More Catalan footprints in Australia: the Paronellas

Josep Paronella and his wife Margarita - I imagine the first photo was taken for their wedding, in 1925! - were not a classic Catalan couple. He'd been working - and saving money - in Australia for 12 years, as explained here, when he returned to Catalonia to court a Catalan girl...

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The Catalan Footprint in Australia / L'Empremta Catalana a Austràlia

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..."From that day, I met more than 30 people from Catalan descent in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. They kindly opened their doors and unveiled their family secrets. I am enormously grateful to every single one of them for sharing such treasures with the rest of the world." Lluïsa Vilalta, project director ...

Caga tió in Queensland

Margaret, Peter, Teresa Tapiolas, Dianne, Bruno Tapiolas, Louise, Stephen, Terese, Grant, Mary Anne and Ines kick the log with a stick every Christmas to preserve the Catalan tradition. (Photo: 1961)