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I played hooky today and spent the day with the inventor of the egg carton and refrigerator shipping (the same great lady!), the creator of Thanksgiving and Mary Had a Little Lamb (the same lady!), a signer of The Declaration of Independence, the voice of the Phillies, an Arctic explorer, Titanic victims and many many more! I spent the day at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia. A cemetery on my visit wish list! One more off the list! I got to half of it. HALF! I missed some major monuments, but there was just no time! If you enjoy Victorian art, you must visit this cemetery…it’s more art garden than graveyard. So pick a nice day…bring along a picnic basket and make the day of it!
Laurel Hill Cemetery is a great cemetery. It would be a great thing if all cemeteries could be like Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, PA. They get the community involved by having fun events (not just tours) in the cemetery itself. Folktales, music, balls, banquets…all in the cemetery. It’s exactly what the founders wanted. A city park that is open for all. There just happens to be people buried there, that’s all!
The following info was taken from www.thelaurelhillcemetery.org If you live in the Philadelphia area and have not checked out the great events at the cemetery, you must do so!
Picnics, strolls, carriage rides and sightseeing were popular pastimes in Laurel Hill’s early days, when “nearly 30,000 persons…entered the gates between April and December, 1848.” The site continues to remain a favored retreat for tourists, joggers, bicyclists, nature lovers, sketch artists and amateur photographers.
Laurel Hill is one of the few cemeteries in the nation to be honored with the designation of National Historic Landmark, a title received in 1998. Numerous prominent people are buried at the Cemetery, including many of Philadelphia’s leading industrial magnates. Names such as Rittenhouse, Widener, Elkins and Strawbridge certainly pique local interests, but Laurel Hill also appeals to a national audience. General Meade and thirty-nine other Civil War-era generals reside here, in addition to six Titanic passengers. As in its earliest days, Laurel Hill’s natural beauty and serenity continue to render it a bucolic retreat nestled within the city’s limits overlooking the Schuylkill River. This beautiful green space is further complemented by the breathtaking art, sculpture and architecture that can be found here. These are just some of the many attributes that render Laurel Hill Cemetery a primary destination for local and national visitors to the City of Brotherly Love.
Picnics, strolls, carriage rides and sightseeing were popular pastimes in Laurel Hill’s early days, when “nearly 30,000 persons…entered the gates between April and December, 1848.” The site continues to remain a favored retreat for tourists, joggers, bicyclists, nature lovers, sketch artists and amateur photographers.
History
In late 1835, John Jay Smith, a Quaker and librarian, recorded in his diary: “The City of Philadelphia has been increasing so rapidly of late years that the living population has multiplied beyond the means of accommodation for the dead…on recently visiting Friends grave yard in Cherry Street I found it impossible to designate the resting place of a darling daughter, determined me to endeavor to procure for the citizens a suitable, neat and orderly location for a rural cemetery.”
Smith’s very personal experience ultimately had very public implications, as less than one year later, this grieving father founded Laurel Hill Cemetery with partners Nathan Dunn, Benjamin W. Richards and Frederick Brown. When Smith conceived of Laurel Hill, he envisioned something fundamentally different from the burial places that came before it, and the site has continued to hold an important place of distinction as one of the first cemeteries of its kind. Key concepts to Laurel Hill’s founding were that it had to be situated in a picturesque location well outside the city; that it had no religious affiliation; and that it provided a permanent burial space for the dead in a restful and tranquil setting.
Italy. Tuscany.
Florence - Firenze
Piazza Santa Trinita
The Piazza Santa Trinita is a triangular square in Florence, Italy, named after the church of Santa Trinita on the west side of the square. Near the middle of the square is an ancient Roman column known as the Column of Justice due to the sculpture of "Justice" on the top. Several Renaissance palazzos surround the square, as well as the medieval Palazzo Spini-Ferroni, now the headquarters, flagship store, and museum of famous Italian shoe designer Salvatore Ferragamo.
On the “Molo” are two massive granite columns which were brought back from the East in the 12th century. Each column is topped by a Patron Saint of Venice from two different periods of the city’s history. Facing the Molo to the left is St. Theodore. St. Theodore was a 3rd century Roman soldier who was not willing to worship pagan deities and was therefore condemned to death. The statue of St. Theodore on top of the column of Venice has an alligator/dragon underfoot. According to legend, St. Theodore armed himself with the sign of the cross and slew a dragon, symbolizing his power to vanquish evil.
