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Κατάκολο - Pyrgos (Greece).
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Katakolo (Greek: Κατάκολο; before the 1970s: Κατάκολον or Katakolon) is a seaside town in western Ilia in the municipality of Pyrgos. Katakolo is part of the municipality of Pyrgos (Ilia). It is located south of Patras and Dounaiika, 12 km off downtown Pyrgos, west of Olympia and northwest of Messenia. The town centre is within a gulf overlooking the Ionian Sea and dividing the Kyparissian Gulf from the rest of the Ionian.
It has a small port which is the main port of Pyrgos, a school, restaurants, a church and a town square. Most impressive is surely the visit to the Municipal Museum of Ancient Greek Technology which holds 150 operating reconstructions of mechanisms and inventions of the ancient Greeks covering the period from 2000 B.C. to 100 A.D. A railway called the Katakolo-Pyrgos line goes to Katakolo. Small hills with forests surround Katakolo. Katakolo is situated on a peninsula and has a lighthouse founded southwest. The Lighthouse Katakolo (Faros Katakolo) was first opened in 1865. The port is also a frequent stop for cruise ships on tours of the Ionian and Mediterranean seas, offering an opportunity for passengers to visit the site of Ancient Olympia. Consequently, many of the shops in the town centre are geared toward foreign tourists. The other main industries includes agriculture and services.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakolo
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CASTELLANO
Katákolo (en griego Κατάκολο o Κατάκωλο) es una localidad costera de la prefectura de Élide, periferia de Grecia Occidental (Grecia). Actualmente es pedanía de Pirgos, ciudad a la que sirve de puerto. Su población censada en 2001 era de 601 habitantes.
En las cercanías de la localidad se situó el asentamiento de Feiá, cuyo puerto cobró gran importante durante la Guerra del Peloponeso. Dicho asentamiento quedó destruido en el siglo IV y desapareció bajo las aguas en el siglo VI a causa de un terremoto. Ya en época medieval la zona fue ocupada por los francos, que construyeron el castillo de Pontikókastro sobre la acrópolis de Feiá, cuyos restos se hallan actualmente 5 m bajo las aguas.
Katákolo está conectado con Pirgos mediante carretera pavimentada y vía férrea. Su puerto, que sirve a dicha ciudad, cuenta con Autoridad Portuaria y Aduana. Es una parada frecuente de los cruceros que operan entre el mar Jónico y el mar Mediterráneo, ofreciendo la posibilidad de visitar la antigua Olimpia.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kat%C3%A1kolo
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Small purple flower found in my neighborhood on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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There's a new fun piece of public art along the Embarcadero in San Francisco. It's whimsical, retro, and eyecatching, particularly on a gray December day. Everyone who passes by stops to read the placard and snap a few pictures. The rocketship previously landed at Burning Man in 2009.
Read all about it here:
www5.sfgov.org/sf_news/2010/08/mayor-unveils-monumental-r...
and here:
www.blackrockarts.org/projects/raygun-gothic-rocketship
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This ring has a sparkling combo of metals. It is Copper and silver that is melting together in an urban and contemporary style.
A perfect statement piece!
This little tree about40 centimetres tall is growing out of the top of a wall alongside a lane in Beith. It looks just likea miniature version of an adult tree. Quite eyecatching.
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Every year this mushrooms grow up in my backyard! I love them! They look so fairytale eyecatching!
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An interesting folly that we ran across by accident while out driving:
'Dunstall Castle: Designed by Robert Adam, this eyecatching folly, built around 1766, is cut off from the park as it is hidden by trees from within the park. The right arch had a wall at the bottom which has disappeared if compared with original pictures of the castle.'
Ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croome_Court
Taken using a Canon EOS 60D and M42 screw fit Auto Mamiya/Sekor 1:2 50mm (with no hood!!) www.flickr.com/photos/mrmorodo/8034475505
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A clump of Freesias growing between gaps in a dry-stack small retaining wall.
The sun hit the flowers, but the wall itself was lost in shadow.
Year with My Camera: Make 30 Photos - 13. Eyecatching
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A friend suggested that I put the Double Bass colour as the other photo was all black and white. I tried it and I don't think its that bad. I think it comes down to what floats your boat and what sort of art you like to look at which is why i've put both up.
The last regular workings for step-entrance RNV trams in Mannheim appear to be on long interurban route 5, certainly in the morning peak Monday to Friday. Unfortunately the car leading this two-car set is in a truly frightful all over advertising livery. Just as well it doesn't get seen much! The location is just leaving Mannheim Hauptbahnhof.
