The royal abbey of Creus Health, the cloister

The cloister forms a rectangle of 35 meters by 40. The original plan envisaged a square of 35 on side. The new layout includes the small temple with the wash-hand basin, located at the place indicated in the ideal plan of a cloister cistercian. Of course, water is present in this place, as well as powerful telluric networks. The monks were to purify…

The capitals are of any beauty and represent an impressive bestiary. 

I saw only seldom as many winged characters, bat, monkeys, of asses, all this small world being represented with large ears. 

In the negative aspect, the bat is the image of hypocrisy and duplicity. It is it which leads the evil geniuses which haunt the nights. But it is also the symbol of the contemplative spirit which studies the texts crowned in order to discover the hidden direction of them. It is the evocation of the heart to the research of the light. (seen in Saint Bertrand de Comminges)

Even an angel holds in hand a vine shoot of vine while its feet are turned over the made-to-order of the acrobats. It is not any more this world, the feet do not touch any more the ground. Skilful way to say to us that the wine was the “drink of the gods” in our Western Europe?