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Une visibilité remarquable ce 20 Août 2015 grâce au flux de Nord(Mistral,Tramontane),si bien que le Canigou(2784m) à 264km est bien visible du Terril de Gardanne(388m),la pente(environ 40°) est très raide pour monter au sommet du terril mais elle n'est pas longue.15 secondes de pose pour cette image.
23 Mars 2018 depuis le Montauron au Nord de Vauvenargues le Canigou(2784m) à 281km de distance, ciel assez sombre vers les pyrénées en mettant la photo en noir et blanc on voit mieux le Canigou
...situado en los Pirineos.
Ciudad medieval del siglo XI ,fortificada por Vauban en el siglo XVII , en el corazón de los Pireneos Orientales , al pie del Canigou. Clasificada entre los más Bonitos Pueblos de Francia , Villefranche es uno de los 14 sitios de la obra de Vauban en la clasificación de la UNESCO. En el interior de estas fortificaciones, en sus calles estrechas, existe una actividad artisanal y comercial pintoresca.
Hoy tampoco puedo comentar... lo siento, chic@s.... Jejejeje
Mistral fort et donc belle visibilité depuis la Croix de Provence(946m):à 277,7km de distance le Canigou(2784m) visible de 18h25 à 19h25,c'est vers 19h10 qu'il fût le plus visible .Le Soleil émit son dernier rayon visible de la Croix de Provence vers 18h38mn25s,de la Croix de Provence le Soleil se couche environ 6mn plus tard que si cette dernière était à 0m d'altitude alors qu'elle est à 946m d'altitude.
Depuis la Tour de César(427m) au Nord-est d'Aix-en-Provence,le Canigou(2784m) à 271,7km de distance,son image est affectée par une très forte réfraction dû à un léger vent du Sud sur le roussillon.En cas de réfraction standard le Canigou dépasse à peine le Radar de vitrolles(la boule à droite) ici il est beaucoup plus haut que le radar grâce à la très forte réfraction.
23 Décembre 2016 à Pierrefiche dans la foret de Peyrolles en Provence à 520m d'altitude le Canigou(2784m) à 279km
An oratorium here is recorded already in 996. Count Guifred Cabreta, grandson of Wilfred the Hairy (a person I was interested in since ages. We will "meet" him later) donated land and funds for the erection of a monastery in atonement for the murder of his own son.
The abbey was built around the older oratorium and already 1009 a church was consecrated and dedicated to Saint Martin by the Bishop of Elne, who was Count Guifred´s brother. In the document a monk named Sclua is mentioned as the builder. Sclua may have been, what was later called an architect.
In 1012 the relics of Saint Gauderique were transferred to Saint-Martin, adding importance to the place.
Following a medievial tradition (eg William of Gellone, Bernard II, Lord of Lippe) Count Guifried later left his wife, quit his worldy (sinful) life and entered the Benedictian convent here as a monk. He died at this monastery in 1049.
Shortly after that the importance of the monastery dwindeled dramatically. An earthquake ruined the monastery in 1428. The rebuilding took decades.
The small, remote convent was later threatend by food-shortage as well as by gangs of smugglers and raiders, who filled the frontier area with terror, the monastery was secularized. In 1781 the last five monks and the abbot left the buildings. The complex fell into disrepair and were used as a stone quarry by local home-builders.
In 1902 the bishop of Elne and Perpignan bought the ruins and started a pretty radical restauration. Some buildings were even added, to accomodate visitors. In 1922 a number of capitals could be bought back, that had once belonged to the cloister and "got lost" after the French Revolution.
Even if this is not "original" in many aspects, even if it may "lack some character", like some authors wrote, it is a wonderful complex, and as Marcel Durliat wrote, a church "premier art roman méridional", as it is older than most of the other romanesque buildings in Southern France.
In 1922 a number of capitals "returned home", after they had spent about a century in a villa in Vernet-les-Bains. It was known, that two cloisters had existed, similar to Elne. The lower one was built within the 11th, the upper one within the 12th century. As the exact place of the capitals could not be found out anymore, and only one cloister got (partly) reconstructed, an open gallery was erected.
