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The display in this shop was so eyecatching I had to go in and stare for some time - incredible shoes - colourful and weird & wonderful designs
Riaño, León (Spain).
Better seen in Fluidr.
Se ve mejor en Fluidr.
This hórreo also was going to be submerged into the waters of the reservoir and was transferred piece by piece to the new town of Riaño.
Este hórreo también iba a quedar sumergido en las aguas del embalse y fue trasladado pieza a pieza al nuevo pueblo de Riaño.
ENGLISH
Riaño (Riañu, in Leonese language), is a town located in the province of León in the autonomous community of Castile and León, northern Spain. In the 1980s the town was covered by water during the construction of a dam and reservoir, and a new town was built on the reservoir's bank.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ria%c3%b1o,_Spain
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CASTELLANO
Riaño es un municipio de la provincia de León, comunidad autónoma de Castilla y León (España) situado al noreste de la misma, a los pies de la Cordillera Cantábrica cerca de los Picos de Europa, a 1.148 m de altitud. Se encuentra a 91 km de la capital provincial y cuenta con una población de 536 habitantes (INE 2008), conocidos por el gentilicio de riañeses, con una extensión de 97,63 km². También forman parte del municipio los pueblos de Horcadas y Carande.
La historia reciente de Riaño está marcada por la traumática construcción del embalse que anegó el pueblo original, el antiguo Riaño o Viejo Riaño en 1987. Junto con él, siete pueblos más del valle fueron también cubiertos por las aguas.
Tras varios intentos de construir un embalse a lo largo del siglo XX, finalmente el valle de Riaño, en el que confluyen los ríos Esla, Yuso y Retuerto, fue sepultado por las aguas en 1987, bajo el gobierno de Felipe González siendo ministro responsable Javier Sáenz de Cosculluela.
El proyecto de construcción del pantano dio lugar a numerosas movilizaciones populares, enfrentamientos con las fuerzas del orden e incluso suicidios, siendo finalmente necesario para la demolición de las casas el desalojo por la fuerza de los vecinos que se negaban a abandonarlas atrincherándose en los tejados de las mismas. El nuevo Riaño fue posteriormente reedificado en el paraje de Valcayo. Las compensaciones tan anunciadas entonces en forma de nuevas tierras de regadíos en la provincia de León a cuenta del agua del pantano no han sido hasta el momento cumplidas.
A Pobra do Caramiñal, A Coruña (Spain).
ENGLISH
A Pobra do Caramiñal is located in the entrance of one of the lower bays of the Galician coastline known as the "Ria de Arousa" in the Province of A Coruña. It is the next stop out of the ria (bay or more apropos 'fjord') after Boiro and is famous for its unusual festival procession in September.
The size of A Pobra do Caramiñal’s harbor and the number and scale of fishing vessels in it. Most tourist guides to this area will illuminate you about the fishing heritage of "Ribeira", just a few kilometers away, but A Pobra do Caramiñal is only mentioned in passing. That is a serious injustice since the main commercial port of Ribeira is closed to the public, whilst its smaller equivalent is there for all to see at A Pobra.
The fishing boats on display ranged from those which were only dinghy sized (called dornas), and left on the main ramp, to industrial sized fishing boats moored up at a key that extended in to the bay. There was plenty of activity and all the evidence pointed towards A Pobra’s fishing economy being prosperous and its bay being one of deep water.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pobra_do_Carami%c3%b1al
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CASTELLANO
La Puebla de Caramiñal (en gallego y oficialmente desde 1982 A Pobra do Caramiñal) es un municipio situado al SO de la provincia de La Coruña (Galicia, España), en la comarca del Barbanza. Limita con el ayuntamiento de Boiro al norte, Ribeira al sur y Puerto del Son al oeste. Se encuentra en el margen noroeste de la Ría de Arosa.
La Puebla del Caramiñal surge, hacia 1822, como la unión de dos cascos urbanos: la Villa del Caramiñal (perteneciente al Señorío del marqués de Parga) y la Puebla del Deán (perteneciente al Señorío del Deán de Santiago). De esta unión se conserva en el actual casco urbano sus dos iglesias parroquiales: Sta. María la Antigua del Caramiñal y Santiago del Deán. Destacar una época de prosperidad económica que comienza aproximadamente en el siglo XIX, fruto de las fábricas de salazón, y se prolonga hasta los años 20 del siglo pasado, cuando desaparecen la mayor parte de ellas debido al agotamiento de la sardina. Actualmente quedan 2 importantes conserveras en La Puebla.
Located on the Niagara River, which drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, the combined falls form the highest flow rate of any waterfall in the world, with a vertical drop of more than 165 feet (50 m).
The somewhat scruffy Se-un Electronics market is no slouch when it comes to cables, connectors, adaptors, and of course displays. Get wired! ;-)
A brilliant Gazania flower :O).
"Treasure Flower, or Gazania, is a great drought tolerant annual flower. It typically grows 6 to 12 inches tall and thrives in the heat of the summer. Not to say it needs no water, but it is more understanding if you forget on occasion. Blooms all summer."
Bere Regis is a quiet Dorset village, partly encircled (and therefore bypassed) by the busy A35 Dorchester-Poole road. In the south-east corner of the village, just off the main street and edged by a small and well-maintained housing estate, is the Church of St John the Baptist. The church’s external walls are built of brick and flint, laid out in an eyecatching striped and chequerboard pattern.
