By late afternoon we'd reached Borce, a typical Pyrenean village of grey stone houses with grey slate roofs. On a dull, wet day these villages, hemmed in by the high mountains, can be rather depressing, claustrophobic places ...
We spent the night in the recently restored pilgrim refuge, the Hôpital Saint-Jacques, which also contained a tiny chapel and heritage museum. Inside was this glass sculpture ...
... and these faded 19th century frescos ...
Borce has a spectacular location on a hillside overlooking the Aspe valley ...
3 comments:
Depressing when wet? Just like Wales or the Lake District then!
It's very pretty, and looks peaceful. I love the glass sculpture!
That bottom photograph could be Wales solitary walker. I suppose there is some similarity between all mountain villages.
I wish I could remember the title of that glass sculpture, but I can't - and I've scoured the Internet in vain. I have a feeling it was dedicated to 'Peace'.
Yes, the mountain villages in the hills of Leon on my Camino last year looked very similar too.
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