Gallifa

Gallifa
Municipality
The castle became a church
Flag Coat of arms
Gallifa Gallifa Location in Catalonia
Coordinates: ES 41°41′39″N 2°6′56″E / 41.69417°N 2.11556°E
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Catalonia
Province	Barcelona
Comarca	Vallès Occidental
Government
• Mayor	Mateu Comalrena de Sobregrau Esteve (2015)[1]
Area[2]
• Total	16.3 km^2 (6.3 sq mi)
Elevation	502 m (1,647 ft)
Population (2014)[1]
• Total	202
• Density	12/km^2 (32/sq mi)
Postal code	08146
Website	gallifa.cat

Gallifa is a municipality in the comarca of the Vallès Occidental in Catalonia, north-eastern Spain.^[3] It contains the Castle of Gallifa and was the location of the studio of ceramic artist Josep Llorens i Artigas and his son.

Claim to fame

The Castle of Gallifa overlooks the village from a height of 600 metres.^[4]

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".^[5]

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.^[6]

References

1. "Ajuntament de Gallifa". Generalitat of Catalonia. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
2. "El municipi en xifres: Gallifa". Statistical Institute of Catalonia. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
3. Panareda Clopés, Josep Maria; Rios Calvet, Jaume; Rabella Vives, Josep Maria (1989). Guia de Catalunya, Barcelona:Caixa de Catalunya. ISBN 84-87135-01-3 (Spanish). ISBN 84-87135-02-1 (Catalan).
4. Castles in Spain, Spain.net, retrieved May 2014
5. MIRO, Joan (1893-1983), with José Llorens ARTIGAS, UNESCO, retrieved 11 May 2014
6. "The wall by Joan Miró". InterTrans Gmbh. Retrieved 28 September 2011.

External links

• Official website (Catalan)