Girona’s secret and mystical past
I’ve added this section more as a result of personal interest into a part Girona’s history that’s not often mentioned in any of the standard tourist guides. Anyway, I’ve always held an interest in ancient mysteries, stories or facts that challenged the standard perception, or what’s written in our history books.
Delving into this subject has revealed links between Girona’s Jewish past, Rennes Le Chateau (written about in The Da Vinci Code) and the Holy Grail legends. These observations were featured in a book by the author Patrice Chaplain (City of Secrets) and there’s also an interesting video here by Carrie Kirkpatrick entitled ‘Mystical Legends-Girona, a city of secrets’ which is worth watching. Update. It seems that it’s now a password protected video.
Many of the locations in that video clip were clearly very familiar to me as we’d often walked through those same Girona streets, gardens and open spaces she mentioned. What had previously seemed like just plain, old stone walls, walkways and narrow streets took on a different light.
Here are some additional links http://www.fengshuiseminars.com/tours/renne-le-chateau-2011.html to research the matter further.
http://andrewgough.co.uk/17questions_chaplin.html
