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Monday 5 April 2021 The Guardian •

World 25 ▼ A photograph by Isabel Muñoz inspired by Goya’s painting Saturno devorando a su hijo, or Devouring his Son (left)

▲ Jean Laurent’s photograph of one of Goya’s , taken Goya in the in 1874

to empower the towns and villages Region in the region.” Last year, ’s socialist-led government acknowledged the problem of la España vaciada – the harnesses hollowed-out Spain – by creating a ministry for what it termed “the demographic challenge”. About 90% of Spain’s population artist to – approximately 42 million people – are squeezed into 1,500 towns and cities that occupy 30% of the land. reverse Not many corners of la España vaciada have a cultural fi gure as titanic as Goya . By the end of the year, Territorio Goya hopes to have decline two cultural projects under way to mark the 275th anniversary of the artist’s birth, and the second PHOTOGRAPHS: TERRITORIO GOYA; CHRISTOPHEL FINE ART/UIG VIA GETTY centenary of the Pinturas Negras  The plan for invoking Goya’s name and legacy (Black Paintings) that he applied to Sam Jones the installation as they try to cling to the map. the walls of the now demolished that will mark The Territorio Goya association Quinta del Sordo near Madrid. the 275th – a group of artists, curators, The fi rst is a reconstruction wo hundred years after anniversary of academics, residents, culture and of the two fl oors of the Quinta he covered the walls of Goya’s birth tourism experts, and specialists del Sordo , with full-scale images his house near Madrid in depopulation – is attempting to of the Black Paintings that were with febrile visions ▼ An artist’s stem the decline of a region with photographed in 1874 before being T of Saturn devouring impression of the just 4.8 inhabitants per square stripped out, transferred to canvas, his son, a witches’ reconstructed kilometre and an annual per capita and ending up the Prado in Madrid. sabbath and a slowly drowning Quinta del Sordo income of about €8,600 (£7,300). “We’re hoping to produce a dog, Francisco de Goya has been “By using the name of Goya, visceral, organic impact in visitors; summoned home to help reverse who was born in this little town a shock,” says Martínez Calzón. the fortunes of the Spanish region near , we’re trying to do The second has involved where he was born in 1746. something a little bit like what commissioning 15 artists to The painter, printmaker and Stratford-upon-Avon has done reinterpret the Black Paintings so chronicler of war , cruelty and with William Shakespeare , or what one can be exhibited in each of the reason’s slumbers , studied in Italy Eisenach has done with Bach , 15 towns and villages in the region. and painted for the court in Madrid or what Figueres has done with While Martínez Calzón wants before dying in Bordeaux in 1828. Salvador Dalí ,” says Julio Martínez to see many more visitors making But he was born in , Calzón , Territorio Goya’s president . the pilgrimage to Fuendetodos, the a small town 27 miles south of “Goya has a profound human, project is also about ensuring that Zaragoza in the north-eastern cultural and social pull because Goya fi nally receives his dues . Spanish region of Arag on. of the circumstances in which he “The idea is to look after the Today, Fuendetodos and the created his works and because of person that Goya was because of 14 other towns and villages that his own capacity to reach people all what he meant to Spain and to the make up the are over the world. We want to use that world,” he says.

The burglars had “pulled her by The burglars broke into the cou- fi nancial deregulation in France. He Disgraced tycoon Tapie and wife the hair because they wanted to ple’s home, a vast estate known as the often fl aunted his wealth, including know where the treasure was,” the Moulin de Breuil, through a fi rst-fl oor by buying a 72-metre yacht and a foot- attacked in burglary near Paris mayor of Combs-la-Ville, Guy Geof- window, undetected by the guards. ball club, Olympique de Marseille . He froy, told AFP. “But of course there They made off with two watches, was briefl y minister for urban aff airs was no treasure, and the fact that including a Rolex, earrings, bracelets in François Mitterrand’s government Four men broke into their house they didn’t fi nd any only made the and a ring, according to a source. in 1992. Agence France-Presse in Combs-la-Ville near Paris around violence worse.” Tapie was a Socialist minister who Tapie was found guilty of cor- Paris 00.30 am (22.30 GMT on Saturday). Her husband, who is 78, was hit rose from humble beginnings to build ruption, tax fraud and misuse of They were beaten and tied up with on the head with a club, the pros- a sporting and media empire, but later corporate assets in a series of cases, The former French minister and scan- electrical cords. Dominique Tapie ecutor Beatrice Angelelli told AFP, ran into a string of legal problems. jailed for five months and was dal-ridden former owner of Adidas managed to free herself and reach a but declined to be taken to hospital. He made a fortune early in his released in 1997. Bernard Tapie and his wife were neighbour to call the police. She was “He is shattered, very tired,” said his career by taking over failing compa- Police are treating the burglary as attacked during a burglary of their taken to hospital with minor injuries grandson, Rodolphe. “He was sitting nies , stripping their assets and selling a violent robbery and kidnapping, a home, police said yesterday. having been struck in the face. on a chair when he was hit .” them for profi t during the years of source told AFP.