This is actually a photo of a painting from the museum we visited yesterday with our then-roommates, but it, too, is a view of Pamplona offset by only a hundred years or so.
This was a view from the top floor of the museum that one curator kindly offered to show us by removing the protective blinds that had been put in place to keep sunlight from slowly degrading the quality of the paintings we were viewing within.
Although I am not sure exactly how the angles work out, some part of the painting above coincides with the view we had from the museum. Indeed, much of Pamplona gives me the sense that I am walking in a 19th century piece of romanticized art. The city is practically pristine, never too crowded nor too empty, even during the busy Saturday night pintxos raids and weekday siestas, which I think can be considered the two extremes of population visibility.
This was a view from the top floor of the museum that one curator kindly offered to show us by removing the protective blinds that had been put in place to keep sunlight from slowly degrading the quality of the paintings we were viewing within.
Although I am not sure exactly how the angles work out, some part of the painting above coincides with the view we had from the museum. Indeed, much of Pamplona gives me the sense that I am walking in a 19th century piece of romanticized art. The city is practically pristine, never too crowded nor too empty, even during the busy Saturday night pintxos raids and weekday siestas, which I think can be considered the two extremes of population visibility.
good gravy its beautiful! say, how warm is it there at the moment?
ReplyDeleteThus far, most days have been 70s-80s, with one excursion into the 90s. Shade and breeze make everything basically perfect in terms of felt temperature, and some nights have warranted a light jacket. The only day it rained over us, we were driving, and the rain lasted all of a minute. Of course, seconds before it started raining, I used the windshield washing fluid; if I had just been patient, all those bugs guts would have been taken care of by nature. I am not sure what lesson I can really take away from this, but it seemed like a profound experience at the time.
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