The roof of the Cathedral. Hurrah!

[Charles Hansen]

Rosina -

Can you tell us just how these reservations are made?

Charles
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rosina Lila 
  To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU 
  Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:56 PM
  Subject: The roof of the Cathedral. Hurrah!


  Hello you all,
  The Archdiocese of Santiago has announced that, commencing on June lst, general visits to the roof of the Cathedral will be possible.
  Structural measures to insure the safety of the visitors will have been completed by then.
  The visits will be allowed in groups of 25 people accompanied by a guide that will refer to the historical and religious connotations of the roof structures. 
  The visitors will congregate at the Portico de Gloria and will ascend to the roof  going up a stairway to its left that leads to the Carraca tower.  Once there visitors will traverse to the other side of the Cathedral nave to the Tower of the Bells. From there, visitors will emerge onto the open roof wherefor they will be able to gaze upon the Cathedral's cloister, the Platerias Square, the Literna, the Farrapos Cross, the Girola, the Quintana square, the Corticela, the Azabacherias Square and the whole of Santiago including Pedroso Mount from the north side..
  By virtue of being a pain-in-the-neckish pushy New Yorker I managed to be "invited" to the roof of the Cathedral once.  Let me tell you: you really, really, don't want to miss it.
  I'm glad that, henceforth, anyone who makes a reservation for the purpose can partake of the incredible spellbinding insights from the center of whatever it is that draws us to the Apostle's tomb.
  Warm regards,
  Rosina
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