Showing posts with label knockers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knockers. Show all posts

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Cool Doors and Door Knockers, Part 3

The last of our doors. The first two in Cuenca at the cathedral: a fish doorknob and a side view of the pointy ornamentation on an outer door. Door 3 is Casa Batllo in Barcelona, 4 is in the Alcazar in Sevilla, and 5 is Casa Amatller in Barcelona.

We have a large door on our small house in Alameda and now I'm thinking we need to find a way to gussy it up. It seems a little lacking in comparison to the Spanish doors. Maybe I need to take a trip to the Alameda Flea Market soon....



Cool Doors and Door Knockers, Part 2

Barcelona dragon (1) and lion (2) doors were pretty cool but Zaragoza wins out for most ornamentation. The medusa (3), if that's who she is, and the lion (4) were just two of many I found in that long, hot wander looking for an open restaurant in Zaragoza (yes, perhaps I was looking too much at closed doors in retrospect...). The very fancy door (5) opens the Ayuntamiento de Leon--essentially it's a city office building. Leave it to Leon to dress up even their modern doors.



Cool Doors and Door Knockers, Part 1

There are a lot of fascinating doors in Spain, some old, some new but a lot of ornamentation that you just don't see in the U.S. #1 is from the Alhambra and the next 3 photos are from Elx (!), and the last is from Barcelona (I think it was on a side door of a church, which kind of explains the laden-down dude celebrated here).