Thanks for your patience. We have been busy since we retired and also, it is good that the report is delayed. Two weeks ago it would have been way too long and unfocused. It has taken me this time to stop my head from spinning. Here is my report:
We went there with four goals in mind, which we decidedly achieved.
Experience Art and Architecture
Experience Food
Experience Culture
Relax and Enjoy
Experience Art
O…M…G. I am not going to throw up a bunch of pictures hoping you will have the same experience I had. You would not. But just imagine looking up into a dome that is 448 feet tall. Most of the creative artistic energy in Europe for at least the first fifteen centuries AD was spent on the religion theme and the greatest of these efforts by FAR were the cathedrals. The sculptures and architecture and adornments there are as great as humans could muster at the time, with cost in money and time as no barrier. I will show one pic. This is a picture of Mass being said in St. Peter’s Basilica. You can see the priest delivering the sermon. This is not the main altar in St. Peter’s. These cathedrals were, for me, ‘shock and awe.
I should have backed up a bit to take that pic. Here is what would have also been in the pic, above the altar.
