When traveling to Costa Brava, hotel accommodations hold the potential to make the trip a memorable one. Our hotels are distinctive in their style and graciousness, offering an excellent array of amenities to refresh the mind and spirit, and to rejuvenate the body. It is no secret that Costa Brava has sumptuous choices for fresh seafood, and our in-house chefs are renowned for their skill in creating delicious local fare with international twists. The decor in our hotels is also quite exceptional, providing a soothing and energizing ambience that is felt in all corners of our facilities. Hospitality is in generous supply here, to insure that your time spent here is remarkable and relaxing. This is a perfect place to escape from it all, and to take in the amazing vistas that lie outside the hotel walls.
Marked as a potentially viable vacation spot in the 1950s, Costa Brava has been visited by tourists in large numbers, turning it from a lazy fishing village to a beach town. Even before the 1950s, however, it was seen as a kind of paradise on earth. There are many famous people who have found inspiration in the beach life and landscape here, not the least of which was Pablo Picasso. Born in nearby Malaga in 1881, Picasso’s themes and subjects are considered by many art historians to be universal, yet they are also simultaneously remarkably and distinctively Spanish. His father, also a painter, entered him in a fine arts school when he was ten years old, and soon began to display the remarkable talent that would come to characterize his name. His father, recognizing his son’s genius, is said to have laid down his brush and never painted again.
Picasso went on to paint some of the most recognizable and valuable works of contemporary art. His early work demonstrates a range of styles and influences, but when his friend, Casagemas, committed suicide in 1901, he began to work in his Blue period, which is considered to be pivotal in his development as an artist. One of Picasso’s most recognizable periods, as far as historians are concerned, is his Cubist period. This is characterized by Picasso’s signature reinterpretations of facial and body structures, and is said to have been influenced by Einstein’s theory of relativity. Picasso was always working with fashionable ideas, but his inspiration from the sea is timeless.
