Andámos a estudar este Ashram franciscano em Carmel, CA.+++
"Portola established the Carmel Mission (under the direction of Father Junípero_Serra) and presidio (still standing) in Monterey. In 1775, Monterey was made the Capital of Alta California and it remained so through Spanish, Mexican and independent California rule until American statehood took effect in 1850.
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Steinbeck was hardly the only cultural figure attracted by the beauty, silence and seclusion of the Central Coast. A century before, Richard Henry Dana and Robert Lewis Stevenson (who patterned the coastline of Treasure Island after those of Carmel Bay and Point Lobos) had settled there. Jack London, Isadora Duncan, Henry Miller, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and Jack Kerouac all lived in the area at various times. Something in the fog air of the coast has had an attraction for spiritualists and self-development movements, as well. Theosophical Society founder Madame Blavatsky was followed, in later years, by the Esalen Institute, the Tassajara Zen Center, hippies, New Ageists, and many others centered in Big Sur to the south of Carmel."
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Não é a Misión de San_Juan_Capistrano com as suas lendárias andorinhas, mas é mesmo assim um local austero e meditativo... Compro!
Steinbeck was hardly the only cultural figure attracted by the beauty, silence and seclusion of the Central Coast. A century before, Richard Henry Dana and Robert Lewis Stevenson (who patterned the coastline of Treasure Island after those of Carmel Bay and Point Lobos) had settled there. Jack London, Isadora Duncan, Henry Miller, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and Jack Kerouac all lived in the area at various times. Something in the fog air of the coast has had an attraction for spiritualists and self-development movements, as well. Theosophical Society founder Madame Blavatsky was followed, in later years, by the Esalen Institute, the Tassajara Zen Center, hippies, New Ageists, and many others centered in Big Sur to the south of Carmel."
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Não é a Misión de San_Juan_Capistrano com as suas lendárias andorinhas, mas é mesmo assim um local austero e meditativo... Compro!
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