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Friday, May 26, 2006
Old Tenerife Doors & Windows
Came across this site of photos, many of Tenerife, by Fernando Gómez Viñarás today and I was especially taken by this gallery of Puertas y Ventanas (Doors and Windows) on Casas Viejas (Old Houses).
Despite most of them being in really advanced states of disrepair with rust, peeling paint and rotting wood, as well as clear evidence of damp in the brickwork, to me, there is still a romantic beauty in their faded colours.
Somehow, in spite of their condition; getting stuck will bills or being defaced with graffiti, these buildings manage to cling proudly to small details that were once their crowning glory. A dash of fancy ironwork here, some decorative carving there: signs that they were once "the height of fashion" and that their owners had "arrived" in society. Pay attention though. While most of them look to be in a state of total ruin and uninhabitable, there are cases where the door is ajar and the shutter open, in a manner suggesting they are still in use.
Puertas y Ventanas