There are some capitals, made from reddish marble cut in quarries near Villefranche-de-Conflent (14kms north), are younger (12th), have a different geometry and show a totally different iconography, not using the well known patterns. These carvings are "storytelling", but in most cases I could not find the stories that are told. Even Marcel Durliat does not offer an explanation.
The same capital, seen on the previous upload, now focussed on that strange "bishop". This is in deed very weird. I cannot make out the animal. Durliat describes this as a "bisexual, leering creature". Anyway, the creature (see the hands and feet!) does not wear the mitra correctly, as it is turned to the side. To the right a dog hangs upside down, protruding a very long tongue.
There has been a conflict in 1114, when this convent lost it´s independence to the abbey of Sainte-Marie de Lagrasse, what the monks never accepted, so that monks from Lagrasse in 1162 even attacked this abbey with the help of mercenary soldiers, looting the monastery, killing at least one person and beating up, whomever the could find.
So there is a theorie, that these grotesque capitals were carved, after that conflict was settled (around 1170) - and Saint-Martin-du-Canigou had won the independence back.
Depuis le Pissolier(499m) au Sud-est de Meyrargues(13) le soleil se couche à gauche, à droite le massif du Canigou(2784m) à 279 km de distance, massif dont la partie inférieure est masqué par des collines au Nord de Martigues.
Depuis la Tour des Opies(493m) point culminant des Alpilles le Soleil passe derrière le Canigou(2784m) à 244 km de distance.L'azimut du coucher du soleil est de 57,35°(au niveau de la mer)compté à partir du sud l'azimut avec le Canigou est de 58°,en fait L'azimut du coucher du soleil est de 58,2° car on est à 493 m d'altitude et le soleil se couche un peu plus au nord que si on était au niveau de la mer.
Le pic du Canigou véritable "Olympe" du peuple catalan est le haut sommet oriental de la chaîne des Pyrénées (2 784 m d'altitude).
Le 27 Décembre 2013 depuis la Tour des Opies(493m) point culminant des Alpilles le soleil passe derrière le Canigou(2784m) à 244km de distance.96 photos pour cette animation.
Le 1 Septembre 2014 depuis la Tour de César la Lune passe derrière le Pic du Canigou(2784m) à 272 km de distance le radar de Vitrolles est visible(les trois point lumineux devant le Barbet sommet juste à gauche du Canigou);l'azimut du coucher de lune compté à partir du Sud était de 65,56° l'azimut du canigou de 66,14° depuis la tour de César mais comme on est à 427 m d'altitude la lune se couche un peu plus vers le Nord que 65,56° donc derrière le Canigou,la Lune était a 40%
Coucher de Soleil sur le Canigou(2784m) depuis le point culminant(394m) des falaises de Cassis le 24 Octobre 2018.
An oratorium here is recorded already in 996. Count Guifred Cabreta, grandson of Wilfred the Hairy (a person I am interested in since ages. We will "meet" him later) donated land and funds for the erection of a monastery in atonement for the murder of his own son.
The abbey was built around the older oratorium and already 1009 a church was consecrated by the Bishop of Elne, who was coincidentally (!) Count Guifred´s brother. In the document a monk named Sclua is mentioned as the builder. Sclua, who later ws abbot here, may have been, what was later called an architect.
In 1012 the relics of Saint Gauderique were transferred to Saint-Martin, adding importance to the place.
Following a medievial tradition (eg William of Gellone, Bernard II, Lord of Lippe) Count Guifried later left his wife, quit his worldy (sinful) life and entered the Benedictian convent here as a monk. He died at this monastery in 1049.
Shortly after that the importance of the monastery dwindeled dramatically. An earthquake ruined the monastery in 1428. The rebuilding took decades.
The small, remote convent was later threatend by food-shortage as well as by gangs of smugglers and raiders, who filled the frontier area with terror, the monastery was secularized. In 1781 the last five monks and the abbot left the buildings. The complex fell into disrepair and were used as a stone quarry by local home-builders.
