Sunday, October 22, 2017

Monastery Of St. Peter of Rhodes, 2

Continuing our visit to the 9th century monastery of St. Peter of Rhodes, near Port Selva, Spain...
In the crypt

Emerging therefrom

Cloister

Capitals, definitely and beautifully Romanesque

Love this stuff

Refectory, now a classroom for cultural events

El Camino...

Porter's quarters

Staircase up the bell tower

View of cloister

Keep; so interesting the monastery would have a keep,
particularly with the fortress just up the hill; yet...9th
century...most of Europe had not yet emerged from the
predations of the Vikings, pirates, Moors, brigands of
other descriptions...Dark Ages

In the Keep

Looking up toward the fortress ruins

Port de Selva

Handy map of the area

Bell tower


Looking downhill toward the parking lot and our camper

Wild porcine pups on the grounds

Spare parts

Two towers


1 comment:

Tawana said...

I have never heard of this place. So glad you stopped and took such great photos.