No. My theory is that nobody does the Camino twice. Some people do it once, and that’s enough, they never do it again. Others do it a second time, then a third time, then a fourth and just keep going back. And you can guess which category most of...
I was in the cathedral of Siena and while waiting in line to get in, I asked what the “opera” was, as it was showing up on modern signs, and if I understood correctly, the word is still being used at that cathedral for the administration that...
I am glad you opened this thread, @dick bird. I was about to do something similar myself!
I was born and lived in Rome for about half my life. I don't know if you've ever been there but the city obviously has a patchwork of western architectural...
dick bird,
Thanks for your video and sharing your wonderful memories.
In graduate school 60 years ago I attended courses by the great art/architecture historian Meyer Schapiro. Several erudite lectures focused on the architecture along the...
One of the few advantages of Covid, for me at least, was that being unable to walk the camino I was forced to read and learn about it and so I came to the Romanesque, a term used to refer to early Mediaeval architecture. It is really a misnomer...
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