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There's social history in these windows. Look at them carefully. The lowest one, without any decoration might belong to a servant's room or to a kitchen, the one in the first floor might be a secretarial room or even the library, the one in the middle with the coats of arms to its sides must belong to the lord of the house and the one at the top could be the a maid's room. The whole social scale history narrated thorough the windows.
In a cold sunny town closed balconies are very dear. They provide the old houses with light and heat. They were used to sit down and have coffee, read or sew. Today, they don't have the same use. They are just there, waiting for somebody to enter them and look at the cathedral.
2 comments:
There is a great deal of history and meaning in your town concentrated on a small area.
How do you all live with it? How does this density of facts, ideas and significances influence the dwellers of Avila? Dot they take it as a natural thing or do they spend time thinking about all that?
Do children there understand how special the place is?
I always say people from Ávila suffer "murallitis", that is to say an inflammation due to the walls. Being such a concentrated town, as you say, makes people reserved, shy, introvert and even austere. It does not mean they are not nice, it means they are serious. In general, of course.
I don't think young people understand the importance of so much history. They don't care about it. It is a concept that enters them with age.
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