{"id":1297,"date":"2013-05-19T19:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T19:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andreurodenas.wordpress.com\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2018-07-11T16:52:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T16:52:37","slug":"les-gargoles-de-notredame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelandreams.net\/es\/les-gargoles-de-notredame\/","title":{"rendered":"THE NOTRE DAME GARGOYLES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Andreu R\u00f3denas<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>One of the things that I was most curious about in one of my stays in Paris was the gargoyles of Notre Dame Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>From a distance, you can not guess its size and variety, but when you climb the balconies of the cathedral and see them at life size, you realize they are impressive. Only those travelers who spend a few hours visiting the cathedral will be able to check it since it is not possible from the square.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1298\" style=\"width: 557px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1298\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1298\" src=\"http:\/\/travelandreams.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/notredame1.jpg?w=547\" alt=\"Des de la pla\u00e7a les g\u00e0rgoles no s'aprecien.\" width=\"547\" height=\"729\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Gargoyles are not appreciated from the square<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gargoyles have been much talked about and usually their meaning is more associated with the mythology and ancient beliefs of the Middle Ages than with their architectural and decorative meaning. It is said that gargoyles are elements of protection of the churches to isolate them from demonized beings of hell and to prevent them from unbelieving sinners. Hence they built them with these forms of semi-animal creatures with a grotesque appearance of monsters or ancestral beasts.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1314\" style=\"width: 557px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1314\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1314\" src=\"http:\/\/travelandreams.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/notredame10.jpg?w=547\" alt=\"A punt de sortir volant\" width=\"547\" height=\"854\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Ready to fly<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1303\" style=\"width: 557px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1303\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1303\" src=\"http:\/\/travelandreams.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/notredame4.jpg?w=547\" alt=\"G\u00e0rgoles a la primera balconada\" width=\"547\" height=\"297\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Gargoyles in the first balcony<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1304\" style=\"width: 557px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1304\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1304\" src=\"http:\/\/travelandreams.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/notredame5.jpg?w=547\" alt=\"Aspecte intimidatori\" width=\"547\" height=\"410\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Intimidating aspect<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1305\" style=\"width: 557px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1305\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1305\" src=\"http:\/\/travelandreams.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/notredame6.jpg?w=547\" alt=\"Una g\u00e0rgola mentjant-se un esser hum\u00e0\" width=\"547\" height=\"707\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">A gargoyle eating<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1312\" style=\"width: 557px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1312\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1312\" src=\"http:\/\/travelandreams.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/notredame9.jpg?w=547\" alt=\"Fent nous amics\" width=\"547\" height=\"276\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Making new friends<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1309\" style=\"width: 557px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1309\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1309\" src=\"http:\/\/travelandreams.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/notredame7.jpg?w=547\" alt=\"Les g\u00e0rgoles tamb\u00e9 pensen\" width=\"547\" height=\"410\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Gargoyles also think<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Architecturally they had the function of decorating the facades of the temples and cathedrals (especially in the Gothic and Renaissance era) and they took advantage of them to channel the rainwater and throw it through the mouth of the figure.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1301\" style=\"width: 557px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1301\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1301\" src=\"http:\/\/travelandreams.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/notredame3.jpg?w=547\" alt=\"Vista de la silueta de les g\u00e0rgoles des de l'entrada principal\" width=\"547\" height=\"388\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Gargoyles silhouettes<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It can not be denied that they have a special appeal and those of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris are even more so as they are often cared for and restored, not as in other places where they are left to expose the rain and the wind while it is wearing and deteriorating forever.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1310\" style=\"width: 557px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1310\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1310\" src=\"http:\/\/travelandreams.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/notredame8.jpg?w=547\" alt=\"Vigilant la ciutat\" width=\"547\" height=\"410\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Watching the 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From a distance, you can not guess its size and variety, but when you climb the balconies of the cathedral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,26,2,34],"tags":[23,87,55,33,88,89,42,43,73],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articulos","category-diversos","category-europa","category-fotografia-2","tag-arquitectura","tag-catedral","tag-ciutats","tag-fotografia","tag-france","tag-gargolas","tag-paris","tag-photography","tag-travel-and-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelandreams.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelandreams.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelandreams.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelandreams.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelandreams.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/travelandreams.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6039,"href":"https:\/\/travelandreams.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/6039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelandreams.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelandreams.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelandreams.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelandreams.net\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}