| The steps rattle down the wooden stairs from the height of two floors while I set light. The man draws back behind the column – there, you see? – and waits until I click. “Kommen, Madonna!” he says then excitedly. “I speak Russian,” I say, but he already leads me to the courtyard, and shows the Luca della Robbia reminiscence-relief. “How does it come here?” “This our house is very old. Very, very old.”
| |  Los pasos de alguien que baja retumban por la escalera de madera mientras ajusto la cámara. Un hombre se retira detrás de la columna —ahí, ¿veis?— y se queda quieto hasta que disparo. «Kommen, Madonna!», me dice enseguida con entusiasmo. «Hablo ruso», le digo, pero ya me está arrastrando al patio para mostrarme un relieve con cierto aire a Luca della Robbia. «¿Cómo ha llegado hasta aquí?» «Esta casa nuestra es muy vieja. Muy, muy vieja». |
but not a 1400 house, I suppose, and not a 1400 man :-)
ResponderEliminarGreat, this is a Lwòw that doesn't appear in tourist guides
Although the house – in via Fedor 8, one step from the main square – must surely have Quattrocento foundations, what you can see is certainly not older than the end of the 19th century, the golden age of Lemberg. However, for a local person to whom access to real history has been forbidden for almost a hundred years, this is certainly very, very old.
ResponderEliminarI am just collecting mosaics of a Lwów that does not appear in tourist guides – in order to compose a little tourist guide in which they will soon appear (first as an e-book in Spanish, but later also in other languages, inshallah).