[Gocamino] [saintjames] Re: Matajudios????

[hme347 at aol.com]

I found this on Google.  It is another pilgrim's account of a visit to Astorga.  I also tried to find some indication of the once thriving Jewish community in Astorga to no avail. Add it to the list of the disappeared:




While in Astorga we also found sites not mentioned in any of our guidebooks. One was clearly marked on the local tourist map:


On the far southeast corner of the city (the green rectangle in the lower right area of the Google Earth image above) we found a “Jardin de la Sinagoga” where the synagogue had once supposedly been. 

There we took our “official portrait of the day” as the sun set. We searched in vain for any sign indicating the existence of a synagogue (or even the name of the garden)


Howard Mendes, NYC







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From: Grant Spangler <gaspangler at hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Gocamino] [saintjames] Re:  Matajudios????








Modern-day Baghdad has a neighborhood named al-Andalus; it's halfway between the 
international airport and the Saddam Grand Mosque, and doen't show on many 
Western maps. You will also find an al-Andalus district in al-Basrah, Iraq and 
an al-Andalus in metro Kuwait City. The era of the Moorish domination of Iberia 
is kept alive through education as well as the naming of edifices and squares .. 
somethin
g akin to the naming of Trafalgar Square in the UK. They don't forget, 
neither should we.    
 
There's a lot of talk about the mosques which were repurposed as churches after 
the Reconquista. Those of you who have been though Toledo have invariably seen 
the Catedral, one of the largest in Europe. It began it's career as a Christian 
church, was converted to a mosque, then back into a church again. Doesn't seem 
to suffer from any identity crisis, however. An amazingly large Catedral for 
such a compact town.
 
Buen Camino,


Grant
 
Grant Spangler
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