Pou de llum, Manresa, Spain, 05/17/2019
Pou de llum means well of light. Light symbolizes wisdom at the spiritual perspective. Sometimes call it as insight, hidden and must be cultivated human mind by practice. After the visit of Cave of Saint Ignatius, I was looking for other places in Manresa on the Internet and curious about this place. I was aware of the approximate location with Google Maps and started to search for it relying on this guide. Finally I arrived at the place that Google point me, but there was nothing! I was frustrated. It was very rainy. My whole body was damped and exhausted because of 1 hour walks for finding. After 30 minutes, I finally gave up. There was a flower garden across the street, so I asked the owner with showing smartphone. He was a man in his 50s who couldn't speak English, but seemed to know the place where the web showed with its environment. The place I found what google map pointed was correct, but was located on the top of cliff elsewhere. Fucking Google map! It guided me to the bottom of the well. Kindly enough he took me to the near place by his car. It might take more than 20 minutes for me to walk the top of the cliff. I cannot forget his kindness and consideration to a stranger who does not know Spanish. The place was taken less than 5 minutes from the Cave of Saint Ignatius. Shit, Google!
El Pou de llum , is a work of art installed by the artist Fernando Prats in 2008 on the Balconada de Manresa.Its main body consists of a deep perforation 15 meters deep, which becomes a symbol of the connection between the different geographical points of the Earth through the mystical experience. This perforation is covered with a metal lid, decorated in a spiral shape, where the names of 117 thinkers, philosophers and religious from around the world were engraved who have been associated with mystical experiences. The location of the well, on a path that skirts the hill of the Balconada, could correspond to the point where Saint Ignatius of Loyola experienced the famous Eximia Illustration of the Cardener, in one of his walks to the chapel of Saint Paul . This moment of inspiration symbolizes the birth of his apostolic mission, through a new perception of the world, as he himself explains in a famous fragment of the Autobiography, reproduced in the monument. Well of Light
The next day I came back again. The weather was fine but the spiral in which names of famous spritualist are engraved chronologically were remained with mud stain not easy to look at.
Nice view from the Pou de llum, you can see the Roman bridge and city of Manresa here.
I thoroughly enjoyed snacks with coffee and the beautiful scenery of Montserrat at the cafe near the well of light.