Iris Enríquez
Food for thought
Rosslyn Chapel was a thorn that was stuck in my side for a long time. After reading about it and seeing it in documentaries on mysteries and puzzles ... it was somewhere I had to visit. On the way from Glasgow to Edinburgh, I did a stop there. The weather was allied against us and we were at the chapel door with our raincoats under a drizzle. The visit began a sinister note because being in Rosslyn on a sunny day is clearly not the same. So as Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu (relatively speaking, and I'm as skinny as Audrey Tautou and my guy has pretty hair cleaner than Tom Hanks in The Da Vinci Code), we ventured to unravel the mysteries of Rosslyn Chapel.
Given that we started with theatrical rain, the ideal would have been that the chapel had been deserted and we would have to wait for the Rosslyn Guardian, but no. It wasn't overcrowded but there were many tourists. The Guardian is not there to teach the Holy Grail, but performs guided tours from the center of the chapel (or you can quietly sit in one of the seats). I get the impression that his real mission is to stop you taking pictures - it is strictly forbidden. The chapel is fraught with friezes, columns and carved detail. There are symbols everywhere - you can hear them explained in the audio guide that you get at the entrance (free). The roof has beautiful flowers and stars, endless green men carved in corners of the chapel, the angel that keeps the heart of Robert the Bruce, the lintel of the Seven Deadly Sins, the Fallen Angel himself, the Apprentice Pillar and my favorite mystery: the corn. It is at this point that the Guardian told us to believe what we wanted to believe. For my part, I have no doubt that it is corn carved in stone and a few aloe leaves. Having been carved a good few years before 1492, it gives one food for thought ...
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