Space

Internal Space Analysis

In this point it will be established where the story happens. Which are the places named in the text, where are they and which paths Attilia cover in her travels.

In Builders, we have a rough description of the place, as we are told of the wasteland were the Austro-Turkish war took place. Many names of buildings of the area are given, but what proves really useful for us to place the events will be, in this particular place, the rivers.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Savarivermap.png

This is a map of the Sava River watershed. Karl Musser, created it based on USGS data.

 

Some rivers are named as the builders’ favourite places to build, the banks of the Danube and the Drina, both in the area of the Balkans. In the other chapters, a different river is named as the place where the church and palace are going to be built, and where Attilia and Nikolich live, the river Tisa, in dark blue in the image below.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Thiz_river.jpg

 

The main story is placed around these places, in a city named Ada. However, when Attilia finds the church of the Holy Mother of God, it is placed in Temishvar, thirty miles east from Ada, in western Romania.

 

http://www.nature.com/hdy/journal/v93/n3/fig_tab/6800504f1.html - figure-title

 

The last chapter is the most interesting travel, as it goes from Ada to Austria, crossing Budapest and Viena to get to Kremsmünster monastery. The following map shows this travel. The lowest green point is Ada, north from Belgrade. Next stop is Budapest, a hundred and fifty miles northwest from Ada. Some 130 miles to the west they reach Vienna, and following the river Krems they finally get to Kremsmünster. The position of the points reproduces the way the stars appeared in the palace ceiling.

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Kremsmünster is a Benedictine monastery upon the river Krems, west from Vienna.:

http://www.stift-kremsmuenster.at/ The Abbey Website (only in German).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremsmunster Kremsmünster city in the Wikipedia.

http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienG/Gerhard_von_Kremsmuenster.html

http://www.archiv-verlag.at/inhalte/loseblatt/oberoesterreich_edition/ooe_edition.html

 

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