Field Trip 2: Girona and Overview

Field Trip Two was very different from field trip one. In the first Field trip, we felt like vagabonds...only staying in one place for a short time, going out every night, exploring. We sketched on the first field trip, but not like we did in Roma. Field trip 2 was mostly spent in Roma. We had a day in Girona, a town that ended up being really interesting. We were mostly there to catch our plane to Rome on a discount airline, and the whole time I just wanted to get to Roma...but it was a very cool little city in itself.

The old town is designed around the river. The medieval buildings originally faced the streets w/ a blank facade to the river, but they have been modified in the last few hundred years to open up to the riverfront, giving it an interesting look. Our first mission was to walk along the old Roman wall that still stands on one side of the city. It was a very interesting walk and the views were great. The city with its cathedral looming in the distance
One of many beautiful green spaces around the wall

The wall lead us to the Cathedral, a strange mix of Romanesque and Baroque...you really have to work to go to church here...
Next we had a sketching assignment at an old Romanesque monastery. Romanesque architecture is very cold, but has a beautiful simplicity and plainness to it. After this we had the rest of the day to just explore the city... There wasn´t much else to it, but we wandered around the riverfront some more

I really liked the post office in Girona. Notice the eagles on the dome´s edges. This reminded me of a building you would definitely see in Kansas City.
Another view of the river
They had a very interesting and surprisingly trendy and clean old town. I liked the way these stairs came together.
So that ended our time in Girona, it was time to go to ROMA!!!!