Municipal Theater
Jul 31, 2012 News
To eat in Girona: Girona is rich in gastronomy and is why it has a great diversity of Restaurants. We recommend the old helmet to taste exquisite plates. List Restaurants What To visit: – Old Helmet, contains the more important artistic patrimony of the city. – The houses of the Oar. They make think you about Venice, that’s why him they call small Venice.
– The Call Jueu (the Jewish District) – the Cathedral of Girona, offers four architectonic styles: Romanesque, gothic, Renaissance and baroque. – Banys rabs (Arab Baths) – the Boulevard of the Freedom. Precious boulevard where it is possible to be eaten or to be had dinner calmly in the terraces. – The Place of Independence. One of the most well-known and frequented places of Girona, surrounded by neoclassic buildings with great porches. At the moment this place offers a great variety of restaurants. – Museums like the one of History of the city, archaeological museum of Catalonia, Museum of Art, Museum of the cinema.
– Municipal Theater of Girona located within the City council of Girona. – Buildings projected by the modernist architect Rafael Mas (Girona, 1880-1935) that are: House Ribas Carehuet; street of the Fora, n 6; Mas house of the street of Ballesteries n 29; Farmcia Saguer of the street of Orphrey n 20; Salietti house, street of the Neu n 1; Farinera Teixidor, street of Santa Eugnia n 42; House of the Punxa, street of Santa 19 Eugnia n and Ensesa House, Barcelona street, n 70. In order to finalize: The legend, the stories and the anecdotes are chronic popular of the life of the city among them we emphasized: – If you go to Girona you must kiss the ass to him to the lioness (cul of lleona). It is a way simple to express the will to return to the city, or to remain for always, or to secure the citizenship, and a good citizen or citizen does not consider themselves to whom has not fulfilled this rite. – A sorceress threw stones to all that one that attended the countless processions that were celebrated in Girona. The day of Corpus, when it was on the verge of throwing a stone, a voice resounded by all the city: If stones strips, stones you will throw and in stone you will become. Still it is possible to be seen turned into gargoyle of girola of the Cathedral. – All the gerundenses have heard speak sometimes of the flies of San Narciso, the parents even explain the tradition to their children when these are small. But one knows when they really passed the facts? , almost they relate all it to arrival of the troops of Napolen in 1810 in the city of Girona, but is mistaken; the legend, if it is legend, comes back from many centuries, concretely of century XIII. One is based on the text of the historian Bernat Desclot wrote who it in 1288.Se makes reference to a plague of flies that existed during the invasion of the French troops in the city of Girona in June of 1285. The invaders, that were commanded by Felipe ” valiente” , they occupied the collegiate church of Sant Felix where the body of San Narciso venerated, profaned the temple and they suddenly began to leave great amount flies that pricked to the soldiers and the horses, producing to them as much pain that this motivated the retirement of the French troops of the city.
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