How about posting your favorite photo(s) of "unusual" doors on the Camino

[Camino Chrissy]

Hi all! I have enjoyed some of the threads started with photos having a "theme".
I love seeing all the beautiful, quirky, and very old doors we pass by on many of the pilgrimage routes we walk. They often have so much character!
Here's a couple of my many photos to start...

 

[Deleted member 67185]

This one made me think of A Christmas Carol, where Marley's ghost appears on the door knocker.

 

[tomnorth]

 

[Bob Howard]

 

[GlendaMac]

This pleases me no end. I haven’t done my Camino yet, but on my travels always look for interesting, quirky, peculiar doors or doorknockers and have hundreds of pics. Just another thing to look forward to next year

 

[Camino Chrissy]

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Quirky to the max!

 

[Camino Chrissy]

 

[mette]

Here are some of mine

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Mette, they are wonderful! Your last photo reminds me of this, but hey, where's the door!

 

[Pelegrin]

Mette, they are wonderful! Your last photo reminds me of this, but hey, where's the door!
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I don"t know yours but I think Mette's pic is the only one taken in Galicia so far.

 

[Morning Waters]

My favorites from the CP

 

[Peggy and David]

Great color!

 

[Turga]

 

[Steve900Hiker]

Church in Leon.

 

[KinkyOne]

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/doors.22222/

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Wow, Peter, both are absolutely stunning and unique! Can you tell us where they are located?

 

[mspath]

Villalcazar de Sirga, 2011, 6 November

 

[Bob Howard]

 

[Former member 42123]

Hi all! I have enjoyed some of the threads started with photos having a "theme".
I love seeing all the beautiful, quirky, and very old doors we pass by on many of the pilgrimage routes we walk. They often have so much character!
Here's a couple of my many photos to start...
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I walked briefly last year with two Swedes,one of whom was by trade a painter. He could not understand how anyone could leave so many doors without a coat of paint.He could not share our love of the doors as they were.

 

[biped]

Love this thread! I always take pictures of interesting doors when traveling. I had to restrain myself here!

 

[Camino Chrissy]

 

[Bob Howard]

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I posted this yesterday, but forgot to include the text. I'm thinking most of the veterans will recognize this door. Do you?

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I posted this yesterday, but forgot to include the text. I'm thinking most of the veterans will recognize this door. Do you?

No, I don't recognize it, but with the chicken etched on it, could it be in Santo Domingo?

 

[Bob Howard]

No, I don't recognize it, but with the chicken etched on it, could it be in Santo Domingo?

No, not Santo Domingo. Although not everyone, but a lot of people who overnight in this particular hamlet will have walked through that door.

 

[KinkyOne]

I'll post them here counting on the fact that more people will see them here than in my old(er) thread.

These are from my Camino de Madrid in 2014...

 

[Camino Chrissy]

What a nice variety of doors, Kinky. I really like the close ups of metal handles and locks.I'll copy you and get a few close ups next time.

 

[Terry Callery]

This was taken in Ferrol at the start of the Ingles Route March 2019 Great Victorian door knocker!
Terence Callery

 

[Annapolis]

 

[KinkyOne]

Few more from CF (first one) and Invierno in 2014...

 

[KinkyOne]

Levante & Sanabres (2015), Part 1...

 

[KinkyOne]

Levante & Sanabres (2015), Part 2...

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Thank you, Kinky, for delighting us who are viewing this thread with so many wonderful pictures! I'm sure they evoke some very special memories for you!

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

Wow, Peter, both are absolutely stunning and unique! Can you tell us where they are located?

Barcelona.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Barcelona.

Ohh, maybe I'll see them when I go in October!

 

[MikeJS]

This was one of my favourites - not a whole door….

 

[gersevink]

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[vwzoo]

In Granon, the door to albergue I spent the night.

 

[shubertj]

Obviously a favorite of mine.

 

[RumAndChupacabras]

LUV the iron work!

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

Santiago De Compostela..

 

[Deleted member 73526]

I've read that hand-shaped door knockers originally represented the hand of Fatima; a symbol with protective significance in Arabic and Berber culture.

 

[mette]

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Those are nice, they look like they fit Hobbit size like me

 

[Theresa Brandon]

Not quite a doorway:

 

[Latecomer]

 

[Camino Chrissy]

 

[DenWhite]

SdC July 2018 somewhere not far from the cathedral.

 

[Peregrinopaul]

The inspirational albergue at Fuenterroble on the VDLP

 

[David Tallan]

This isn't necessarily my favourite. It's too much to ask to choose one. I'll have to post a few doors over the next little while. It is the first I came across as I dipped into my Camino photos. It is the Door of Forgiveness in Vilafranca del Bierzo. Pilgrims whose infirmity made it impossible to proceed all the way to Santiago de Compostela could walk through this door and receive the same blessings that they would have, had they completed their Camino, it was said.

 

[Anniesantiago]

Cigunuela on the Camino Madrid

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

Santiago de Compostela.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Santiago de Compostela.
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Peter, you must stay at the Ritz Carlton, those doors are gorgeous!

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

Peter, you must stay at the Ritz Carlton, those doors are gorgeous!

Thanks , it's in the Rua do Vilar.

 

[David Tallan]

Not fancy, or indeed terribly unusual in that section of the Camino, but I liked it.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

They have their own special type of beauty. I appreciate them, too. These are on the Le Puy route.

 

[David Tallan]

 

[GPeachy]

I'm always drawn to color, statues or inscriptions.

 

[David Tallan]

Not your typical hotel doorway...

 

[Mark Barnes]

Leon Cathedral door 2017

 

[Deleted member 76633]

The first door?

 

[Kiernan]

This is an "unusual" one

 

[David Tallan]

This door was well decorated for a camino, although perhaps not as historic as some.