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| | PUERTO RICO HERALD: Catalonia Remembers Pablo Casals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | After leaving his homeland of Spain when Gen. Francisco Franco's rightist forces won the Civil War in 1939, Pablo Casals, the world-famous cellist, dreamed of the day when democracy would be restored and he would return to the charming vacation house he had built decades before in his birthplace, the Catalonian town of El Vendrell. |
 | | He lived in France, the United States and finally Puerto Rico, performing around the world, but he died in 1973, two years before Franco, and he never saw his seaside villa again. |
 | | Most of what is on display in the 17 exhibition areas was donated by his widow, Marta Montáñez, and documents his early life, exile, politics and music. |
| www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2001/vol5n42/CatalCasals-en.shtml (162 words) |
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