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The ancient pilgrimage path to the abandoned Wolfer Monastry on a rock in the Moselle Valley (Germany)
Scary white beaches and blue guitars on Scotland's geographical dangling phallus, the Kintyre peninsula
......It’s said that at the end of the rainbow, a leprechaun mines his gold from veins that pulse with a light no sun ever made. The treasure he extracts lies scattered carelessly across the blasted terrain—twisted stacks, half-melted coins, and small hills of raw gold pushed toward his ruined castle like offerings. The rutted, hidden track that leads to his crumbling keep winds through these mounds, half-swallowed by the shifting earth. He lives alone in the shadows, guarding his hoard with traps, whispers, and old, crawling curses. They say those who reach the rainbow’s end never leave whole—if they leave at all.
Another ancient and forgotten pathway. This one eventually ended at a large depression in the wood, something had been dug from the ground at some point in history.
ma lo spettacolo offerto tutt'oggi dall'antica via Valeriana, che percorre la sponda orientale del lago di Iseo per una trentina di km riserva sorprese continue.
Nel primo tratto che ho percorso nello scorso fine settimana, il vecchio acciottolato attraversa piccole colture famigliari dedite prevalentemente ad oliveto, o attività pastorali toccando qua e là antichi e bellissimi borghi.
Non mancano le case vacanze, ma non turbano eccessivamente l'armonia suggerita dalla visione del lago e di Montisola.
Low altitude
But magnificent is the ancient pedestrian path along the eastern shore of the Iseo lake, called Valeriana road.
Gives always amazing view around like this !
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Beulah Path, formerly Pig Alley, before that Hog Lane.
Amazing how passé, so called street art is in this setting.
LR3889 © Joe O'Malley 2020
Barclay Path (Looking North, the previous shot was looking South), an ancient shortcut through Victorian Walthamstow.
LR3886 © Joe O'Malley 2020
Barclay Path.
This was my occasional way to church, then way to school (78-80), I've alway's been wary of this alley, the particular reason, being that there were some nasty muggings years ago but to this day it just puts me on the defensive and reminds me of this old song lyric . . .
In the avenues and alleyways, where the soul of a man is easy to buy
Everybody's wheelin'
Everybody's dealin'
All the low and living hide
Every city's got'em, can we ever stop em
Some of us have gotta try.
LR3885 Joe O'Malley 2020
A dreamy woodland scene enveloping the ancient Penmachno Bridge in North Wales. Moss-covered rocks and the gently flowing stream create a serene foreground, while sunlight filters through a dense canopy of twisted trees. The old stone bridge—half hidden by foliage—arches gracefully over the stream, exuding the mystery of forgotten paths and timeless nature.
Beulah Path, formerly Pig Alley and before that Hog Lane.
Tidied up since the 1970's when I'd often take this route to school. Gone are the cracked and un-level paving slabs, rubbish and dog mess.
LR3888 © Joe O'Malley 2020
looking into the sun...
Stanage Pole can be found high on Hallam Moors between Stanage Edge and Redmires Reservoirs.
A wooden pole has stood here for hundreds of years marking the border of Derbyshire and South Yorkshire, Hathersage and Sheffield and probably the ancient kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria before that...
The last pole was erected in 1915 by Sheffield Corporation. However in 2015 it was in danger of falling and so was taken down for safety reasons. With the help of the British Mountaineering Council and local supporters the pole was replaced on 17th April 2016 - the 65th anniversary of the National Park.
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Farmer Road alley, towards Jack Cornwell VC park.
Look at the wear on the manhole cover from the thousands of shoes of those that have walked the path since Victorian times.
LR3887 © Joe O'Malley 2020
A sense of awe engulfs me each time I trek through the ancient paths that lace the Kumano area. On these paths man and the gods cross mountains to places of rest.
Wadi Qelt marks a stunning transition from fertile land to the vast Judean Desert. The last patches of green gradually disappear, giving way to golden hills, creating a breathtaking contrast.
