the detriment of losing everything that happens at street level, namely, bodies and sculpted body and not so crowded miscellaneous windows and multicolored lights, street vendors of all class, race and status, sports cars that make their lines more than a drooling, crazed people shopping dates and age, and of course, misery, poverty, crime and unhealthy, I shot almost like a madman beyond above, which is just and civilized Madrid begins its polluted skies. details are well known to all who walk or way of working has been fixed minimum Madrid on high, but auctions are just received by the ordinary citizen either because the building seems to lack importance or because the relentless clock gives respite to take a break or because our musings are so important to not let us enjoy the journey daily.
Auction which extend upward as nerve endings that seem to want to escape this Madrid that overwhelms us and destroys us and yet we love and we need it here, as I do, we are born and we sucked "almost" all we know.
Terminations, mostly extinct designed by architects who wanted to finish the buildings with prominent architectural details to make this a city Madrid even higher, recognized and stretched as befitting his long and noble history.
Most of these architects chose to enhance their crowning works with clear geometric elements of Gothic inspiration, with spherical, pyramidal or conical, sharp arrows, sharp or blunt pinnacles and peaks of intricate lace. But there were those who preferred to close their buildings with turrets like a medieval fortress or more in the style of Greece and Ancient Rome, which are the most common and recurrent in its simplicity, with incense burners, candlesticks, vases, urns, pineapples, etc. .
If you look up and look at those "small" details, we will see a world of eras and styles, from those mentioned above, to those used in our days, through Renaissance, classical French Rococo and neoclassical.
Dear friends, readers, and why not, enemies, if any, do not you worry that you gasp caught in the middle of the street looking up, because that means you are enthralled enjoying a collection of architectural ornaments, for being a few feet over our eyes, we seem to forget to watch.
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