Heading south, Great Barton is the last village before arriving at Bury St. Edmunds, and the village itself is divided by the busy road. I'm sure, once it was a lovely village, but now trucks and cars thunder past, mostly ignoring the speed limits.
As you leave the centre of the village, past the old village school, there is a sign pointing down a leafy lane directing the visitor to the church. I had seen that sign many times and almost tempted to go down to investigate.
You have to travel about a mile down the lane, past an old manor house now a business centre, until you come to Holy Innocents on the right, a wonderful knapped flint church, glistening in the weak autumn sunshine.
First thing I noticed was the white stone used for the structure between flints, created a chequerboard pattern, which was very impressive. But when I mentioned this to the warden who was inside, she said she had never noticed, but after leaving came back to tell me she could see the pattern now.
Most eyecatching for me were the multitude of payer-kneelers on the shelves of the pews, creating a colourful display, contrasting with the austere structure of the church. Light streamed through the vibrant Victorian windows, which to my eye are of a very good standard indeed.
Holy Innocents seems to be open every day.
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It had been so long since I last visited Great Barton that I really did not remember the village at all. It is a large place, a bit of Bury St Edmunds broken off really, only the railway line separating it from the Moreton Hall Estate. The church sits a good half mile from the village, down a narrow dusty lane. A large hare sat on the road in front of me as I left the village, and loped along just ahead in no particular hurry until we reached the church gates, where he turned and looked at me, and then preceded me into the graveyard. It was hard not to imagine that he was an omen of some kind.
Holy Innocents is one of those spectacular 15th Century rebuilds that East Anglia did so well, and is all the more so for being so remote. Mortlock calls it 'handsome', which is about right. The big tower rides high above the clerestory and aisles, the long, earlier chancel extending beyond. It has much in common with Rougham, just across the A14. Windows to aisle and clerestory create something of the wall of glass effect so beloved of the later Middle Ages. Unusually, there is a tomb recess in the outside of the south wall of the chancel which was possibly for the donor of the chancel.
The 15th Century south porch carries a later sun dial with the inscription periunt et imputantor, which means something like 'they perish and are judged'.
You step inside to a big church. Despite the windows of the south aisle being filled with coloured glass, the church is full of airy light and space. This is accentuated by the hugeness of the chancel arch, which goes with the 13th Century chancel - that is to say, nave and aisles were built to scale with it as a starting point. In such a great space the furnishings do not intrude, and they are pretty much all the work of the 19th Century restoration here. They are a good counterpoint to the spectacular glass of the south aisle. The first window is by the William Morris workshop, with the figures by Edward Burne-Jones of Faith Hope and Charity. All three are shown, unusually, as men. Faith is the Roman centurion at the foot of the cross, Hope is Joshua and Charity is the Good Samaritan.
Beside it is a window which is somewhat bizarre. A number of Suffolk churches have windows to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887, but none, I think, are quite like this one. The stately queen sits with a look of indigestion upon her face among angels carrying her crown and the Bible. She is flanked by two rather unlikely fellow monarchs, the Queen of Sheba with a snake of temptation and her motto Wisdom is better than rubies and a positively louche Queen Esther with If I perish, I perish. Above Victoria's head in a scroll is inscribed In her tongue is the Law of Kindness from the Book of Proverbs. All in all, a remarkable piece.
Ther other window in the aisle depicts the Ascension flanked by the Nativity and the Resurrection. The Nativity scene is particularly good. It is unsigned, but I wondered if it was by AK Nicholson.
But for the oddest window of all, you have to step up into the chancel. Here, on the south side, is another depiction of the Resurrection and the Ascension. These appear in the upper part, and in the lower part are the Disciples watching the Ascension and the Roman soldiers asleep at the Resurrection. However, these lower parts have been put under the wrong upper parts, and the sleeping soldiers are missing the Ascension and the Disciples are watching the Resurrection! Such a blunder can only have happened in the studio, when the cartoons were being laid out before the glass was made.
Holy Innocents is an interesting dedication, and an unusual one for an Anglican church, especially a medieval one. Bear in mind that, in the Middle Ages, churches were dedicated to feast days, especially of Saints, and not the Saints themselves. Holy Innocents is celebrated on December 28th, and remembers Herod's massacre of the babies of Bethlehem. It would have been a more common dedication in medieval times. Here, it is probably a relic of Anglo-catholic days, and the 19th century revival of church dedications; but it may also be the original dedication of the church. It is quite clear that this church enjoys a High Church character this day, and is one of the few village churches in the Bury area where you can light a candle when you say a prayer.
Like all good High Church parishes, Great Barton keeps Holy Innocents open every day, and there is even a Fair Trade shop where you can make your purchases and perform a work of mercy at the same time, a fine opportunity.
