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This project has counted on the support of the fishing and restaurant communities of the neighbourhood. Interviews have been held with people working on the sea, and in the world of fish and seafood cuisine: skippers, cooks, and current restaurant owners.

The collection ‘Petit Museu’ forms part of the project, started in autumn 2011, with the title, ‘The Serrallo, a place for stories: the memory of the fishers’. This initiative of the Public Library of Tarragona in collaboration with the Port Museum of Tarragona has the aim of recovering the intangible heritage of the Serrallo, Tarragona’s Port neighbourhood.
 

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L'ABRIL I L'ÈRIC, DE CAL BALLARÍ, VIUEN LA FESTA DEL CARME. Tradició i cultura popular del Serrallo

Description

We finish the collection dedicated to the Serrallo with Abril and Èric, brothers, who participate for the first time in the festival of Carmen, patron saint of the sea. As children, they accompanied the grandfather to the procession by sea of the Virgin of Carmen and, now, with the family, friends and friends are part of the different entities of the neighborhood. Giants, Boys, Timbalers, Castellers, Devils, Brotherhoods... neighbors through tradition and popular culture integrate the Seguici del Serrallo

VICENTA, LA PEIXETERA, VENEDORA DE PEIX A TARRAGONA.

Description

After explaining the types of fisheries we now explain the auction of the fish and its sale to the fishmongers of the market. A trade, traditionally, at the hands of the women that Vicenta tells us how she began and the great party of her retirement at the stop where she gave the culinary recipes of the Serrallo kitchen to her clientele.

JOSEP, EL LLUCET, PESCADOR DE PALANGRE. UNA DE LES ARTS MENORS DEL SERRALLO.

Description

Traditionally we talk about longlin hake due to its good quality and appearance thanks to the type of fishing; longlin. In this story we talk about this fishery and also about the presence of loggerhead turtles on our Miracle beach.

DOLORES, LA REMENDADORA, REMALLA XARXES VORA MAR. El treball de la dona al Serrallo.

(DOLORES, THE NET-MENDER, SEWING NEXT TO THE SEA. Women’s work in the Serrallo)

Description

The work carried out by women in the Serrallo is explaied by Dolores, the repairer of nets. While the men go to sea to catch fish, the women repaired equipment and made tools for different types of fishing, as well as doing the housework and looking after the children. But not all boys could go to sea, and some of them stay on land, helping to repair the nets.

EN JOAN, EL SEITONET, PESCADOR DE NIT. Anar a la llum al Serrallo.

(JOHN, THE LITTLE ANCHOVY, NIGHT FISHER)

Description

Night fishing, using the encircling technique, is the theme of the third story of the Petit Museu collection. John, ‘The Little Anchovy, is a boy in charge of a boat with lights, and the story explains the dreams he has one night about dolphins, while the fish enter the nets.

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EN RAMON, EL RANXERO, DE PESCADOR A CUINER. La cuina de barca al Serrallo.

(RAMON, THE RANCH-HAND, FROM FISHERMAN TO COOK)

Descripció

Ramon the ranch-hand is the main character of this story, dedicated to cuisine. The boy’s grandfather, having been a sailor himself, is now the cook at the restaurant ‘El Romesco’. In this restaurant, Ramon spends many a long afternoon listening to sea stories, and how his grandfather learnt to make romesco sauce and fish dishes.

EN PERE, EN VERMELL, ES FA A LA MAR, COM MANAR UNA BARCA AL SERRALLO.

(PETER, THE RED, GOES TO SEA, LIKE SENDING A BOAT TO THE SERRALLO )

Description

This is the story of a boy who wants to be a sailor, like his father, a skipper. One day, a net gets caught up in the propeller of the boat and the boy falls into the sea, still wearing his waterproof coat. No matter how hard he tries, he cannot swim back to the boat, so he takes off the red waterproof coat, a present from his mother, in order to be able to swim back to the boat, and safety.

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