Greetings from Loyola, Spain

I´ve arrived safely in Loyola, Spain and will be here--pre-pilgrimage--at a conference this week. This is Saint Ignatius Loyola´s birthplace (he´s the founder of the Jesuits), and his family home--a beautiful but modest castle--still stands. It´s about three stories, dates from late medieval times. It´s now a museum, though there is also a large church and conference center as part of the complex. This part of Spain, in the Basque country, is quite beautiful. Lush and moutainous, and Loyola´s family castle is in a valley amidst this landscape.
But somethings is odd in this beautiful setting! Completely surrounding Loyola´s castle is an ugly, concrete building in the style that a Soviet architect of the 1950s would love (so imagine Loyola´s castle with an ugly rectangular donut surrounding it). You can´t see the castle from the surrounding area, and you can´t see the landscape from inside the castle--just the stone walls of the ugly donut. Well, I´m sure it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Loyola´s room is preserved, and it´s important and famous in Jesuit history because his conversion experience happened here (more to follow on this, perhaps!)