Camino de Nuevo York

[scruffy1]

The Better Half just returned from New York City, monster snow storm but she was staying just across the street from the Metropolitan Museum, open and warm! All you New Yorkers and those stopping over on the way, The Camino Starts in the Metropolitan Museum!

 

[HeidiL]

And at the Cloisters. Some excellent Spanish church art there as well!

 

[Anemone del Camino]

The Cloisters, absolutely. Pre-Romanic chapel that feels like a peaceful atrium, lots of saints with clearly chopped off heads from morish swords. Gorgoeous alabaster pieces. Not easy to understand directions when t'you leave the subway stations and locals have no clue what is only 500 m. away: cross the street towards the hill and just go up, up, and up! You'll get there.

 

[peregrina2000]

Scruffy, I must have missed your better half by a few days. I was there in early January, warm temperatures, great for walking. And we did go up to the Cloisters. Anemone, I took the subway and it is now all extremely well marked, with specific Cloisters signs as you left.

Kind of felt like walking through Catalunya last summer and coming across all these lovely Romanesque churches and clositers. And this gorgeous Santiago statute kind of knocks your socks off. (It looks like the same one you have in your picture, Scruffy, but the background is clearly different -- do you think there's a duplicate down at the main Metropolitan Museum? Or perhaps one of these is a copy?)