Safed, legenda i stvarnost: arhitektura starog grada

Abstract

U Izraelu je autorka teksta provela tri mjeseca, radeći na dokumentovanju objekata spomeničke vrijednosti. Od grada Safeda na sjeveru, kojem zima donese snijeg na vrhovima planina Meron i Ka'anan, do pustinje Negev, Ber-Ševe ili Dimone na jugu, mnoštvo stvari se u prostoru dešava; mnoštvo gradova živi svoju različitu istoriju i različitu ljepotu. Safed je radionica arhitekata, skulptora i slikara, koji dolaze da vrijednim objektima ili ruševinama pomognu da produže svoj vijek i odžive ga što dostojanstvenije. Kamena arhitektura Safeda, potpuno unikatna i neponovljiva, građena baš po mjeri određene padine, sadrži elemente koji joj, uslovno rečeno, ne pripadaju, nisu autohtoni. Istorija Safeda obiluje dramatičnim i žestokim preokretima, borbama, pomorima, glađu i epidemijama; čitave vojske raznih zala napadale su kameni grad, ali on je, nekim sretnim čudom, uvijek ostajao i opstajao, te nikad nije sasvim prestao da postoji.

The author spent three months in Israel, working on documenting the objects of the monument values. From the city Safed in the north, which winter brings snow on the peaks of the mountains of Meron and Ka'anan, to the deserts of the Negev, Be'er Sheva or Dimona in the south, many things happen in space; many cities live their different history and different beauty. Safed is a workshop of architects, sculptors, and painters, who come to help valuable objects or ruins extend their life and make it as dignified as possible. Safed stone architecture, completely unique, built just to the extent of a certain slope, contains elements that, conditionally, do not belong to it, are not indigenous. Safed's history abounds with dramatic and fierce turnarounds, struggles, seas, famines, and epidemics; whole armies of various evils attacked the stone city, but with a lucky miracle, it always remained and survived, and never quite ceased to exist.