bought Formentor 1928 | Settled in Mallorca 1926 | Both can stand: settled 1926, bought 1928. |
| Hotel opening | 1929 | 24 August 1929 | 24 August 1929. |
| How Diehl was drawn in | Cittadini told him to see Pollença | Met Anglada in Paris through Cittadini, who urged the hotel | Seaplane wording is more precise. |
| Ramaugé | Drawn by the Miramar terrace | Part of Anglada's circle (flagged as assumed) | Neither is sourced yet. |
| Anglada | Settled about 1914 | First visit 1909, settled 1914, bought land in the Port 1931 | Seaplane dates. |
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