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| Hospederia Monastica Pax |
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| The neighborhood |
レオンの滞在はちょうど週末で目指したレストランが閉まっていたり、ホテルでくつろいだ他は街についてあまり記憶に残っていないのだが、道路には立派なホタテマークや不可思議な足跡が埋められていたり、大聖堂にももちろん行ってみた。聖堂は市民が崩壊を心配するくらい不完全な工事と傷みから長年補修が続けられて今に至っている。手が入った年代が何度か違うので外壁の色が場所によって異なるのだろう。内部は全体的には質素と言うかシックな感じで、オルガンが両側に配置されていた。
聖堂と同じ通りにガウディが設計したと言われる建物がある。今は銀行らしい。その前の広場ではガウディ本人がベンチに腰掛けていた。（5月11日）
2-night’s stay in Leon was
intended for a break and possible schedule adjustment, and we had booked an
upper-level hotel, Hospederia Monastic Pax (€74 incl. breakfast). It was literally
a modified monastery for hotel facility and separate albergue as well. We had
some difficulty finding its location, but once inside the hotel was spacious
and comfortable.
The break coincided with a
weekend, and the restaurant we were interested in was closed. I actually don’t
recall much about this city except mostly relaxing in the hotel room such as
watching the Madrid Open tennis final of Nadal and Nishikori on TV. We
definitely walked a bit to notice a rigid scallop mark and a strange footstep on the
main street as well as visiting the Cathedral: Due to its poor construction and aging damage, the citizens were worried about its ceiling collapsing and had to spend years
for renovating it. It was visible because the colors of structural outer wall stones
were not uniform here and there. Inside was rather moderate, or I should say chic. The pipe organs
were placed on both wings.
A few minutes along the main
street from the Cathedral is a building designed by Gaudi, now
used as a bank. Gaudi himself sits in a bench in front of the building.
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