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Postcard from Cadiz, Spain: Friendly since Phoenician times

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This Phoenician woman appeared so friendly in the Cadiz Museum, as though welcoming us to town. Her wave in this post can be considered “adios” because these snapshots are our parting ones.

Love the sensuous Solomonic columns we encountered in random locations, the colorful azulejos benches and the braid left in a church alongside milagros. I had never seen a braid offered in gratitude for a prayer believed answered outside of churches in Mexico.

Monument of the Constitution of 1812, Plaza de Espana
Monument of the Constitution of 1812, Plaza de Espana
milagros
Solomonic columns
Museum of Cadiz
detail of “The Last Judgment,” Nicolaes Eliasz Pickenoy, Museo de Cadiz
statue from Roman period of Cadiz, Museo de Cadiz
hydrangea
Parque Genoves
Phoenician sculpture, Museum of Cadiz
Claudio I, Museo de Cadiz
door knocker
Monument of the Constitution of 1812, Plaza de Espana
azulejos
post office letter drop
detail of “The Last Judgment,” Nicolaes Eliasz Pickenoy, Museo de Cadiz
Claudio I, Museo de Cadiz
Phoenician sarcophagi, Museum of Cadiz

Next stop Cordoba.

Postcard from Bologna, Italy: Knockers and Locks

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The ancient, massive, carriage-size doors – so heavy that smaller pedestrian entrances often are cut into them – of Bologna’s numerous palaces require substantial knockers. As architectural details throughout the city reflect, residents value form as much as function.

Here are a few of the imaginative knockers and locks, some threatening in order to dissuade evil spirits from crossing thresholds, encountered during our wanderings.