«Here is paradise»

Marco Noris · 21.08.2020 · Last update: 17.06.2026 · Translation: Claude (Anthropic) · Topics: grand tour, grand tour 2020, walking, paradise, pallars

And yesterday we entered channel 34, shifting dimension in the quantum space of maps. It’s the thirteenth day of the Grand Tour 2020.

We’re in the Pallars Sobirà, further north of La Pobla de Segur. The paths are now waymarked; you can feel the change of territory, for the mountain draws another kind of walker. The group keeps changing, growing little by little. Yesterday we crossed the Serra de Perecalç, passing through a fold in reality. In the village we met Pedro, a being who, like a tree or a church, connects heaven and earth: «here is paradise», he said when he saw us. Pedro of ancient eyes, who mends the bell tower of the ruined church and who pointed us to the gates of paradise.

And so it was, a descent into paradise, along a fairy-tale path through the Obaga de Canals. The path is especially beautiful and the forest a magical place. Today the group is different; the walking changes and opens to the connection with the whole. We shared food with a young black cat –perhaps a witch’s helper or a guardian of the forest–, who shows us the way, running alongside us for a stretch. The sun shines, spreading its rays among the branches of lo Bosquàs beside the Font de Reguerot, and a fairy in the shape of a butterfly dances around Imma, thanking her for her offering. Far off, among the forest fronds, the hermitage of Santa Anna — on our personal map, the house of the witch of Cortscastell.

← →

Drifts

News

«Here is paradise»

Drifts

«Registres dels nostres caminars» — Marco Noris EN RESiDÈNCiA at the Institut Escola Trinitat Nova

Marco Noris in El Temps · Wandering as art

Chronicle of the Siurana Traverse

Priorat Dibuixa at The Open Shore (La vora oberta)

Walking towards a deep humanity (Noris, Pacheco González, 2025)

Reception of the «Sequere» project in La Seu d’Urgell

Between two waters (Martínez Vilalta, 2025)

La vora oberta (The Open Shore). Isabelle Meyer Prize 2025

The route as a sign

Sequere, toponyms

Sequere Maps

Cartography of experience

Border landscapes

The Open Shore (La vora oberta)

Impossible Territories

Museu de Camins, Fórmula Mutare

Lloc, lluny, llar

La Pell de la Terra

On the Border

Within the Skin of the Earth

Envall notebooks

Night Maps of the Coma de Burg

Memories and Imprints of the Coma de Burg

Lighting the void (Enllumenant el buit)

Renewing the gaze

Book launch: “550 Days in Tírvia. Writings (1953–1955)” by Gil López García

Body Ebro, day 68

Body Ebro in Zaragoza: the river becomes a community body

Body Ebro, day 36

The project Cos d’Ebre (Body-Ebro) begins

The rhythm of the body

Wounded territory

Marco Noris with Museu de Camins in the book “La fórmula Mutare: Cómo la cultura transforma” by Fundació Carulla

La Mata

May 18, 2024: talk at the Museu Hidroelèctric de Capdella for International Museum Day

Sensory walk along the Segre River in Lleida

Vall Fosca, autumn 2023

La Entrega - Act I

Presentation of the Travessa Sequere process (El Born CCM, 2023)

Walking in the tunnel

Lecture at the Escola Massana

In-mobile journeys (Sant Pol de Mar)

The Portillón route

Walking the Pyrenees — Fundación Hospital de Benasque

“The Skin” of Marco Noris (Mañà, 2022)

The Sequere project and the Tosquellian walks — Grup Pere Mata

Walking the Pyrenees — CDAN, Huesca

Sequere, a project on memory and territory

Lecture at the UAB

On the presentation at Nau Côclea

Presentation of «Lloc, lluny, llar / Grand Tour 2020»

«Lloc, lluny, llar» on Núvol

On Mediation <eye-framing=OM7>

Anna Adell on A*Desk: «A high-mountain flâneur, Marco Noris»

A high mountain flâneur, Marco Noris (Adell, 2020)

Grand Tour 2020

Beca Walter Benjamin 2020

On the back of winter

Sort, Autumn Fair (2018)

«La Entrega» in Guillem Serra’s article (Ara newspaper)

«Art and Nature in Creation 2018» grant for «La Entrega»

Art and Memory — «On the Border» at the MuME (La Jonquera)

On the Border - Barcelona Producció 2017