This incredible view of Wadi Qelt reveals not only the stark contrast between greenery and desert but also the ancient path that has connected Jericho and Jerusalem since biblical times. It is believed that Jesus himself may have walked this very route, adding a deep spiritual significance to this timeless landscape.
Learning to write, learning to read
tasting the unknown language
touching the language of the unknown
sculpting the words, the petrified notions....
naming the things following the relief of some ancient paths
www.livius.org/arl-arz/aryans/alphabet.html
i know that the most of these tablets are part of official and administrative texts, but I still found them very beautiful, they are tactile fragments and testimonies of the very past, parts of ancient lives and stories, like the stories and the Interestingness that I can found f.ex. in a telephone directory, the lives behind the faceless numbers….
This stunning wadi carves its way through the desert, offering a mesmerizing contrast between arid cliffs and a thriving stream below. A paradise for adventurers!
Posted to celebrate the publication of Holloway by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood and Dan Richards.
Part of the Ancient Ridgeway Path National Trail...Britain's oldest Road
This 5,000 year old track was used by travellers as a trading route from the South Dorset Coast to the East Anglian Wash
Entre Cirauqui e Lorca, em Navarra, um troço notável do Caminho Francês de Santiago revela uma herança milenar. Esta secção preserva a calçada romana original, testemunho da antiga via que ligava Astorga a Bordéus e que, ao longo dos séculos, continuou a ser utilizada por peregrinos. Integrada numa das etapas mais históricas do Caminho, entre Puente la Reina e Estella, a calçada serpenteia entre terrenos agrícolas e pequenas elevações, oferecendo um vislumbre do vale do rio Salado. A flora local, onde se destacam os espinheiros-alvar, emoldura este percurso que representa um dos vestígios romanos mais bem conservados da Península Ibérica, evidenciando mais de 2000 anos de história como fundamental via de comunicação.
Between Cirauqui and Lorca, in Navarra, a remarkable stretch of the French Way of Santiago reveals an ancient heritage. This section preserves the original Roman pavement, testimony of the ancient road that connected Astorga to Bordeaux and that, over the centuries, continued to be used by pilgrims. Integrated into one of the most historic stages of the Way, between Puente la Reina and Estella, the sidewalk winds between agricultural land and small elevations, offering a glimpse of the Salado river valley. The local flora, where the hawthorns stand out, frames this route that represents one of the best preserved Roman remains of the Iberian Peninsula, evidencing more than 2000 years of history as a fundamental communication route.
Sally Thomson's painting of the holloway/drove road known as Chettle Hole, coming off Corton Down in Wiltshire, posted to celebrate the publication of Holloway by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood and Dan Richards.
This angle is named "Nido D'Amore" (Love Nest)...
Actually I immediately thought to tale's White Rabbit :DDD
A charming place... tiring, bur charming. :)
From Unesco Site:
"The Villa Gregoriana was created out of the necessity to defend the town of Tivoli from the ruinous floods of the Aniene. The villa is positioned in a very steep valley, in ancient times called the "Valley of Hell", carved out at the foot at the ancient acropolis of Tivoli by the river which here, in two drops, descends over 130 metres. The site was strategically important in the communications between the shepherding peoples of the Aniene Valley and the Tiber Plain from the archaic age. It was here that, upstream of the great waterfall and subject to the supervision (and tolls) of the Tiburtine Acropolis, the first bridge had been built. This position was one of the strategic reasons for the birth of the ancient Tibur, and the rocky spur on which the acropolis and the ancient residential area arose because it was geologically and hydrologically very difficult, was "cultivated" at least from the 2nd century AD. In fact, also thanks to the calcareous and karstic nature of the terrain, there are at least 12 known manmade hydraulic structures - ditches, canals, locks, and branches of aqueducts - without counting the remains of bridges and mills, used to divert, control, and use the variable pressure of the waters, many of which are still in use or, in any case, accessible.
The fame of the place, dating back to antiquity, is seen in numerous literary references, including verses in Horace's "Odes" and the passage from Statius's Silvae, which describe the villa of the Roman patrician Manlius Vopiscus, the remains of which are at the site.
