Chapter Four

The steps leading to Iglesia San Pedro

Puente Picudo across the Ega River

The Diner in Estella. Fast food, Spanish style includes a perfectly cooked sunny-side up egg on your french fries.

The portal through the medieval wall surrounding ancient Viana

One of Cesar Borgia's several "final" resting places.

Iglesia Santa Maria (13th Century) Viana

Town Hall, Viana

Albergue Andres Munoz (originally a monastery)

Pilgrims shoe rack (keeps the dust from being tracked into the dorm rooms).

Recently discovered fragment of an original mural on one of the few covered parts of the chapel.

Directional indicators for the way out of Viana. Yellow arrow on the foreground wall, yellow and blue ceramic shell on the right side of the outside wall.

Early sun on a rural home outside of Viana transforms it.

Harvest time.

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There was a shortened statue of a man sitting on what would have been the floor of the church but on what are now patches of stone, dirt and weeds. It looked as though his head had broken off at one time and been restored but much of his beard has been sheared away. The statue is slowly eroding; the details in his hands are gone, his facial features flattened and all of the pleat edges on his robe have softened. I am a witness to a stage of his infinitely slow return to the elements from which he was created.