2023-07-19 11:54:02
Swords to hordes of children – it is hard to believe that the Museo Sa Bassa Blanca, Mallorcan for “white rock”, is a former military base, given the dreamlike, hectare-sized park landscape nestled around a radiant white house designed by the Egyptian master architect Hassan Fathy. Nothing speaks more of the site’s military past than three concrete steles from the former observatory at the top of the mountain, which offers a picturesque view of one of the most beautiful bays on the island. The main buildings of the base itself are invisible today, as the multi-winged main building of the museum was built on their foundations. As probably the least visited world-class collection in the vicinity of Alcúdia, the former Roman island capital of Pollentia, it is the last insider tip on the Germans’ favorite island.
It is also a testament to love, an almost unknown Taj Mahal in Mallorca. Because the artist couple Yannick and Ben Jakober, she, eighty-two years old, daughter of one of the most important Vietnamese artists, fluent in five languages and cosmopolitan, he fled from the National Socialists from Austria to London as a child, after ten years of working for Rothschild and earning a fortune decided for a similarly successful artistic career and soon to be ninety-three years old, created the blooming garden paradise from 2001 for themselves, their works – but above all for their 1993 dead in an accident daughter.
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