{"id":2209,"date":"2011-03-28T20:31:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T02:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/impressions\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2015-05-14T16:11:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T22:11:49","slug":"spain-girona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/2011\/03\/28\/spain-girona\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain 2011 – Girona"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the 8th day of our trip we investigated Girona. We stayed at Etap Hotel – wanted to drive to the center and tried to – but no parking space though there we so many and big parking areas around their central gloomy park – not a single free space there. So we drove back to the hotel, left the car there and walked 20 min to the old town which met us with this view:
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It has a very Spanish shape of a town, as far as I already notices. The cathedral high up on a hill – not so easy to access… :-), I wonder how older people attend a mass there. Also – their church towers look mostly as if someone has cut their top or as if they ran out of time or material to finish it, but I guess – that is the style.<\/p>\n

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So we wandered in the medieval stone streets all over till we got to the Jewish quarter and the Cathedral there. Again – somehow historically there were Jewish quarters in almost every medieval center of the towns we visited. Why where they all pushed away (because I read stories that they were) -I don’t have the answer, I must read more about it…<\/p>\n

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I recently read in www.Delfi.lt that Zanzibar in Africa is an stone city. I would argue – not only.<\/p>\n

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Yes, and as most of the towns we visited – it is like a fortress, surrounded with castle walls.<\/p>\n

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It was fun to wander in such settings with almost no people at all. We found a St. Narcisus grave somewhere. maybe in some little church. Who was St. Narcisus – I have no clue, I only know the legend that Narcisus was very handsome, so he sat on a lake looking at his image and was admiring himself so much. that he turned into the flower:<\/p>\n

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Somehow I have a felling that this particular St. Narcisus has nothing to do with the flower or his image. i also noticed by this time that Spanish like having either dead Christ in a realistic pose lying in their altar, or other saints in or on their coffins – a coffin theme in their decors is very prominent.<\/p>\n

Here, wow, the stairs to the Cathedral – wonderful stairs!<\/p>\n

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from this joy we started taking pictures of ourselves :-), as if trying to tell the world- we were here!<\/p>\n

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Then we visited the Cathedral museum with its cloister:<\/p>\n

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The columns were very elaborate:<\/p>\n

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the museum itself:<\/p>\n

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the most precious artifact in the museum is the 11th ! century embroidery “The Creation of the World”:<\/p>\n

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The Cathedral has the widest Nave in the world!<\/p>\n

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and then outside:<\/p>\n

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the interesting point about this photo is that only now while looking through pictures I noticed that long tailed lizard playfully landed on the roof in the middle. While over there – we didn’t even notice it. Creative Spaniards.<\/p>\n

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Then we descended through narrow stone streets, which looked one nicer that the other, especially because they were empty from cars!<\/p>\n

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And we landed at the river front where we had a very tasty meal as they call it “menu dia” – we could choose two plates of whatever was offered and one pastry or sweet plate, plus a drink. The restaurant was on the side of the old town on this river, very strategically called “Selfe Serve”:<\/p>\n

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After lunch we walked a little to the right side of the old town and here we saw the stairs to the city wall – as my mom noticed – for free! They have been to Dubrovnik, much shorter walk on the city walls over there is far from free. So what could we do -we had to climb and walk…:-)<\/p>\n

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As you can see -it was a scary walk – the wall is so narrow and so high…<\/p>\n

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but very beautiful:<\/p>\n

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And here is the last picture of one of their central squares:<\/p>\n

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There is much more of beautiful Girona. But we saw it in the evening, in the rain, so no pictures. We even had a wonderful chance to listen to an Armenian pianist Gerard Gasparian in their Casa Cultura de Cultura. My advice -go to the center not of the old town, but of the new town on this side of the street – find the information center in Seu Generalitat de Catalunya right in front of Casa de Cultura – and go from there.<\/p>\n

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On the 8th day of our trip we investigated Girona. We stayed at Etap Hotel – wanted to drive to the center and tried to – but no parking space though there we so many and big parking areas around their central gloomy park – not a single free space there. So we drove back … Continue reading Spain 2011 – Girona<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","category-travel-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4311,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions\/4311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}