Gironas Call (medieval Jewish quarter) – How was the Call rediscovered?
For nearly 500 years the Call lay buried, with the legendary medieval Jewish community where the Kabbalah was first written down, all but erased from Gironas past. The old town was sealed off from above, as new houses and streets were, in successive layers, built over it. Now in an ambitious restoration project, Gironans are digging down through levels of construction and back through centuries to unearth a part of Jewish and Catalan history that began at the start of the ninth century, ended at the close of the fifteenth, and then slowly faded from public memory until it was completely forgotten.
For nearly 500 years the Call lay buried, with the legendary medieval Jewish community where the Kabbalah was first written down, all but erased from Girona s past. The old town was sealed off from above, as new houses and streets were, in successive layers, built over it. Now in an ambitious restoration project, Gironans are digging down through levels of construction and back through centuries to unearth a part of Jewish and Catalan history that began at the start of the ninth century, ended at the close of the fifteenth, and then slowly faded from public memory until it was completely forgotten.
