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France/Spain 2011
Day 7 - 23rd March - Jaca (Part 5)
We then reached the town of Jaca.
Jaca street
This is probably a church
Local treats
What you see is a thick sugar glaze on this local treat - flaky pastry
Another road
Pickup van outside Cathedral of San Pedro
Gate to Cathedral of San Pedro
Information on the cathedral. It is part of the World Heritage Site "Route of Santiago de Compostela".
Portal. Notice the mendicant
There was a nice museum inside the cathedral which was supposed to close at 7 but they let us in even though it was 6:40pm, which was very nice of them.
Act of Council of Jaca. This is a facsimile
Musical instruments
Murals on chapel walls of Osia, with writeup
More frescoes, from Urriés. They're like a manuscript in large format.
Cloisters
Reliquary ark
More murals
Murals from Bagüés
The murals were excellent, but in contrast the items were quite shitty after the high quality artefacts in Colmar.
Christ on Cross
Virgin and Child
Virgin and Child
Christ on the Cross
Chapter House
Capital in Chapter House
Capital
Capital: alternate angle
Cloisters again. I'm guessing the garden looks much better later in the year.
The Secretum
Ceiling of Secretum
Ascension of the Virgin
Holy Burial
Altarpiece
St Michael the Archangel
Virgin and Child
Key to "Altarpiece of the Virgin with Child"
Altarpiece of the Virgin with Child
Cathedral nave
The cathedral wasn't interesting except for the trick they used of keeping it in darkness (this was the only supposedly-open-for-business unlit church I could ever remember being in [and one of the very few such buildings, period - in fact only the top floor of the Naples National Archaeological Museum comes to mind]). To light it up one had to pay one Euro.
Lit nave
Porch of cathedral
Exterior of cathedral
Couple walking 3 dogs
Citadel
Some of the 2.8kg of eggs I lugged halfway across Europe
Plaza del Marques de la Cadena
Crest on Wall
Statue of Ramiro I
A quarilingual sign: French, Spanish and probably Basque and Catalan (the website also has Occitan)
We then had dinner tapas style.
Clams, tortilla with prawns, bacalau (salt cod) with mashed potato
Jamon cylinders, fish curry puffs. I use the term deliberately as inside was mashed egg, fish and chili.
This might've been something else.
Kidney
We then went to another bar to try their tapas.
Anchovy olives. Usually both are salty, so this was a killer combination.
Snails with aioli. Give me escargots with garlic butter any day - this was quite tasteless.
Tripe
Calamari. This was very light, but there was no sauce to cut the oil, so I used the aioli.
Tx[something] on bread. They were sausages.
Rokelin - with legs of ham hanging on the wall
This menu is cheap, but the food is questionable with dishes such as "Icicles Rossini to the Oven", "Stew of attacked vegetables", "Little Hams of Chicken Roasted in His Juice" and "Rabbit to the Chilindron". Again the French is better than the English.
A 16 gb memory card means one can go crazy. Unfortunately this causes problems on returning, as I am currently finding out.