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VALLDEMOSSA - SPAIN
Valldemossa is a village in Majorca, Spain.
It is home to a monastery that since the 19th century has housed several
prominent guests, most famously the composer Frederic Chopin and French
writer and pre-feminist George Sand (who had a ten year affair with the
Polish composer and wrote her acclaimed novel "A Winter in Majorca" based on
their visit). Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío cured his alcoholism at the
monastery, and Argentine short-story writer Jorge Luis Borges lived in the
town with his family.
Since then, actor
Michael Douglas and his wife, academy-award winner Catherine Zeta Jones,
have become Valldemossa's most prominent visitors. Douglas' home, a castle
once owned by the local mistress of an Austrian Archduke, has been featured
in Architectural Digest magazine and is most famous for not having a
downstairs bathroom.
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