Fernando de Vilallonga at the airport of Milan, 1965.Fernando de Vilallonga (first on the left) with Salvador Dalí and his secretary John Peter Moore. Dalí sponsored the airfield of Empuriabrava, 1965.Fernando de Vilallonga (first on the right) next to the then Prince, Juan Carlos I, in the presentation of the Aeroclub d’Empúriabrava in the late 60s.In 1970, the Minister of Information and Tourism back then, Pio Cabanillas, visited the mountain of Montjuïc in Girona, where Fernando de Vilallonga would develop what is nowadays known as Montjuïc residential area. In the picture, we can see the Minister Pio Cabanillas and Fernando de Vilallonga, surrounded by the civil governor and the mayor of Girona, Mr Anguera and Mr de Ribot.The Minister Pio Cabanillas (in the centre) together with the civil governor of Girona, Mr Victorino Anguera and Fernando de Vilallonga in their visit to the castle of Montjuïc. This visit took place as they were considering it as a possible location for a Parador Nacional, after the donation of Fernando de Vilallonga to the gipsy community of Girona, who used to live in shacks in the castle, of 400 homes in the Gironan district of Vilarroja, thus ending the slum issue in the city.
