3.1 Fundació Josep Pla: audiovisual presentation Josep Pla, viatger (Josep Pla, traveller) 24 mins duration
3.2 The house where Josep Pla was born: permanent exhibition, Josep Pla (1897-1981)
3.3 Josep Pla route (short): Palafrugell centre and Sant Sebastià lighthouse.

Groups: minimum of 20 people.
Price: 3’50 €/person.
Duration: Approx. 2 hours 45 mins.

Audiovisual presentation, Permanent Exhibition, Palafrugell and the San Sebastià Lighthouse

The Josep Pla Route is an itinerary designed by the Fundació for readers to get to know Pla’s work, together with various significant places related to Pla in Palafrugell and the surrounding area. It’s route is marked by the biographical and literary references to the author.

This offer does not include all the points of the itinerary (you can always do the entire itinerary on your own account, using the Josep Pla Route folder), but it does combine some points of the Route with the visit to the Fundació Josep Pla and the house where the author was born.

First of all, you will visit the Fundació Josep Pla (carrer Nou, 51) where you will be informed about the objectives of this organisation and the material that it has accrued. Then you will see an audiovisual presentation about the writer, and after that you will visit the house where Josep Pla was born (carrer Nou, 49) where the permanent exhibition Josep Pla (1897-1981)  is situated. This exhibition explains the author’s literary and journalistic journey together with that of his life, within the framework of the historical evolution of the 20th century.

Josep Pla (1897-1981)

Once the visit to the Fundació is over we will begin the Route.

First of all, we will head towards Carrer Torres i Jonama, number 56, where the Pla family went to live in 1904; then we will head towards Plaça Nova, formerly an olive grove outside the town walls, where you can find the Circulo Mercantil (former casino of the wealthy), which closed in 1988, and the Centre Fraternal (a still functioning working man’s club); and after that we will head towards the Can Bech gardens where the monument that Palafrugell dedicated to the writer in 1984, the work of the sculptor Manel Cusachs, is situated.

Once the visit to Palafrugell is over, we will take the bus and head for the Sant Sebastià Lighthouse, the place in which Pla, in his youth, made his first attempts in writing. It is necessary to go to the hermitage to contemplate the immensity of the sea from the terrace of the former hostel and the current Hotel El Far.