"SPANISH" CATHEDRAL (SPAIN): Girona, Catalonia via Collioure France + FREE TRON-LIKE 3D VACATIONS

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"Spanish" cathedrals abound in Catalonia. Girona, Spain 2008 Vacation --

After a 20 E train from Collioure France (April 2008) near the French frontier to meet my friend and 3d art mentor Alain in Girona, Spain, I went to its cathedral to kill time by taking some garden variety photos. But, this cathedral of Gerona, Spain surprised me.


Tonight, in May of 2008, while contemplating the Cathedral's former role in the Spanish Inquisition and its persecution of Jews, I ran across this nice Da Vinci Code-like bit of prose...

Discovering a Forgotten Past In Girona, Spain
by Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer
http://www.travel-watch.com/girona.htm

"...typical scenes of modern city life all stop flat at the River Onyar, a copper-colored band in the hazy morning light. On the other side, the old town of Girona rises from the hillside - a jumble of multi-hued structures, sloping tiled roofs, Romanesque towers, and Gothic spires. The Carrer de la Forca, once part of the ancient Roman route that crossed the Iberian peninsula, begins just beyond the footbridge. It is a narrow and steep cobblestone road leading to even narrower lanes that climb to even steeper heights only to disappear into sudden cul de sacs. Stone buildings, huddled one against the other, hover over the byways. Some are linked to facing buildings, making of the street below a dim and silent tunnel.

"Even by such standards, the Carrer de Sant Llorenc is more a dark alley than a street. Turned into a stairway to ease the pedestrian climb, it levels off at the doorway of a massive building. But beyond the door, the gloom is suddenly lifted as one steps into an airy alcove leading onto a bright, sun-splashed patio. There, flowered vines are cascading down from surrounding balconies. Arched recesses break the stone walls, and a profusion of plants line the gleaming granite floor. It is paved with slabs the color of earth except for the center where white, beige and brown blocks are formed into an enormous Star of David.

"This is the heart of the Call, the legendary medieval Jewish community of Girona where the Kabbalah was first written down. For nearly 500 years, it lay buried, literally sealed off, as houses and streets were, in successive layers, built over it. Now in an ambitious restoration project, Gironans are digging down through levels of construction and back through centuries to unearth a part of Jewish and Catalan history that began at the start of the ninth century, ended at the close of the fifteenth, and then slowly faded from public memory until it was completely forgotten."

Now, I want to go back and search for the Kabbalah!

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[CJMcKinlay]

As a Canadian, I now understand that,

in Spain, after the Civil War / Franco Era, regional pride gained prominence re: national pride.  Thus, Girona's cathedral, is rightfully regarded as Catalan. Spain is a peaceful nation, its varied peoples quite amicable, with some often passionate about such distinctions--

My heart goes out to the Basques, who suffered such horrors in the Franco-Russian bombing of Guernica village etc., that a few recently felt impassioned to commit violence.

[twomuch2004]

It's a Catalan Catheral. In this period Spain didn't exist.

[rioyaque99]

the jews of iberia did very well during the reign of the moor. the jews worked for the moor in many different capacities-treasurer, viziers,etc. the moor did not use the indigenous, native cristianos-the iberians- in this manner but as serfs. the native peoples of oberia were oppressed by moors and their jackals. why is the truth never stated clearly but glossed over with some bullshit about the golden age of muslim spain. it was golden for the foreign moor and alien jew.

[jaumearpa]

Catalian Castilian Euskadi Andalucian Galcian Cantabrian Astur Valencian ALL IS SPANISH Balear Canarian

[onereux]

Thats not a spanish cathedral. thats a catalan one

[ainulatac888]

Spanish? Not at all. Nice video, though.

[twomuch2004]

Spanish Cathedral? it's a Catalan cathedral