Ernest Costa Savoia Fonds

The Ernest Costa Savoia fonds (Bescanó, 1940) comprises 15,246 images resulting from the digitization of analog photographs taken by Ernest Costa Savoia, photographer and naturalist writer, with a special focus on the countryside and the architectural heritage of the Catalan Countries.

Ernest Costa Ernest Costa has published in and contributed to newspapers and magazines such asAvui (50 reports on little-known places in the Catalan Countries), El Temps, Presència and Compartir Muntanya. He has provided the content for numerous television series and radio programs about Catalonia: Geografia de Catalunya (TVE-2, 1985) and Paisatges al punt (Catalunya Ràdio, 1999-2002). He has written more than a dozen books, including Viatges amb els pastors transhumants: Per les cabaneres de la Catalunya nord-occidental entre l'Éssera i el Segre (1987), Els paisatges i el temps: El territori català al llarg de l'any (2004) and Pous de neu i glaç (2016).

The most noteworthy aspect of this fonds are the reports published in the magazine Descobrir Catalunya and ones about parks in the metropolitanan area of Barcelona. In addition, the fonds includes social and labor issues.

Fitxa del fons

Àrea d'identificació
IF-de referència
CAT INSPAI 43

Nivell de descripció
Fons

Títol
Ernest Costa Savoia Fonds

Data/es
Dates of creation and addition: 1962-2014

Volum i suport
15,246 digital images. Magnetic support, dimensions: 4724 × 4724 pixels, data format: Uncompressed TIFF; color depth: 16 bits per channel; capture resolution: 400 dpi; memory volume: 125MB.
Àrea de contingut i estructura

Ernest Costa Savoia¿s collection reflects the geography, in particular the natural surroundings, and the architectural heritage of different places: Catalonia (with particular attention paid to Pla de l'Estany and the other Girona counties), the Catalan Countries and, to a lesser extent, France, Italy and Switzerland. It also addresses some social and labor issues. Its timeline is from 1962 to 2014.

The reports published in the magazine Descobrir Catalunya and the ones on parks and gardens within the metropolitan area of Barcelona are the most important.

Àrea de documentació relacionada

The producer of the fonds has the rest of the photographs that have not been digitized (for this reason there are no digital copies at the centre) as well as notebooks with annotations regarding subject matter, keywords and records.

Imatges del fons