La Boqueria in Barcelona has fired Juan Bayén, the legendary proprietor of the Pinotxo bar who died final Tuesday on the age of 89. A life devoted to his emblematic institution on Las Ramblas, which has paid him the final tribute with the arrival of the hearse on the essential gate of the Catalan market.
His wake started on Wednesday at 3:10 p.m. on the Sancho de Ávila funeral house and this Thursday they held the ceremony, after which the hearse traveled to La Boqueria. In this fashion, retailers and residents have been capable of say goodbye to ‘Juanito’ round 2:00 p.m., when the coffin has arrived.
Later they learn some dedications and to complete they performed the tune ‘Barcelona’, by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé, “his favourite tune”. Bayén had been working on the bar since he was 7 years previous and determined to retire a month and a half in the past. A choice that began a household dispute that ended within the switch of the famend enterprise.
The Espai Boqueria, a room for coaching and dissemination of the market, has transformed its area right into a room to recollect ‘Pinotxo’ till Friday, the place they’ve positioned a big {photograph} and 88 white roses.
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In addition, on May 3 the determine of Joan Bayén can be introduced on the Nou Museu de Cera in Barcelona, a piece that was commissioned six months in the past by the Association of Market Merchants from the British artist Michael Wade.
Bayén will thus be part of the ‘Mestres de la Cuina’ room, alongside essentially the most consultant figures of Catalan delicacies corresponding to Ferran Adrià, Carme Ruscalleda, Jordi Cruz or the Roca brothers.
“It is the Boqueria’s tribute to Bayén, a determine to make the function of ‘Pinotxo’ endure as the most effective ambassador of market gastronomy and of Barcelona”, underlines the market.
The e-book ‘La Boqueria del Juanito’
Also on May 3, the e-book ‘La Boqueria del Juanito’ can be introduced to the market, which explains the historical past of Bayén by way of “a leisurely tour, in stills, of his private development”, which he defines as pure sympathy, kindness, happiness and goodness.
The e-book consists of texts by Inés Butrón, Àlex Aguilar, Carla Alpeñés and Félix Montero; the pictures by Josep Rodenas and the drawings by Javier Mariscal, Óscar Nebreda and Montse Fransoy; and from this Wednesday it may be bought on the Boqueria data level and in the marketplace’s web site.
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