Two photographs, two landscapes, but both of the same place. They are separated by only 10 seconds, those ten seconds when explosives changed 47 years of an exclusive landscape that made Platja de Pals so different from any other stretch of beach in the area. This was a stretch of beach that always attracted quality tourism, persons, families, and groups looking for culture, not just water, sand and sun. But no longer.  Now, this once singular beach front is like all the rest, reverting to what many in the area wanted, a place without a museum, without history, without quality. It is no longer the Platja de Pals the rest of us wanted. Now, it is nothing more than water, sand, and sun.

The upper photo was given by Joan R.O.