Back outside, the churchyard is one of the best in Suffolk to potter about in. It is vast, with a good 300 years-worth of headstones. While exploring, you might notice that the very north-east corner of the churchyard is cordoned off by a low brick wall, and contains but a small number of graves. They are to the Bunbury family, who are also remembered with mural monuments in the chancel of the church. The Bunburys had lived at Barton Hall, but it was destroyed by fire in 1914. Sir Henry Bunbury achieved a place in popular history in the early 19th century when he was the foreign office official who had the job of breaking the news to Napoleon that he was to be exiled to St Helena. The school history books that speak of the defeat of Napoleon have long since been consigned to the skips. Now, all that remains is the light summer breeze in the corner of a Suffolk churchyard.
Simon Knott, May 2013
www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/gbarton.htm
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The Church is dedicated to the Holy Innocents. These were the Jewish boys under the age of two who were massacred by King Herod. This was after the visit from the wise men in search of the king of the Jews. These children are probably the first martyrs to suffer for our Lord. All Christian churches are built to oppose this injustice. Holy Innocents Great Barton is one of only five churches in the country dedicated to the Holy Innocents. It is most unusual for a mediaeval church.
Wool was a very important industry in East Anglia. Woolpit and Lavenham are local churches built from the proceeds of the trade. Gt. Barton was on the edge of the wool producing area. 'Dog Pews' were put in the Church in honour of the dogs who helped the shepherds during the years when wool was a very important product of the county. The shepherd's dogs were very important to them, and far too valuable to leave outside while the shepherds were in church. The Dog Pews were situated in the back of the church, and the shepherds were encouraged to bring their dogs in with them. The shepherds were also allowed to sleep (with their dogs) in the porch. These pews can now be found at the front of the church and are one of the many items around Holy Innocents that tell a fascinating story of the church's history.
Great Barton is believed to have been a settlement of the Iceni tribe before the Roman occupation of England. It is believed that Barton mere was occupied by early lake-dwellers. Records mention the parish in the time of Edward the Confessor, however it was not until about 950 AD that the parish was given into the care of the abbey of Bury St Edmunds. The abbey held it until the monastery was dissolved in 1539. It is almost certain that a Saxon Church existed here- it is probable that this was a simple wooden building rebuilt in stone by the Normans. In 1086, the Domesday Book states that the church possessed 50 acres of land, valued at £20. The chancel was erected and the font was installed in the late 13th century. These are the earliest parts of the present church. Over the centuries, various additions were made to the church when funds became available. It was the job of the Rector to maintain the chancel, whereas other parts were maintained by the parishioners. In the 15th century they erected the aisles, clerestory and tower. Much money was left to the church for restoration in the 15th century, including from the Rector of that time, William Howerdly. The following two centuries saw the destruction of many parts of the church due to the Reformation and Puritan purge. At this time the majority of the angels in the roof were destroyed. Their remains can still be seen today. Little work was done on the church until the Victorian era when major restoration work began.
The list of incumbents goes back to 1320 when the parish was in the diocese of Norwich. In 1823 it was in the Diocese of Ely, and in 1914 it became a member of the newly formed Diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich.
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Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau - Barcelona, (Spain).
Wiki Loves Monuments Code: RI-51-0004278
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Baroque facade of the church of Santa Marta (1733) in Ciutat Vella, destroyed in 1909 to make way to the Via Laietana and “transplanted” in 1928 to the kitchens pavilion of the Hospital of Sant Pau.
Fachada barroca de la iglesia de Santa Marta (1733) en Ciutat Vella, destruida en 1909 para abrir paso a la Via Laietana y "trasplantada" en 1928 al pavellón de cocina del Hospital de Sant Pau.
ENGLISH
The present Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (Catalan for Hospital of the Holy Cross and Saint Paul) in the Guinardó, Barcelona, Catalonia, is a complex built between 1901 and 1930, designed by the Catalan Modernisme architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner. Together with Palau de la Música Catalana, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Today it is still a fully functional hospital. There have been discussions to convert this building to a museum sometime in the future.
Although the hospital's current buildings date from the 20th century, the Hospital de Sant Pau was founded in 1401 when six small medieval hospitals merged. The hospital's former buildings near the center of Barcelona date from the 15th century, and now house an art school (Escola Massana) and Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia).
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_de_Sant_Pau
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CASTELLANO
El Hospital de Sant Pau (Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau - Hospital de la Santa Cruz y San Pablo) está hoy situado en un conjunto de edificios situados en Barcelona (España), proyectados por el arquitecto Lluís Domènech i Montaner, uno de los principales representantes del modernismo catalán. Con su edificio principal y sus numerosos pabellones, el Hospital de Sant Pau es, junto con el Institut Pere Mata de Reus también del mismo arquitecto, uno de los conjuntos más grandes de la arquitectura modernista catalana.
