Galicia
GREEN MEN OF LUGO
Nearby places: Santiago de Compostela, Ponferrada

 


Palace of the bishop

Ditto heraldy.....

under heraldy....the Green Man

LUGO, CITY OF THE GREEN BISCHOP

The palace contains a lot more Green Men, which you can find under the balconies. Seeing that, you have to drop all dogmatic thinking. For a bischop, who publicly displays his love for the Green Men, isn't that unthinkable?....At that time the local situation seems to have dominated the scene, though....

and even adopted women.....

 

 

I thought I was on Easter Island....
A second bischop heraldy, once again with a Green Man. I honestly have to admit, I am impressed!

PS. In Lorch monastery near Schwäbisch Gmünd there is a grave with inscriptions of a bischop who portrays himself as Green Man LINK: Schwäbisch Gmünd

The heraldy of one of the bischops is even displayed at a second site (left) and moreover....IN the church. Two Green Men are defending it aggessively. It increasingly seems that this bishop was able to exercise quite some power in Lugo over a considerable period of time. He even had himself dressed up to the nines at the front side of the church, together with a Green Beast/Man (last foto). Slowly, I have become curious after this bishop....  

A worldly Prince also has a Green Man in his heraldy

The same Green Man

Like in former times: the church attracting all kinds of alternatives. These shops are located opposite he church

 

In some way or another Lugo has its own style. Images like these I had not seen before...

 

lugo-51.jpg (11194 bytes) There is a gallery on the first floor. Unfortunately it was closed. From the distance I was able to shoot this beautiful picture...

 

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The Green Bull. It is unusual that he - symbol of the old religion - is being attacked. It means that he is considered the innocent one....

Our bischop....

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