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City of the dead

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I was out on a blustery Sunday afternoon on a quest to see more of the work of Catalan architect Rafael Masó. I’ll write more about him in future but this day was to see the facade/street wall of a cemetery up the Onyar about a ¼ mile outside of Girona. The facade is in the final stages of renovation having originally been built 1917-19.

The wall is quite plain with a frieze banding of gold wave-embossed tile while the only sculptural decorations are a variety of snakes

Stone snakes in bas relief

along with the obligatory hand of god and this odd couple at the base of the wall.

Lion and victim

Gallery of images

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