Tuesday, February 03, 2004
Logroño is located in the middle of three regions, these being Aragón, Navarra and Castilla/León. The town is in the Rioja region of Spain and the River Ebro flows through the town. There is a lot of history in Logroño, and well okay it starts off with Sancho Garcés de Navarra and Orduño II de León taking it back from the dirty muslim hordes (weather or not they were dirty is completely subjective but it sounded good..dagummit!) When those two people took the land they started planting stuff and found out that the land there was very nice and fertile for growing stuff so it became valuable. People started to take notice of this and over the next centuries many kings from the different regions fought to gain control of Logroño, and it was one of the most contested lands in all of Spain.
There are nine monuments that the book says pilgrims should go see while visiting the lovely town…and they are:
1. The Bridge of Logroño. It was originally built in the 11th century by Alfonso IV but yeah the most recent remix of the bridge is from the 19th century.
2. Walls and the Puerta del Camino. The old city plan which shows that it was in fact a medieval town can be seen from the walls and stuff in the town. Isn’t that just wonderful.
3. La Iglesia de Nuesta Señora del Palacio (o Santa María la Real). Its from the 12th century. And I her its quite lovely this time of year…indulgences are 25% off.
4. La Iglesia de Santa María la Redonda. This church has a history behind it, but what I got out of it was that it shares a Bishop with two other churches in Spain and it’s the only part of Spain that does this…I mean on Bishop three churches that’s a lot of alter boys…oh never mind.
5. La Iglesia de San Bartolomé, this church was constructed in both, hold onto your seat now, Romanesque AND Gothic styles. Talk about exciting, the bell tower faces the river and was once destroyed and is now rebuilt, those wacky Spaniards always destroying and rebuilding things.
6. La Iglesia de Santiago Real, now this church is exciting in that above its entrance it has not one, but TWO images of our favorite Saint. Right above the door it has St. James the pilgrim with his hat and walking stick and above that St. James there is another image of him…is of the badass St. James, Santiago Matamoros! Notice how he has a horse and a sword and there are dead muslims at the feet of his mighty steed. Watch out for that guy!
7. El Convento de La Merced. It was built in the 16th century but now its like the government house of la Rioja.
8. El Palacio de Espartero, okay this General Espartero had this big mansion type house that was filled with art works from different times and what have you, so when he retired he lived there and enjoyed the plunders of his military days. Now his crib is on display with all of his collections as the Provincial Museum of la Rioja.
9. Finally the Casa de la Inquisición, well I hope you know what that was al about, but the building where all the atrocities of the inquisition occurred is now a public library (I hear it isn’t as nice as the Anderson branch though).
Well best friend I hope this was informative and helpful. Good luck with the test on Thursday and try to get some sleep.
There are nine monuments that the book says pilgrims should go see while visiting the lovely town…and they are:
1. The Bridge of Logroño. It was originally built in the 11th century by Alfonso IV but yeah the most recent remix of the bridge is from the 19th century.
2. Walls and the Puerta del Camino. The old city plan which shows that it was in fact a medieval town can be seen from the walls and stuff in the town. Isn’t that just wonderful.
3. La Iglesia de Nuesta Señora del Palacio (o Santa María la Real). Its from the 12th century. And I her its quite lovely this time of year…indulgences are 25% off.
4. La Iglesia de Santa María la Redonda. This church has a history behind it, but what I got out of it was that it shares a Bishop with two other churches in Spain and it’s the only part of Spain that does this…I mean on Bishop three churches that’s a lot of alter boys…oh never mind.
5. La Iglesia de San Bartolomé, this church was constructed in both, hold onto your seat now, Romanesque AND Gothic styles. Talk about exciting, the bell tower faces the river and was once destroyed and is now rebuilt, those wacky Spaniards always destroying and rebuilding things.
6. La Iglesia de Santiago Real, now this church is exciting in that above its entrance it has not one, but TWO images of our favorite Saint. Right above the door it has St. James the pilgrim with his hat and walking stick and above that St. James there is another image of him…is of the badass St. James, Santiago Matamoros! Notice how he has a horse and a sword and there are dead muslims at the feet of his mighty steed. Watch out for that guy!
7. El Convento de La Merced. It was built in the 16th century but now its like the government house of la Rioja.
8. El Palacio de Espartero, okay this General Espartero had this big mansion type house that was filled with art works from different times and what have you, so when he retired he lived there and enjoyed the plunders of his military days. Now his crib is on display with all of his collections as the Provincial Museum of la Rioja.
9. Finally the Casa de la Inquisición, well I hope you know what that was al about, but the building where all the atrocities of the inquisition occurred is now a public library (I hear it isn’t as nice as the Anderson branch though).
Well best friend I hope this was informative and helpful. Good luck with the test on Thursday and try to get some sleep.