The first church on this site was in the mid-eleventh century, a cross-shaped building that subsquently disappeared with the additions and alterations of later centuries. There still are a few tantilising traces of this original church, though: some Saxon long-and-short-work (alternate horizontal and vertical stones) in the east wall of the nave; a corbel that would have supported the original nave roof; and two voussoirs (wedge-shaped stones used in arch-building).
The next major building work was around a hundred years later, with the addition of the south aisle; and around fifty years after that (towards the end of the twelfth century) a north aisle was added. The three-bay arcade created to accomodate the south aisle has some interesting carvings on the column capitals, including a depiction of the medieval sport of bear-baiting, a man holding his mouth wide open (obviously suffering from toothache), and another with his hand on his forehead as if in surprise (but in fact enduring a headache).
In the thirteenth century the Turbeville family became lords of the manor, and would remain so until the early eighteenth century when the family line became extinct. If the family name has faint literary echoes, all becomes clearer when one imagines Bere Regis as the Kingsbere of Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels, and the Turbevilles as the D’Urbevilles, the once-great family whose fate is intextricably linked with that of the tragic herione Tess in his novel Tess of the D’Urbevilles. Hardy depicts the real-life Turbeville tombs (in the south aisle) in the novel when Tess visits Kingsbere Church and realises the tombs’ symbolic significance:
“They were canopied, altar-shaped, and plain; their carvings being defaced and broken; their brasses torn from the matrices, the rivet-holes remaining like martin-holes in a sandcliff. Of all the reminders that she [Tess] had ever received that her people were socially extinct, there was none so forcible as this spoliation.”
Further building work in the fourteenth century — the widening of the south aisle and extension of the south arcade — was probably paid for by the Turbeville family. But it was another local dignitary who funded the church’s crowning glory: the nave roof. John Morton was born in nearby Milborne Stileham circa 1420, and under Henry VII occupied some of the great offices of state, including Lord Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury. His visually stunning and elaborate church roof was installed around 1486. There is some evidence that the previous roof had been destroyed in a fire. Whatever the reasons for its creation, the roof is a masterpiece. Made entirely of oak, it is a symphony of intricate carving, painting and gilding. Projecting from the hammer beams are twelve lifesize figures, the wall-plates are decorated with carved and painted heads, and the roof bosses depict coats of arms and other heraldic devices.
Though some authorities argue that the full-length figures depict saints in monastic attire, the consensus is that they are in fact the Apostles. The churchwarden accounts for 1738 lists a payment to “Benjamin Moores for cleaning and oiling the Apostles — 4s 0d”, and several of the figures can be recognised by their apostolic symbols: St Peter, wearing a mitre, and carrying keys and model church; St John, with book; St Philip, carrying his pilgrim staff; and Judas, with his money bag.
Whether with the naked eye or through binoculars (or even laid down and viewed directly from below, for the more agile), take plenty of time to marvel at the skills of those unknown medieval craftsmen.
Sant Jaume de Montagut - Querol, Tarragona (Spain).
... y el reconocedor automático de marcas de coches (y quién sabe si futura estrella del automovilismo o de la automoción, o de las letras en verso). Si no los veis, están dentro del Laguna, porque había un grajo que volaba muy bajo.
Just a quick break and I'll be back to more pics from Niagara Falls.....I took this shot last night in my yard....so many lovely blooms this time of year....this one is def pretty in pink and the coloring of the petals gives a sense of movement :-)
Belchite, Zaragoza (Spain).
Better seen in Fluidr.
Se ve mejor en Fluidr.
ENGLISH
Belchite is a village in Zaragoza province, Spain, about 40 km southeast of Zaragoza. It has a population of about 1,647 (2007).
On June 15, 1809, French and Spanish forces in the Peninsular War fought the Battle of María near Belchite.
Between August 24 and September 7, 1937, Republican and Nationalist forces in the Spanish Civil War fought the Battle of Belchite in and around the town. After 1939 a new village of Belchite was built adjacent to the ruins of the old, which remain a ghost town as a memorial to the war.
The remains of the old village have been used as filming locations in films including Terry Gilliam's 1988 film The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belchite
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CASTELLANO
Belchite es un municipio de la provincia de Zaragoza, (España), situado a 49 km de la capital. Tiene una población de 1.692 habitantes y 273,58 km². Es conocido por haber sido escenario de una de las batallas simbólicas de la Guerra civil española, la Batalla de Belchite.
Como consecuencia de la batalla el pueblo quedó completamente arrasado, si bien hasta entonces llegó a ser una villa de cierta importancia, albergando hasta dos monasterios y varias iglesias. Franco decidió reconstruirlo justo al lado, dejando las ruinas del pueblo viejo de Belchite intactas como recuerdo de la contienda. Los encargados de la construcción del nuevo pueblo fueron principalmente prisioneros republicanos, para los cuales se habilitó un campo de concentración en las cercanías, cuyos restos aún se conservan, y que permaneció abierto desde 1940 hasta 1945, llegando a albergar a 1.000 prisioneros a cargo de la Dirección General de Regiones Devastadas. Los últimos habitantes del Belchite viejo abandonaron sus ruinas en 1964 para reasentarse en el Belchite Nuevo. Las ruinas, sin acondicionar para el turismo, son visitadas por más de 10.000 personas al año. Es también lugar ocasional reunión para nostálgicos del régimen de Franco, especialmente falangistas.
De Belchite desciende el cantautor catalán Joan Manuel Serrat, ya que su madre nació en esta localidad.
En la villa, dada su peculiaridad arquitectónica e histórica y el escenario que suponen sus ruinas, se han rodado numerosas películas.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belchite