In 1902 the bishop of Elne and Perpignan bought the ruins and started a pretty radical restauration. Some large buildings were even added, to accomodate visitors. In 1922 a number of capitals could be bought back, that had once belonged to the cloister and "got lost" after the French Revolution. As nobody knew, where they had been placed originally, a kind of open gallery was built (that of course never existed).
Even if this is not "original" in many aspects, even if it may "lack some character", like some authors wrote, it is a wonderful complex, and as Marcel Durliar wrote, a church "premier art roman méridional", as it is older than most of the other romanesque buildings in Southern France.
Here now an overview.
90% of all visitors, who walked up the the abbey, will as well walk up to the look out built around the modern water tank, from where this photo is taken. This is the "kodak-point".
Le Canigou(2784m) à 277km vu de la montagne Sainte-Victoire ce 30 01 2019,photo prise à 600m d'altitude dans la descente de La Croix de Provence(946m).
Canigou à 264,8km,ND de la Garde à 12,7km.il faut pour cet alignement être à un endroit bien précis et à une altitude bien précise hier c'était 280m d'altitude car réfraction fortement en cas de réfraction normale il faudra remonter un peu vers 290m d'altitude.
Depuis la Tour de César(427m) au Nord-est d'Aix-en-Provence le ciel se pare de multiples couleurs au crépuscule,Mistral et Tramontane ont bien clarifié l'atmosphère et le Canigou(2784m) est bien visible à 272km de distance légèrement à droite de la photo.
Depuis la Tête de l'Estrop(2961m) dans les Alpes de Digne le Canigou à 381km de distance.Photo infra rouge 1000nm prise le 13 08 2017 18mn après lever du soleil
A gauche la Lune est sur le Puig sec(2665m) ensuite l'image d'après Puig Sec et Canigou(2784m) et à droite Pic du Canigou(2784m).
An oratorium here is recorded already in 996. Count Guifred Cabreta, grandson of Wilfred the Hairy (a person I was interested in since ages. We will "meet" him later) donated land and funds for the erection of a monastery in atonement for the murder of his own son.
The abbey was built around the older oratorium and already 1009 a church was consecrated and dedicated to Saint Martin by the Bishop of Elne, who was Count GuifredŽs brother. In the document a monk named Sclua is mentioned as the builder. Sclua may have been, what was later called an architect.
In 1012 the relics of Saint Gauderique were transferred to Saint-Martin, adding importance to the place.
Following a medievial tradition (eg William of Gellone, Bernard II, Lord of Lippe) Count Guifried later left his wife, quit his worldy (sinful) life and entered the Benedictian convent here as a monk. He died at this monastery in 1049.
Shortly after that the importance of the monastery dwindeled dramatically. An earthquake ruined the monastery in 1428. The rebuilding took decades.
The small, remote convent was later threatend by food-shortage as well as by gangs of smugglers and raiders, who filled the frontier area with terror, the monastery was secularized. In 1781 the last five monks and the abbot left the buildings. The complex fell into disrepair and were used as a stone quarry by local home-builders.
In 1902 the bishop of Elne and Perpignan bought the ruins and started a pretty radical restauration. Some buildings were even added, to accomodate visitors. In 1922 a number of capitals could be bought back, that had once belonged to the cloister and "got lost" after the French Revolution.
Even if this is not "original" in many aspects, even if it may "lack some character", like some authors wrote, it is a wonderful complex, and as Marcel Durliat wrote, a church "premier art roman méridional", as it is older than most of the other romanesque buildings in Southern France.
The total length of the upper church in Saint-Martin-du-Canigou is about 24 meters, the central nave is about 3 meters wide. It is difficult to take a photo of the whole church - as all visitors are toured through the abbey in groups. So there are always a couple of others, who walk or stand, where they should not - for the photo. The young lady, that acted as out tourguide was so friendly, to give me half a minute "extra-time, when all others had left already. I could take this photo. You can see her, waiting for me at the door to the right.
Merci beaucoup Madame!