Entering Ávila from Madrid
Although first impressions are sometimes disappointing, they may also help us to come into contact with a reality. This is the case for the ways we use to enter a place. It was usually the train and what one could see from the rails was the suburbs, the poorest housing in the towns. Something similar happens with the roads. Nevertheless, today's expanding towns offer us a better view.
Coming into Ávila from Madrid the avenue is broad, clear, straight and artistic. There are several sculptures made of iron which, in a certain way, cut the monotony and provide us with elements to understand we are entering somewhere with art.
We may not like the iron works, but they all have a meaning
1 comment:
I'm not crazy about iron works, but maybe they have a right place as announcements. I like the "bridge or gate"
Sometimes, one can't even guess what the artist meant. We have a monument for the 1989 Revolution (you must have seen it, across the Royal Palace) that looks like an olive in a giant toothpick. Since in our slang, "stake" means "hoax", there is a joke saying that the meaning is: it was all a big cheat. One of the very few new jokes in the last years.
By the way, do you have a slang? Does it have its own words or do some normal words have a different meaning, in a certain context?
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