A white house beneath an intense blue sky, the chicken coop in the background, farm tools, vegetation and life all around. This is how Joan Miró portrays Mas Miró in oil, the place where he made the decision to devote his life fully to painting.

 

Although the painter was born in Barcelona and died in Palma, he spent long periods in the family home, located on the outskirts of Mont-roig del Camp. It is here that he allowed himself to be captivated by rural life and established his bond with the Catalan countryside, which would forever mark the character of the artist and, in turn, his work as a painter.
 

Mas Miró comprises the set of satellite buildings around a farmhouse in the colonial-style, built at different times between the 18th and 20th centuries. The visit to the complex, listed as a Cultural Asset of National Interest, allows you to enter the artist's studio, discover his sketches and materials, tour the garden in which the chicken coop, the chapel, the agricultural land and the farmyard are preserved.
 

A walk through this environment – taking advantage, if you wish, of the activities offered by the Mas Miró Foundation - is the ideal experience in which to discover the cradle of the symbolic style that today we all recognize as belonging to Miró and which made him into one of the most important painters of the 20th century.