Vino Tinto topples Church!

[RENSHAW]

This is what the Church DID look like at Bercianos Del Real Camino more than 10 years ago.

Note the quaint bodegas just below the Church tower. After a more than average period of rain , the bodegas collapsed taking the entire church down with it.

The evils of drink! :twisted:

the Paroquial Albergue is Still standing though - hundreds of years old - very nice place to stay.

 

[Rebekah Scott]

Had I known those doors were going begging, I would have spirited them away in the night, as they are gorgeous. As it is, my purview is eastward. I do not know Bercianos very well. (It is hard work, being a hermit. Everyone expects you to know stuff.)

So I asked around.
The church is not there any more because it was falling down, and has been for a very long time. It had a fatal structural flaw of some kind and had become an "attractive nuisance," with curious pilgrims climbing dangerously around on it and a great infestation of pigeons and critters. The doors in question were infested with woodworm. And if you take something from a church, even a de-consecrated church, it´s Big Karma for you, pal. (aside from that, around here there is a real respect for the property of others, even the falling-down, abandoned property of others. We have a "fabrica de luz" in our neighborhood with beautiful hydraulic-tile floors, which are disappearing under the collapsing building. No one will touch the place, the firewood-ready timbers, the tiles, the perfectly-useable adobes. If it does not belong to you, you leave it alone. Unless you are a gypsy, it is assumed.)

Thank you for sharing these pics. The big palomar in St. Nicolas disappeared this week, too.