Spain - Peramea, Catalunya
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After a brief time home following our January, 2008, trip to Africa, My Wife Sandi and I journeyed to Spain. We were based with friends in
Barcelona and Peramea. Barcelona is a beautiful cosmopolitan city on the Mediterranean coast. Peramea is a walled-town in the Pyrenees
that dates back to megalithic times. As our hosts describe it, Peramea is a relatively large village in comparison to many others in the area,
and boasts a year-round population of 80 residents. Compare that to three permanent residents in one of the other villages we visited! During
our 3 weeks we visited several other cities, towns, and ruins in Catalunya. This photo journal will include favorite landscapes, buildings,
people, and flowers. This first set focuses on Peramea...
Barcelona and Peramea. Barcelona is a beautiful cosmopolitan city on the Mediterranean coast. Peramea is a walled-town in the Pyrenees
that dates back to megalithic times. As our hosts describe it, Peramea is a relatively large village in comparison to many others in the area,
and boasts a year-round population of 80 residents. Compare that to three permanent residents in one of the other villages we visited! During
our 3 weeks we visited several other cities, towns, and ruins in Catalunya. This photo journal will include favorite landscapes, buildings,
people, and flowers. This first set focuses on Peramea...
Peramea, Catalunya in the late afternoon sun
Peramea on Easter Monday morning
Peramea later that day
The Sleeping Giantess and snow-covered roofs
The Sleeping Giantess, Peramea
Peramea from the southern road
Peramea from the southern road a few days later
Late Afternoon Sun
Snow-clad Trees
Spring Blossoms
A Fox in the Early Morning
Still Life with Wine Barrels
Sunset Along the Ridge
Another Sunset
Moonlit Cloud
From our Peramean
base we visited some
beautiful Natural Parks,
outstanding 11th and
12th century churches,
small town festivals,
and more during our
week in the Pyrenees..
base we visited some
beautiful Natural Parks,
outstanding 11th and
12th century churches,
small town festivals,
and more during our
week in the Pyrenees..
Congost de Mont-Rebei, a Natural Park near the Asturias border
Another view of the rock formations at Congost
Congost
11th Century church at Collcugat - a village smaller than Peramea
Collcugat under a full moon
Good Friday Passion procession
Roman soldiers marching band
The Sisterhood of Mary carrying the figure of the Virgin from the church
Nestled Villages from Ginestarre
View of the Ginestarre bell tower
The replica murals in Ginestarre church [originals in Barcelona]
Apse and altar
Hermitage
General Store
"Watching the Flock" Shepherd with his dog
Sheep of Peramea