- Time of past OR future Camino
- Francés and routes in Andalucia
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It is an urban legend, I am afraid. This article on a website called Galicia Encantada - Enciclopedia de Fantasia Popular de Galicia sheds some light on it and is quite good, I think. It is written by someone from Melide but in Galician and not so easy to understand, even with the help of Google Translate or DeepL (who do only translations from Spanish and Portuguese anyway).guidebook says its Romanesque church doorway served as a model for the illustration on the 10 euro note.
It is an urban legend, I am afraid. This article on a website called Galicia Encantada - Enciclopedia de Fantasia Popular de Galicia sheds some light on it and is quite good, I think.
I had never heard this before. Right from the beginning we were told that the portals, windows and bridges were generic in order to avoid any fuss about national pride, national hurt etc. As the designer Robert Kalina is Austrian, I googled for articles in German, there are plenty of interviews with him but nothing about any specific models.The BBC article says the artist did use actual models for his original submissions. Did you run across anything that tells what he used for the 10 euro note - ie, before the design was modified to be generic?
Right from the beginning we were told that the portals, windows and bridges were generic in order to avoid any fuss about national pride, national hurt etc.
That's what they like to thinkthe image on the €5 note is pretty clearly the Pont du Gard.
This is worth a whole thread. Not to discuss them as models for money, just as beautifully proportioned side-by-side photos. It's an arresting set of images. Thank you, @Kathar1na !And there are plenty of potential other models, here are just four:
What an interesting project that would be for somebody walking a camino - pick an era and take photos of some particular architectural element all along the way and then make a photo gallery that compares them side by side. I wish I had done that this time with Romanesque doorways.This is worth a whole thread. Not to discuss them as models for money, just as beautifully proportioned side-by-side photos. It's an arresting set of images. Thank you, @Kathar1na !
This could also be done as a forum crowd source project.What an interesting project that would be for somebody walking a camino - pick an era and take photos of some particular architectural element all along the way and then make a photo gallery that compares them side by side. I wish I had done that this time with Romanesque doorways.
This could also be done as a forum crowd source project.
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