Roman Aqueduct in Segovia and Companion Buildings with traditional decorated walls
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What really struck me in Segovia were the artful patterns on the walls. You see them everywhere, from the walls of the centuries old Alcazar palace, to clearly modern designs on buildings and above doorways. They’re cut into plaster with molds or simply pressed in with a firm instrument by hand.
Modern Detail above a Doorway
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View of the Tower from inside The Alcazar Palace
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I managed to communicate my interest in the artistic formas en las paredes to the woman who sold me my ticket to the Alcazar Palace. She replied in voluable Spanish, the gist of which I picked up. (I smiled when I understood her and repeated a lot of words and phrases to make sure I got her main points). She indicated that this is a local art form, specific to the that area. I replied that when my parents built a house in Ventura, California the one thing they did pay someone else to do was to form beautiful patterns in the plaster that adorned the house. We speculated that perhaps some of the ancestors of those artesanos Mexicanos might have come from the area around Segovia.
* As my parents had done a number of other times, they built that house with their own hands – they didn’t pay someone else to build it
The Alcazar Palace
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great blog!
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