On the 8th. November 1838, Frederick Chopin and George Sand arrived in Palma de Mallorca, accompained by her two children, Maurice and Solange. Here, two celebrated individuals, of strong and complex personality and great artistic talent, came into contact with a society, a landscape and a way of life that was completely new to them, and to which they reacted in an ambivalent way. The winter they spent in the Charterhouse in Valldemossa was a time of difficulty and discomfort for them but also of prolific creativity. Winter in Majorca, written by George Sand a few years later, describes the conflictive relationship which the author —flamboyant in her dress and with advanced ideas— established with the Majorcans, who were staunchly conservative by nature; she was enthused by the landscape but, at the same time, suffered from the mutual incomprehension which arose between her and the inhabitants of the island at whom she launched scathing criticism.