Cypsela (Ongoing project)

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Cypsela is the name of a mythological city that, according to Rufus Festus Avienus in verse 521 of his poem Ora Maritima, once stood facing the Medes Islands, in the heart of the Empordà. Avienus, a 4th-century AD writer, was inspired by the account of a Greek navigator from Massalia who, a thousand years earlier, had charted this island on his nautical maps. With the silhouette of Mount Quermany as a backdrop, legend whispers that Cypsela sank forever beneath the waters of the Mediterranean.

But Cypsela is not just a mythical memory. It is also the name of a season: winter in the Empordà. A time of retreat, of stories whispered by the warmth of the hearth. A season of intimacy and introspection, where Cypsela — that dreamed Atlantis — is not a lost land, but rather the very ground we tread each day without even noticing.