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The Holy Trinity Column stands tall in Ljubljana's Prešeren Square, a beautiful example of Baroque architecture
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Leptis Magna appears to have been founded by Phoenician colonists sometime around 1100 BC, who gave it the Lybico-Berber name Lpqy. The town did not achieve prominence until Carthage became a major power in the Mediterranean Sea in the 4th century BC. It nominally remained part of Carthage's dominions until the end of the Third Punic War in 146 BC and then became part of the Roman Republic, although from about 200 BC onward, it was for all intents and purposes an independent city. Leptis Magna remained as such until the reign of the Roman emperor Tiberius, when the city and the surrounding area were formally incorporated into the empire as part of the province of Africa. It soon became one of the leading cities of Roman Africa and a major trading post. Leptis achieved its greatest prominence beginning in 193, when a native son, Lucius Septimius Severus, became emperor. He favored his hometown above all other provincial cities, and the buildings and wealth he lavished on it made Leptis Magna the third-most important city in Africa, rivaling Carthage and Alexandria. In 205, he and the imperial family visited the city and received great honors. Among the changes that Severus introduced were to create a magnificent new forum and to rebuild the docks. The natural harbour had a tendency to silt up, but the Severan changes made this worse, and the eastern wharves are extremely well preserved, since they were hardly used.
Leptis over-extended itself at this period. During the Crisis of the Third Century, when trade declined precipitously, Leptis Magna's importance also fell into a decline, and by the middle of the fourth century, large parts of the city had been abandoned. Ammianus Marcellinus recounts that the crisis was worsened by a corrupt Roman governor named Romanus during a major tribal raid who demanded bribes to protect the city. The ruined city could not pay these and complained to the emperor Valentianian. Romanus then bribed people at court and arranged for the Leptan envoys to be punished "for bringing false accusations". It enjoyed a minor renaissance beginning in the reign of the emperor Theodosius I. In 439, Leptis Magna and the rest of the cities of Tripolitania fell under the control of the Vandals when their king, Gaiseric, captured Carthage from the Romans and made it his capital. Unfortunately for the future of Leptis Magna, Gaiseric ordered the city's walls demolished so as to dissuade its people from rebelling against Vandal rule. The people of Leptis and the Vandals both paid a heavy price for this in 523 when a group of Berber raiders sacked the city.
Belisarius recaptured Leptis Magna in the name of Rome ten years later, and in 534, he destroyed the kingdom of the Vandals. Leptis became a provincial capital of the Eastern Roman Empire but never recovered from the destruction wreaked upon it by the Berbers. It was the site of a massacre of Berber chiefs of the Leuathae tribal confederation by the Roman authorities in 543. By the time of the Arab conquest of Tripolitania in the 650s, the city was abandoned except for a Byzantine garrison force.
The Arch of Septimius Severus is a triumphal arch in Leptis Magna, located in present-day Libya. It was commissioned by the Libya-born Roman Emperor Septimius Severus. The arch was in ruins but was pieced back together by archeologists after its discovery in 1928.
It must be fun being a geologist in Iceland.
At this place (which of course comes with a rust-red crater as a backdrop just nearby), has basalt columns up to 14 meters high. Each column has a diameter of 1-1,5 metres. Just below there are a pile of cubes with the same shape, that looks like they have dropped of the cliff. And this is not just a single place - it goes on for half a kilometer.
A short stop on our way back from the Snæfellsnes peninsula to Reykjavik.
Sanford, Florida - 01/09/11
More monochrome goodness from the Sanford photo walk with fellow Flickr-ers (DigitlSLG, Don Sullivan, and DugJax).
Been rediscovering the love of B&W lately. Hope you don't get tired of them.
About the 10.000 volunteers foreign soldiers who fought and gave their life for France against invaders during WWII. This memorial is for them. Thank you.
En 1939, la volonté farouche de 10.000 engagés volontaires étrangers qui ont donné leur vie pour la France contre l’envahisseur.
On the way to Cannon Beach we stopped at the 125 foot tall Astor Column which was dedicated in 1926. It features a hand painted spiral frieze that would stretch more than 500 hundred feet if unwound.
Attempting to do 365 days of black and white. Each picture connecting with the day’s before photo.
The Tenantry column is 83 feet (25 m) tall and topped by the Percy Lion, symbol of the historic Percy family. It was designed by the Newcastle architect David Stephenson and erected as thanks to the second Duke of Northumberland, by tenants of the Duke in 1816, following a reduction by the Duke in their rents
Templo de Zeus, en Atenas (Grecia), con la Acrópolis y el Partenón al fondo; Temple of Zeus, in Athens (Greece), with the Akropolis and the Parthenon at the background
el claustre del monestir de Sant Cugat del Vallès
El més destacat de tot el conjunt del monestir de Sant Cugat és el seu impressionant claustre. Es tracta d'un clar exemple de l'art romà nic català i va ser construït al segle XII sobre un d'anterior. En el segle XVI se li va afegir un segon pis i es va construir també l'atri d'entrada.
Dins el jardà del claustre es poden observar les restes de la primera basÃlica del segle V i el lloc on la tradició diu que s'hi va enterrar i venerar a sant Cugat.
La seva planta és gairebé, amb una longitud de més de 30 m. Cada galeria consta de quinze arcs de mig punt sustentats en dotze parelles de columnes i pilars als extrems i cada cinc arcs. Cadascuna d'aquestes columnes està decorada amb capitells finament elaborats, amb detalls variats que van des de la representació d'animals a les escenes bÃbliques.
Cap a l'any 1190 va arribar un taller d'escultors procedents de la catedral de Girona, on hi havien treballat durant uns 10 anys. És per això que tots dos guarden moltes similituds pel que fa als motius esculpits dels seus capitells.
Els murs exteriors estan recorreguts per un fris d'arcs cecs amb mènsules decorades amb caps d'animals. Aquest fris ens recorda molt al que podem trobar a Sant Pere de Galligants de Girona. El pis superior es va construir al segle XVI i el fris en el que se sustentava la teulada, va quedar com un element merament decoratiu.
segueix en un interessant article de la wiki ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monestir_de_Sant_Cugat
Aquà teniu una descripció força detallada de tots els capitells
www.claustro.com/Claustros/Webpages/Barcelona/Claustros_S...
The Columns and Jesse Hall on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia by Notley Hawkins Photography. Taken with a Sony ILCE-7RM3 camera with a Sony FE 16-35mm F2.8 GM lens at Æ’/9.0 with a 50 second exposure at ISO 50. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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