These are also not mine and are mostly post cards or images from tourist sites.
I really don't know why that one only is almost white.
These two are from the fake cliff dwellings.
That is a scene of the streets of old Manitou. I loved all of those little quaint shops where the money flows out of your pockets into the shop keepers, proving that gold can still be found in Colorado.
This a post card scene from the Castle Miramont. We took the tour here and bought one of the fancy bottles of mineral water.
Father Jean Baptiste Francolon came to Manitou in 1892 as a missionary priest. He asked that the Sisters of Mercy come there to help with healing the sick.
From what I was told then the land had passed hands a few times before this and Francolon had the castle built not only for his mother who came from Mexico to live there but also as a "hospital" for healing the poor and the very sick. The spring water here was supposed to work miracles.
We paid for the tour and enjoyed the beautiful rooms we were shown but saw nothing that looked like it could have been used to house a hospital. Maybe we just didn't get the right tour and maybe it was all gone by then. There were lovely flower gardens.
We bought a bottle of the famous water and a couple of postcards. I had no desire to return. It was interesting but not something I cared to repeat.
You can find out more about the castle HERE.
It says on one of those pages:
The Sisters of Mercy came to Manitou at the behest of Fr. Francolon, who had donated his first Manitou home for their use as a sanitarium, primarily for the treatment of tuberculosis.