Valldemossa, Thursday, 5th of April.

On the fifth day we planned to walk from Valldemossa to Deia. We took the bus to Valldemossa. But when we were ready to start our hike it also started to rain very heavily and we gave up and took the bus back after doing some sightseeing in Valldemossa.


A beautiful town in north-west Majorca, Valldemossa is the highest community on the island and sits on the slopes of the Tramuntana mountains.





Valldemossa gained some sort of fame when Polish composer Frederic Chopin came and stayed at the Carthusian monastery (Cartoixa Reial) with his lover George Sand in the winter of 1838-39.
The monastery had been turned into rented accommodation three years earlier during the suppression of the monasteries - the monks had been there since 1399 - and Chopin and Sand were in the vanguard of the area's tourist development.
The composer had tuberculosis but still managed to produce some of his best work here, while Sand wrote an epistle called 'A Winter in Majorca ' about their experiences. She sniped mercilessly at the locals, while admiring the region's beauty. " Anything that can be dreamt by the painter or the poet has been created by nature in this place," she wrote.