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| The whole gang (minus the teacher) at the Cloisters. |
Last week, we took the A train to 190th St., rode the elevator to the upper subway entrance and found ourselves in front of Fort Tryon Park high above the Hudson River. The views were spectacular.
After a nice, leisurely stroll through the park, stopping to take photos, admiring the views of the river, and getting lost for a few minutes, the Cloisters eventually came into view like an old monastery on a hill. It was quiet and calm; the sun was out; there was a nice breeze, and a couple of students commented that we could easily have been walking a winding road in the French or Italian countryside.
Our visit was too short as it took awhile to travel there from Midtown, but we had enough time to check out the cloisters, which were covered walkways that monks had actually used centuries ago to cross a courtyard from one building to another, the gardens that featured plants that grew in similar gardens in the Middle Ages, and the exhibits that the students in Explore NYC, I'm sure, will write about in following posts.
Many things impressed us. Among them was the building itself--medieval-looking, built in 1938, and housed artifacts that were probably more than a millennium years old. Be sure to check out what we've written about this experience.
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| Lukasz and Samara under the arches of a colonnade. |
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| Elsa and Cele by a fig tree. |
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| Dung Woo and Samara in the garden. |
photos by Joe Yu and Gwen de Backer
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