Most tourists visiting Barcelona wouldn’t think to visit a pipe organ factory but that’s what we did today! What a treat Bill Potter and I experienced this morning when we visited the factory of Gerhard Grenzing Orgelbau, who has been building pipe organs since 1963. This morning we were picked up by Natalie, his daughter,… Read More Organ factory in El Papiol
As soon as we walked through the doors of the León Cathedral, my visual senses were on overload. Apparently León Cathedral houses one of the largest collections of medieval stained glass in the world. Everywhere you look, you see the brilliant colors of the stained glass windows. The great majority of them date from the… Read More Sensory overload
I could have spent DAYS at the Basilica Sagrada Família here in Barcelona, and even more days at the Sagrada Família shop! It is the most visited tourist attraction in Spain, with more than 3 million visitors per year. Designed by Antoni Gaudi in 1885, it has been in a state of construction for 130… Read More I could have spent DAYS …
This afternoon, many of us received this shocking news from St. Andrew’s Cathedral: According to a follow-up story in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Dean Walter Brownridge said damage to two stained-glass windows was estimated at $8,000 each. “The incident marked the second apparent vandalism attack within the past few weeks. A week ago Monday, furniture and the church’s harpsichord… Read More Not “if” but “when”