This building project was started in 1969 by acclaimed Catalan Architect
Josep Lluís Sert, who was exiled in the
United States at the time, was planned to be a luxury hotel resort complex.
Sert’s clerk of works,
Antonio Ferran signed off on his projects back in
Catalonia to get around the fact that Spain's
fascist government ensured that Sert himself could not be accredited as an architect in the Catalonia & Balearic islands region. By the middle of the 1970s a lot of work had already been completed but project was put on hold, and then abandoned completely after
Sert died of
lung cancer in 1983. In the years following
Sert’s death there have been many proposals and heated debates over what should be done with the half finished project. Many islanders consider the half constructed hotel a blight on an area of outstanding natural beauty while others see the project as an important piece of cultural heritage, since
Sert has now been elevated to one of Catalonia's most acclaimed
architects. In the year 2000 plans were drawn up to complete the complex in the style intended by
Sert, for use as an exclusive tourist attraction and
Thalassotherapy centre. These plans were also eventually abandoned, mainly due to the
2008 financial crisis and the subsequent downturn in the island tourist economy. ==Gallery==