Numerous pictorial representations of the crag of the Acropolis, with its temples and the drop of the Aniene, bear witness to the good fortune enjoyed by the place, which never ended and reached its peak between the 18th and 19th centuries: the first work done to render the place accessible to the travellers of the Grand Tour was carried out during the Napoleonic period, in 1809, as ordered by the Governor of Rome. The nature of the places was modelled according to the neoclassical taste, with the creation of avenues and belvedere stopping points and, to permit visiting the Cave of Neptune, a tunnel was dug into the rock, with side openings offering impressive views of the underlying chasms (Miollis tunnel). The ruins of the Roman Age buildings, grown wild down through the centuries, were carefully restored and integrated into the garden, where new plants were planted and paths, walkways, stairways, and utility and service rooms were laid out.
The disaster caused to the residential quarter by the flood of 1826, which had destroyed almost all the homes situated in the oldest part of the town, moved the government of the Papal State to intervene. Worldwide resonance was given to the drafting of the plans, and numerous foreign architects took part in the competition. Almost all the plans proposed the construction of high walls and embankments, diverting any floodwaters into effluents. The winning proposal was that of Clemente Folchi, who suggested diverting the bed of the Aniene. In 1832, a huge and spectacular project thus began to divert the river by means of the so-called Cunicoli Gregoriani (Gregorian Tunnels), two 300-metre tunnels of a width varying from 10 metres at the entrance to 7.20 at the exit, dug under Mount Catillo, so as to move the course of the Aniene and the falling point of the water further away from the residential area.
The project was authorized and financed by Pope Gregory XVI who, on 7 October 1835, watched the spectacle of the first prodigious drop of the water in the new great waterfall. The work was not limited to just the rerouting of the river, but also included the construction of two vast squares, Piazza Rivarola and Piazza Massimo, joined by the bridge called Ponte Gregoriano.
The Villa Gregoriana is actually an "accessory" of the primary structure, which is the hydraulic structure. Set over the ancient Roman villa of Manlius Vopiscus, the Villa was built in 1834 on the basis of the directives of Cardinal Rivarola and carried out under the control of Msgr. Massimo and the architect Folchi. The park of the Villa, which stands in the chasm of the former course of the Aniene, to the left of the great waterfall (in the so-called baratri tiburtini - Tiburtine chasms), is an admirable synthesis of the natural landscape with the well camouflaged manmade one overlapping it. Situated immediately below the ancient Acropolis of Tivoli, the Villa is dominated by the Roman temples attributed to Vesta, the Sibyl, and Tiburnus which, although they are just outside its boundaries, can rightfully be counted as part of the considerable archaeological heritage of the site. The old riverbed and the steep walls delimiting it were used to create a walkway amidst limestone formations, caves, gorges, and archaeological remains, still of impressive beauty today. A spectacular view is that of the drop of the Great Waterfall, magnificent and impressive in the powerful rush and roar of its water. Descending further, we find the dark green of holm oak, cypress, and pine trees; then the water that falls in front of the Cave of Neptune and forms a pond, then sinking into the Cave of the Sirens.
Today, the current arrangement of the site, the ownership of which was transferred in 1870 from the Papal State to the Italian Government, even if this was determined by the need to regulate the waters of the Aniene, is - with its archaeological structures, remains of various ages, and exceptional natural elements, caves and panoramic views - a place of enormous environmental, historic, and artistic value."
Devon-Somerset border, posted to celebrate the publication of Holloway by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood and Dan Richards.
Posted to celebrate the publication of Holloway by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood and Dan Richards.
This is where my brother, sister and I bathe in the morning. We use the rock to scrape the dirt and calluses off of our feet.
A holloway north of Huish, leading towards Gopher Wood near Oare, Wiltshire, posted to celebrate the publication of Holloway by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood and Dan Richards.
The girls are responsible for all of the chores - washing clothes and dishes, cooking nsima, cleaning the house, sweeping the yard, bathing the younger children, working the garden, running errands, selling things at the market - whatever needs to be done. This is my friend Love, getting ready to wash the dishes.