Still en route to the Boi Valley was the hill-top and wall-girted town of Ainsa (thanks again, Jane), with its nice and reasonably-priced
aire. We explored and spent the night; for a buck fifty.
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Increasingly vertical terrain |
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Tower and haze |
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Part of Ainsa's defensive wall; and terrain |
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Main square |
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Ambience; not unknown to tour buses |
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Tower of the little parish Romanesque church |
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Inside the church, 12th century, my guess |
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A good case in point about why they invented Gothic |
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But wait! There's a Divine Illumination Machine (DIM)! We've seen these all over Italy, where you get a minute for a euro; here, you get 5 minutes of light AND five minutes of Gregorian Chant! Top that, Italy! (But not in English too) |
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The little cloister, part pointy, part Romanesque |
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Crypt; cryptic |
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Not so many of the funny face sculptors got here |
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Barrel vaulting; friction and gravity...and maybe a little mortar |
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I can't believe I did not take a picture when the lights were on; sometimes you just get carried away... |
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Next morning, at the aire |
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Surroundings...well into the Pyrenees now |
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Moving along, we are struck by how much the terrain resembles the American Southwest |
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Water feature |
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Rockfall barrier |
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Reservoirs all over in and near the mountains |
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