The Winged Lion on top of the second granite column on the Molo is the symbol of another Patron Saint of Venice, St. Mark, one of the four Evangelists of the Christian faith.
Near Vik, Iceland.
This is a stereographic projection of an equirectangular panorama, stitched from 18 bracketted (blended in Enfuse) hand-held shots.
Enjoy the interactive panorama.
Part of my Planetoids set.
Chiricahua National Monument in southeastern Arizona. Rhyolite hoodoos or columns in a mountain valley.
One of the columns fell over, and you can see how it was put together - not carved from a single piece, but put layer-on-layer like a cake.
The copper-clad columns separating the building's covered parking. These spaces are in the back of the building by a private entrance, originally for the owners of the two-story residences.
Columns of the Xerxes Gate (The Gate of All Nations) at Persepolis, Fars Province, Iran. The gate was built by Xerxes I (ruled 486 BC-465 BC). Founded by Darius the Great (Darius I, ruled 522 BC-486 BC), Persepolis served as the seat of the Achaemenid Empire and was the setting for official receptions and festivals. The Macedonian king Alexander the Great destroyed the city in 330 BC. Excavations at the site began in 1931 and Persepolis was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979.
Fotos de José Prieto para Catedrales e Iglesias
© Álbum 2249
By Catedrales e Iglesias
Arquidiócesis de Barcelona
Sitio Oficial de la Aquidiócesis de Barcelona
www.arqbcn.org/portada?lang=es&
Forma parte del conjunto del Monasterio de Sant Pau del Camp, del siglo XII. Fue el conjunto románico más notable de la ciudad. Del cenobio queda la iglesia de planta de cruz latina, tres ábsides y cúpula en el transepto. En el interior destaca el claustro con arcos trilobulados y columnas gemelas, ya del siglo XIII, que lo hacen único en Cataluña.
La puerta occidental es interesante por el uso de capiteles visigóticos en las columnas de apoyo y por el tímpano con Cristo en Majestad rodeado por San Pedro y San Pablo.
Se encuentra en el popular 'Barrio chino' de Barcelona.
* Dirección:
Calle Sant Pau 101
* Teléfono: 934 410 001
Not online much right now as internet is not available much. But thought I would post something while I could.
A portion of one of the 44 polished limestone columns in the Church of the Nativity, many of which date back to the original basilica that was built in May of the year 339 by the Roman emperor Constantine and his mother, St. Helena. The columns are covered with paintings of saints and the Virgin Mary.
The Church of the Nativity stands above the traditional birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem.
Taken by Anna James.
This beautiful memorial covers WW1 and WW2 also the tragic accident at Bere Ferrers Station in1917 on the 24th of September. Ten soilders were being transported from Plymouth to Salisbury folowing their arival in Britain. At Bere ferrers Station they alighted from their troop train on the wrong side of the train between the tracks. they were struck and killed by an oncoming express train. All so very tragic. Every year a service is held with a New Zealand representive being pressent from the services. Shot with the Sony 717. and Polariser .
Evripidou as building: documentation of construction & infrastructure.
A seminar of INSTEAD postgraduate program with Platon Isaias.
St John or the Apostle John was the writer of the Fourth Gospel and the book of Revelation. The accounts of the Gospels agree that he is the son of Zebedee; together with his brother James, began to follow Jesus while fishing in the Lake Galilee. He became one of the Christ’s closest disciples and was with him on various significant events such as the Transfiguration and the Crucifixion. At his writings when Jesus was on his torture stake he said that : ‘Mother, this is your Son’. And to his beloved disciple, ‘this is Your Mother’(John 19:26-27).The beloved disciple is thought to have been St John.
These beautiful columns can be found in the cloister of Monreale Cathedral in Sicily. They are undoubtedly the most ornate and wonderful I have seen. I don't know if they brought peace and tranquility to those who walked the cloister then but I sure would be happy to amble past them everyday !!
More fun with hot tub abstracts: throwing some on the wall to see what sticks. (After all, in the last batch the shots that were afterthoughts got the most attention, and my clear personal favorite of the bunch got the least!)
Again, the new tub is illuminated with an LED which can be programmed for different colors, and the bubbles from the filtration system come up right in front of the light, making for interesting colored displays.