aTravelogue.com » gargoyles http://www.atravelogue.com A chronicle of Ken and Irene Broman's continuing travel adventures Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:13:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Whimisical Gargoyles http://www.atravelogue.com/in-lively-salamanca-spain-even-the-architecture-is-animated-washingtonpost-com/ http://www.atravelogue.com/in-lively-salamanca-spain-even-the-architecture-is-animated-washingtonpost-com/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:45:44 +0000 Ken Broman http://www.atravelogue.com/?p=507 From the Washington Post article on Salamanca:

We thought we’d been tricked. After studying the leaves and vines carved around the west door of Salamanca’s New Cathedral for 10 minutes, we still couldn’t locate the astronaut, the monkey with an ice cream cone or the stork carrying a branch in its beak. We decided that the purported carvings were urban legends, most likely concocted as a joke on gullible tourists.

Gargoyles are some of my favorite things to photograph, so you can bet I’ll be looking for these when we are in Salamanca in a few months.

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