La torre de Sauniere / Sauniere tower
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Foto presa amb una Voigtländer Bessa II del 1951, amb objectiu Color-Skopar f3.5 de 105mm i Ilford FP4+ 125 ISO; revelat amb HC110 i escanejat amb Epson V800.
La Torre Magdala (Tour Magdala en francès) fou construida amb aparentment misteriosa financiació un pobre mossen d'un escarransit poblet de les dures terres de les Corbieres, entre Carcassona i Perpinyà. Com aconseguí els diners per a edificar-se aquest complex senyorial?
Tota aquesta historia altament sobredimensionada per l'ocultisme giran entorn el famós mossen Berenger Sauniere. El seu gust estetic és altament discutible, però molts hi han vist una simbologia ocultista fonamentada en totes les falornies que s'han escrit entorn d'aquest mossen ultraconservador que feu de les seves per aquí a inicis del s. XX. Deien deien deien que havia trobat un tresor restaurant l'església o el cementiri, ja que feu tal nivell d'obres en un poblet de 200 habitants perdut en un racó aillat de les corbieres que semblaria no poder-se explicar. Sauniere redecorà tota la església, es construi una rectoria prou luxosa, uns jardins, hivernacle i una torre neo-medieval anomeanada Tour Magdala, que li feia de biblioteca privada. Dècades després de la seva mort, una colla d'exageradors, vividors i estafadors (Noel Corbú, Pierre Plantard, Gerard de Sedé, Henry Lincoln) varen anar fent creixer la bola ,vinculant el "tresor" amb el Priorat de Sió, la descendencia de Jesucrist i l'hereu del regne de França. I tot plegat resumit per a fama mundial per el Codi DaVinci.
Investigadors més seriosos donen la clau de la fortuna de Sauniere en el que ja va investigar el bisbat de Carcassona: que era un estafador enriquit pel trafic de misses. En fi, val a dir que les vistes des de Rènnas valen prou la pena.
Us recomano "Prohibido excavar en este pueblo", d'Oscar Fàbrega.
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Picture taken with a Voigtländer Bessa II made in 1951, lens Color-Skopar f3.5 105mm; Ilford FP4+ film developed in HC110 and scanned with an Epson V800.
This neo-medieval tower is known as Tour Magdala, and was built (at considerable cost) by a humble priest of a tiny hilltop village in the impoverished mountains of Les Corbieres, in southern France.
All began with the famous padre Berenger Sauniere. His aesthetic taste is highly debatable, but many have seen an occultist symbolism based in their works, based on all the stories that have been written around this ultra-conservative priest who resided here arround the 1900. They said that he had found a fabulous treasure, since he made such a level of work in a village of 200 inhabitants lost in a corner isolated in the Corbieres range that it would seem to be unable to explain. Sauniere redecorated the whole church in dubious taste, ordered the building of a fairly luxurious rectory, gardens, a greenhouse and this neo-medieval tower, which was his own private library. Decades after his death, a group of exaggerators and scammers (Noel Corbú, Pierre Plantard, Gerard de Sedé, Henry Lincoln) were going to grow the ball, linking the "treasure" with the Priory of Sion, the offspring of Jesus Christ and the heir of the kingdom of France. And all this summarized for world renown by the DaVinci Code, by Dan Brown. Some even dare to say that Sauniere found the tomb of Mary Magdalen or Christ under that church! The world is mad.
More serious investigators give the key to the fortune of Sauniere to what the bishopric of Carcassonne already in his lifetime suspected and investigated: he was a scammer enriched by the traffic of masses. In short, it's worth saying that the views of the landscape arround Rènnas are worth the trouble.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennes-le-Ch%C3%A2teau#Church_of_Sa...
www.renneslechateau.nl/mystery-of-rennes-le-chateau/
La torre de Sauniere / Sauniere tower
IN ENGLISH BELOW
Foto presa amb una Voigtländer Bessa II del 1951, amb objectiu Color-Skopar f3.5 de 105mm i Ilford FP4+ 125 ISO; revelat amb HC110 i escanejat amb Epson V800.
La Torre Magdala (Tour Magdala en francès) fou construida amb aparentment misteriosa financiació un pobre mossen d'un escarransit poblet de les dures terres de les Corbieres, entre Carcassona i Perpinyà. Com aconseguí els diners per a edificar-se aquest complex senyorial?
Tota aquesta historia altament sobredimensionada per l'ocultisme giran entorn el famós mossen Berenger Sauniere. El seu gust estetic és altament discutible, però molts hi han vist una simbologia ocultista fonamentada en totes les falornies que s'han escrit entorn d'aquest mossen ultraconservador que feu de les seves per aquí a inicis del s. XX. Deien deien deien que havia trobat un tresor restaurant l'església o el cementiri, ja que feu tal nivell d'obres en un poblet de 200 habitants perdut en un racó aillat de les corbieres que semblaria no poder-se explicar. Sauniere redecorà tota la església, es construi una rectoria prou luxosa, uns jardins, hivernacle i una torre neo-medieval anomeanada Tour Magdala, que li feia de biblioteca privada. Dècades després de la seva mort, una colla d'exageradors, vividors i estafadors (Noel Corbú, Pierre Plantard, Gerard de Sedé, Henry Lincoln) varen anar fent creixer la bola ,vinculant el "tresor" amb el Priorat de Sió, la descendencia de Jesucrist i l'hereu del regne de França. I tot plegat resumit per a fama mundial per el Codi DaVinci.
Investigadors més seriosos donen la clau de la fortuna de Sauniere en el que ja va investigar el bisbat de Carcassona: que era un estafador enriquit pel trafic de misses. En fi, val a dir que les vistes des de Rènnas valen prou la pena.
Us recomano "Prohibido excavar en este pueblo", d'Oscar Fàbrega.
=========================================
Picture taken with a Voigtländer Bessa II made in 1951, lens Color-Skopar f3.5 105mm; Ilford FP4+ film developed in HC110 and scanned with an Epson V800.
This neo-medieval tower is known as Tour Magdala, and was built (at considerable cost) by a humble priest of a tiny hilltop village in the impoverished mountains of Les Corbieres, in southern France.
All began with the famous padre Berenger Sauniere. His aesthetic taste is highly debatable, but many have seen an occultist symbolism based in their works, based on all the stories that have been written around this ultra-conservative priest who resided here arround the 1900. They said that he had found a fabulous treasure, since he made such a level of work in a village of 200 inhabitants lost in a corner isolated in the Corbieres range that it would seem to be unable to explain. Sauniere redecorated the whole church in dubious taste, ordered the building of a fairly luxurious rectory, gardens, a greenhouse and this neo-medieval tower, which was his own private library. Decades after his death, a group of exaggerators and scammers (Noel Corbú, Pierre Plantard, Gerard de Sedé, Henry Lincoln) were going to grow the ball, linking the "treasure" with the Priory of Sion, the offspring of Jesus Christ and the heir of the kingdom of France. And all this summarized for world renown by the DaVinci Code, by Dan Brown. Some even dare to say that Sauniere found the tomb of Mary Magdalen or Christ under that church! The world is mad.
More serious investigators give the key to the fortune of Sauniere to what the bishopric of Carcassonne already in his lifetime suspected and investigated: he was a scammer enriched by the traffic of masses. In short, it's worth saying that the views of the landscape arround Rènnas are worth the trouble.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennes-le-Ch%C3%A2teau#Church_of_Sa...
www.renneslechateau.nl/mystery-of-rennes-le-chateau/