El Hospital se fundó en 1401, por la fusión ("reducción") de seis hospitales que por aquel entonces existían en Barcelona y que a raíz de la peste de 1348 y la crisis demográfica posterior entraron en una profunda crisis económica. El nombre de la nueva institución fue Hospital de la Santa Creu (Hospital de la Santa Cruz). La MIA (Muy Ilustre Administración) se componía de dos canónigos de la Catedral de Barcelona y dos miembros del Consejo de Ciento (órgano de gobierno de la ciudad de Barcelona). La gestión estaba a cargo de un Prior, que siempre era un sacerdote (en Valencia se llamaba clavario y en Zaragoza Mayordomo). Hasta 1904, fue la principal institución asistencial del principado de Cataluña y, con los hospitales de Gracia de Zaragoza y General de Valencia, las tres piezas clave del dispositivo de acción social de la Corona de Aragón. Situado en el Raval de Barcelona (actualmente el edificio es la sede de la Biblioteca de Catalunya) el crecimiento urbanístico de la ciudad durante el siglo XVIII le rodeó. Si hasta 1714 la hegemonía en la MIA la tuvo el brazo civil, durante el periodo borbónico, hubo una evidente desafección de los concejales en favor de un poder creciente del brazo religioso de la Junta que condujo a percibir lo que era un hospital civil como un hospital religioso. Este hecho motivó que el papel de los médicos fuese subalterno. Los cambios en la formación médica durante el XIX movieron a muchos médicos a efectuar críticas muy acerbas relativas al funcionamiento del Hospital, y a la subordinación del mismo a los intereses religiosos. Por eso, inspecciones municipales como la de 1847 y numerosos escritos en la prensa cuestionan la política asistencial de la institución, y por eso los médicos lucharon porque la facultad de medicina y el hospital universitario se trasladasen a otra institución (el Clínico).
Desde principios del siglo XIX menudean las quejas sobre la vetustez del edificio y la imposibilidad de garantizar su ampliación en un contexto de creciente urbanización y demanda asistencial, así como críticas acerbas ante el modelo de gestión de la institución, defendida por la MIA como de beneficencia particular, de tal manera que Barcelona no dispuso de un hospital de gestión pública hasta la aparición del Clínico. La aplicación de la Ley de Beneficencia de 1849 y del Reglamento de 1852, y sobre todo la desamortización de buena parte de su patrimonio rústico y urbano mediante las leyes de Madoz, pusieron en cuestión la autonomía del Hospital de los poderes públicos y la necesidad de adaptarse a la legislación. Con el objeto de mantener su independencia, la Administración instó su conversión en hospital de beneficencia privada, estatuto que mantuvo hasta los acuerdos entre la MIA y la Generalidad Provisional en 1978 y que supusieron la entrada en la Administración de la Generalidad de Cataluña y el nombramiento por esta del Presidente. Desde entonces, el hospital actúa como proveedor de servicios del Instituto Catalán de la Salud en el marco de la Red Hospitalaria de Utilidad Pública.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_de_la_Santa_Creu_i_Sant_Pau
The lip of Dendrobium spectabile is a remarkable plant structure that looks as if it was carved from wax. It is curled, twisted, wavy and has a purple reticulation over a white background. All in all a very out of the ordinary flower. Undoubtedly there is some insect in the island of New Guinea that finds this amazing flower irresistible. Orchid growers are also attracted by this mysterious plant, unfortunately it is challenging to grow well and getting it to bloom reliably has been the bane of most orchid connoisseurs that have tried the species. Perhaps out of sheer luck my plant both grows well, albeit slowly, and blooms reliably every year.
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This old vintage Farmall tractor is a eyecatching Halloween display. It at an entrance to a pumpkin farm.
North Plains, in NW Oregon.
Главный ботанический сад РАН им. Н.В. Цицина в Москве... В тот день, уже почти на исходе зимы, было очень холодно. Оказавшись на одной из заснеженных аллей, я вдруг понял, что деревья по её краям, отчасти из-за лежащего на них снега, образовали над ней естественный купол - если угодно, галерею, по которой, нога в ногу, и прошли впереди меня эти двое... "Двое из ларца".
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My husband and I were both impressed with how good this old Ford pickup looked. I'd guess a model from the early 80's but I'm certainly no expert. That red and black paint job was eyecatching.
Cozumel, Mexico in April 2023
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