Frescoes, Can Sora House, Begur, Catalonia, Spain

Can Sora House, an Indianos mansion built 1870 by the Cama Marti family, who emigrated to Cuba, with restored frescoes on the walls of the exterior patio featuring romantic landscapes of the Americas, in Begur on the Costa Brava, Emporda, Catalonia, Spain. There are many of these opulent private homes in the town, built by local people who emigrated to Cuba to escape poverty, then returned with their newly made fortunes. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Can Sora House, an Indianos mansion built 1870 by the Cama Marti family, who emigrated to Cuba, with restored frescoes on the walls of the exterior patio featuring romantic landscapes of the Americas, in Begur on the Costa Brava, Emporda, Catalonia, Spain. There are many of these opulent private homes in the town, built by local people who emigrated to Cuba to escape poverty, then returned with their newly made fortunes. Picture by Manuel Cohen