New images of New Norcia, a Spanish mission in the bush
The Conversation - 12 August 2014, 6.24am AEST
Author: Ted Snell, Winthrop Professor, Director Cultural Precinct at University of Western Australia
Local students with New Norcia schoolmistress Judith Butler. New Norcia Museum and Art Gallery
A new exhibition at New Norcia in Western Australia sheds new life on the extraordinary life of the historic township’s founder.
Driving from Perth to New Norcia to see a new exhibition devoted to the township’s founder, Bishop Rosendo Salvado, takes about two hours. It’s an enjoyable trip, cutting through the wide expanse of countryside, much of it cultivated, before accelerating up the forested hillsides and then swooping down into another valley of farmed land spreading out from the gently curving roads.
Breaking free from the bush a Spanish township magically materialises; the domed steeple of the Abbey church surrounded by palm trees, a walled monastery, St Gertrude’s and the crenellated St Ildephonsus College, the old flour mill and the Neo-Classical façade of the hotel rise up out of nowhere.
It’s breathtaking!
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