While Granada Sleeps
by Joan Carroll
Title
While Granada Sleeps
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art
Description
People don't get out too early in Spain or maybe it was the cool spring morning, but Bib Rambla was slow to awaken. I did have some have chocolate and churros at the Gran Cafe Bib-Rambla (a 1907-era cafe), not an economical choice but certainly an atmospheric one! Plaza Bib Rambla is also called Plaza de las Flores (Square of Flowers). In the centre of the square is the baroque Gigantones Fountain, consisting of a circle of grotesque figures spurting water bearing on their hunched shoulders a rather undersized statue of Neptune. from the seventeenth century. The Plaza Bib Rambla is named after Bab ar Ramia, meaning a 'wall gate'. It was used in Moorish times for bull running and later for auto da fe as Christians conquered the area. Today, it is a more peaceful center of commercial and social life, with the cathedral's single bell tower jutting up over the townhouse facades decorated with wrought-iron balconies and arcaded doorways of the north side of the square.
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January 8th, 2016
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