• You poke your head into these things

    April 1, 2024 in Spain ⋅ 🌬 14 °C

    ...and it explodes. The maths of it all always gets me. I spent close to an hour here with a bilingual American woman, being shown and told about every inch of the place by two tiny Spanish grandmother volunteers. They said on two days of the year the skylight perfectly aligns to illuminate a certain statue. It took 400 years to build. They didn't have excel or anything. It's phenomenal. The gold and silver is all a bit colonially problematic, but you have to give them the maths.Read more