Fisterra Mystery Structures

Tue Aug 27 21:37:19 PDT 2002

dear,e.o.
  thanks for the info. did you do the walk from saint jean fr.? how was
it? i depart sept 10 + -.
  truly kit............

> <html><div style='background-color:'><P>Anyone who has been to the lighthouse at land's end in Fisterra (Finisterra) recently has probably been puzzled by the strange concrete structures on the steep cliff just below the road.&nbsp; We speculated they were radar installations or perhaps coastal fortifications when walking the road last autumn.&nbsp; The mystery is resolved in the current issue of <EM>Progressive Architecture </EM>with the structures pictured on its cover: they are burial chambers for the local cemetery.&nbsp; The story, with pictures, is&nbsp;worth a glance.</P>
> <P>On a similar photographic note, yesterday I discovered a wonderful book of photographs showing sites along the traditional camino routes in France and Spain.&nbsp; Compiled in the early 1960s, before the Camino again became a popular pilgrimage route and before France and especially Spain became rich, the photos are historical documents as well as a record of scenes along the Camino.&nbsp; The book was originally published in Germany, and if you have a good library nearby I recommend looking it up.</P>
> <P>Vera and Helmut Hell.&nbsp; <EM>The Great Pilgrimage of the Middle Ages: The Road of St. James of Compostela. </EM>London: Barrie &amp; Rockcligg, 1964 or <EM>Grosse Wallfahrt des Mittelalters</EM>. Tuebingen: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1964.</P>
> <P>E. O. Pederson</P>
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