We’re here in Perpignan in an extremely windy, cold day. You can see the weather has been beautiful until today and then it rained all day yesterday.
Anyhow, we’ll try to walk around. Right now we’re by one of the old entrances to Perpignan, the port to Notre Dame and we’re going to walk around the old palace citadel and it is still a walled city from 1500 to 1600.
I would really like to eat at this restaurant perhaps tonight. From 1846, but nowhere does it say whether or not its open today. Today is Sunday and many restaurant in France close. So this was—I guess the Hotel Deville. Let’s see, “Three arms of the front toward the symbols of the three classes of the medieval society…with their ‘hands’ upper hand, middle hand or lower hand.” Of course the lower hand is farmers and craftsman. Oh I like that, “The disadvantage classes had no vote.” There is one hand, two hands.
It’s Sunday and all the shops are closed.
The Cathedral St. John. This church of St. John the Baptist has begun in 1374. Well I was wrong. Actually, it was consecrated in 1025. The St. John Cemetery is the oldest one in France and according to the information on the outside the oldest grave is a carpenter from 1370.
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