Can Marió is the centre and the meeting place for the villagers. It has its counter, its bottles, a row of glasses, in case one gets thirsty after not having wasted one´s breath; a coffee maker in the embers, four tables with their corresponding marble tops, a newspaper from the city, for those who can read, and some porches outside, to watch those who… never walk by.

“A Can Marió” La isla de la calma, 1912

Translated by Núria Cohen.

(Barcelona, 1861 – Aranjuez, 1931). Santiago Rusiñol i Prats, a painter and writer, was part of the bohemian way of life at the beginning of the twentieth century that was interested above all in art and literature. He discovered the landscapes of Catalonia with the painter Ramon Cases, he made long sojourns in Paris, and in Sitges, he organized the Festes Modernistes between 1892 and 1899. His book L´illa de la calma (1921) was the outcome of Rusiñol´s relationship with Mallorca, where he often travelled and where he felt especially enticed by its landscapes.