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The weather has been miserable, for the past 3-4 days, raining and being cold.
So, I decided to put on a more cheerful picture to remind myself of the beutiful blue skies, about a month ago.
The belltower is of a Greek church in Piraeus.
~Mississippi Blues man, Leo Bud Welch lived in
the Juke Joint world and also in the Gospel “Church”
world. His preacher told him, “I don’t prefer no blues”.
Leo apparently didn’t see any difference between
“Church” and “Juke Joint” music.~ He just played
straight from his heart.~
This impression of a small Church in
St Augustine, Florida seems reminds me of a
place where Leo Bud Welch may have played
his Gospel Blues. Well… at least in the Juke Joint
of my mind.
~”Girl in the Holler”~ Leo Bud Welch~
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The belltower of Koper's cathedral reflecting in the windows of the modern Koper university, Slovenia
Bussana Vecchia, il paese degli artisti - Sanremo (Imperia - Liguria): maestoso e quieto, governa sul borgo da secoli.
Bussana Vecchia, the country of artist - Sanremo (Imperia - Liguria): majestic and quiet, it has ruled over the village for centuries.
The belltower of the Seville Cathedral (La Capilla Real de la Catedral de Sevilla) rises above the eastern edge of the main cathedral. Both the cathedral and belltower were originally built in the 12th century by Spanish Muslims (aka the Moors), with the cathedral nearly completely replaced by a Christian cathedral in 13th and 14th centuries. The top of the belltower was damaged by an earthquake in 1356 and was eventually rebuilt in its current form in the 16th century in a Renaissance style.
On the top of the belltower is an impressive 4m/ 12’ high cast bronze sculpture of a woman carrying a flag pole with a large flat plate attached. The sculpture rotates as the wind direction changes - a wind vane known in Spanish as a giradillo, from which the name “La Giralda” Is derived. The sculpture was repaired and renovated several times, most recently in 1999-2005 during which time a full replica was put in place. That replica is now on display at the south entrance to the cathedral.
A replica of La Giralda was built in Seville’s sister city Kansas City Missouri.
Note the orange trees that line the street and the horse drawn cart, popular with tourists visiting this part of Seville.
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The elegant eighteenth-century bell tower of the Basilica of San Gaudenzio, built by Benedetto Alfieri, blends into the fog that covers the roofs of Novara. Behind the bell tower, on the left, the outline of the nineteenth-century dome of the basilica, the work of Antonelli, can hardly be glimpsed in the thick fog.
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Constructed by members of the Lecompton, Kansas United Brethren Church known as the “Radicals”. Members opposed removing a ban against membership in the Odd Fellows, Masons, and similar secret societies and defected from the main United Brethren Church in 1899. The building made of locally quarried limestone opened in 1906 as a Radical United Brethren Church. It was constructed on the footprint of an older wood church that had burned down. The church was visited by Bishop Milton Wright, the father of Wilbur and Orville Wright. He ordained a few Radical United Brethren ministers there after that group split from the United Brethren with which Lane University was associated. The church members disbanded in the 1920s. The defunct church was purchased by the city in 1932 after their offices in the Council Building were destroyed by fire. The building was placed on the Kansas Register of Historic Places in 2016. Today it is used as the Lecompton community building.
Venezia - due campanili un po' pendenti: Santo Stefano (in primo piano) e i Frari (in fondo).
Vista dalla terrazza della Basilica della Salute
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Reschensee or Lake Reschen is an artificial lake in the western portion of South Tyrol, Italy.
With its capacity of 120 million cubic metres (97,000 ac·ft) it is the largest lake in the province. Its surface area of 6.6 km² makes it also the largest lake above 1,000 m in the Alps.[1] It is fed by the Adige, Rojenbach and Karlinbach and drained by the Adige.
The lake is famous for the steeple of a submerged 14th-century church; when the water freezes, this can be reached on foot. A legend says that during winter one can still hear church bells ring. In reality the bells were removed from the tower on July 18, 1950, a week before the demolition of the church nave and the creation of the lake.
The ancient village of Quiliano, in a green valley of the Ligurian Apennines not far from the sea, has origins dating back to Roman times. The territory is covered by dense forests of oak and chestnut trees
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The medieval village of El Castell de Guadalest (known more simply as Guadalest) was fortified by the Moors in the 11th and 12th centuries.
However, it's most famous landmark, the belltower, was built between 1953 and 1963.
The few remains of the Moors' Alcozaiba castle can be seen behind the belltower.
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Fotografia feta amb la Hasselblad 500 C/M, fabricada el 1979; objectiu Carl Zeiss Planar f2.8/80mm; pel·licula Ilford FP4+ revelada en Rodinal 1+25.
La Pedra és una de les dues parts del municipi de La Coma i la Pedra, al Solsonès. Mentre que La Coma té un minim nucli urbà, a La Pedra només hi ha l'església d'origen romanic de Sant Serni, el cementiri, i unes 4 o 5 cases. El lloc és força espectacular, i veus clarament perquè es diu La Pedra.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Pedra_(la_Coma_i_la_Pedra)
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant_Serni_de_la_Pedra
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Picture taken with a Hasselblad 500 C/M, made in 1979; Carl Zeiss Planar f2.8/80mm lens; Ilford FP4+ film developed in Rodinal 1+25.
The place known as La Pedra is not even a village just a church, it's cemetery and four or five houses. It's name means "the Stone" or "the Rock" in Catalan, and seeing the location of it's Romanesque church, you see why. It's part of a village called La Coma i la Pedra, in the Catalan Pyrenees.
Another Girona view from the ancient walls.
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