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Legend has it that this church was built by Otho the Great, to whom the Virgin appeared and told him to build build her a church in, what wasthen, a three-cornered meadow scattered with scarlet lilies. A document of 999 says that refugees from the mainland founded this church in the 7th century and dedicated it to the Virgin. The church was rededicated when the body of Saint Donatus, the patron saint of Murano, was brought here from Cephalonia in 1125 by Doge Domenico Michiel, along with the bones of a dragon the saint had slain. This date also seems to be when the church was built in its current form, with the work completed in 1141, a date which is recorded on the mosaic floor. Some of the remains of San Gerardo Sagredo were translated here in 1333 and the urn is taken to San Giorgio Maggiore every hundredth anniversary of his departure to spend a night there.
Базилика Санта Мария и Сан Донато известна своим византийским мозаичным полом 12-го века. Похожий пол можно увидеть в Базилике на площади Сан Марко в Венеции. Кроме того стоит обратить внимание на мозаичный купол с изображением Девы Марии в апсиде. По легенде, здесь находились кости дракона, убитого Св. Донатусом.
Client Work - Jaheem Slain (GEO)
Hello Everyone! I hope you are all enjoying the start to your week :) Today I will be sharing another set of photos of a full sim that The Design Firm has been commissioned to build out, landscape & design a portion of the interiors, by our client Jaheem.
This set of photos focuses primarily on the two FELGO “Ascaya Residence” builds on the sim & surrounding areas. Our client requested that the house be used twice, each having an identical landscape & layout. Normally I am not a fan of having multiple of the same builds on a residential sim, let alone each having a near identical landscape & layout. However, as the two Felgo homes are at the very beginning of the street, directly across from one another, it created a symmetrical look that I ended up falling in love with. Pairing that with the minimal & modern landscape of each home, water features throughout, as well as the roughness of the surrounding cliffs & sandy beach, you get the perfectly appointed modern estate (X2!)
As always, thank you for continuously following & supporting the work of myself & my colleagues at The Design Firm. It means the world to us!
Lastly, I always recommend viewing my photos in full screen mode when able! This allows you to see the true depth and detail of the spaces that my colleagues and I create for our clients.
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Photo Credit - Static Frenzy
SLAINS CASTLE - (Old) Slains castle from the cliff top walk between Colliestons & Winnyfold, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Slains Castle, also known as New Slains Castle to distinguish it from nearby Old Slains Castle, is a ruined castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It overlooks the North Sea from its cliff-top site 1 kilometre east of Cruden Bay. The core of the castle is a 16th-century tower house, built by the 9th Earl of Erroll. Significant reconstruction of the castle has been carried out a number of times, lastly in 1837 when it was rebuilt as a Scots Baronial mansion. At one time it had three extensive gardens, but is now a roofless ruin. Plans to restore the castle have been on hold since 2009.
In 1895 the author Bram Stoker visited the area, staying at a cottage near Cruden Bay, and he may have been a guest at Slains. The castle is commonly cited as an inspiration for Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.
Weather reports predict the so called "Beast From The East" is due to revisit the UK over the next few days, today the 16th of March 2018 I visited Collieston Bay, its the first time I have witnessed the impact unusual weather has had on the area, it really was exhilarating and offered great photo opportunities.
Collieston is a small former fishing village on the North Sea coast in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The village lies just north of the Sands of Forvie Special Protection Area, between Cruden Bay and Newburgh.
The earliest recorded history of Collieston is of the arrival of St Ternan, a Columban monk on a mission to convert the local picts to Christianity. There is, however, evidence that people lived here during much earlier times.
Collieston was established as a fishing village by the 16th century, and it provides the first safe harbour in over fifteen miles of beachesand dunes stretching north from Aberdeen.
Fishing for herring, haddock, whiting and codflourished in the 17th century and 18th century and was the foundation of Collieston's economy. The village became known for 'Collieston Speldings', salted and sun-dried haddock and whiting, a popular delicacy throughout Britain. As drift netting developed during the mid 19th century, the fishing began to decline and the focus of the industry shifted to places like Peterhead because the harbour at Collieston was too small to safely accommodate the larger boats needed.
The numerous sea caves in the nearby cliffs, and small coves with shingle beaches provided ideal terrain for smugglers. In the late 18th century it was estimated by the Excise that up to 8000 gallons of foreign spirits were being illegally landed in the area every month. In 1798, the notorious village smuggler, Phillip Kennedy, was killed by a blow from an exciseman's cutlass. His grave and tombstone still stands in the village graveyard.
A ship from the Spanish Armada, the Santa Caterina, carrying arms for the Earl of Erroll is said to have sunk just off the rocky point of St Catherine's Dub in 1594. In retaliation for the Earl's involvement in the Catholic plot against him, James VI blew up the Earl's castle which stood on the cliffs, a mile north of Collieston. The Earl went on to rebuild Slains Castle, six miles further up the coast, in 1597.
Collieston is now mainly a commuter village serving Aberdeen, and is largely given over to tourists during the summer months.
Ruined Slains Castle, in North-East Scotland. It is said to have inspired Bram Stoker to write Dracula (Stoker stayed here, when the building was intact, in 1895).
The Black Bird returns successfully to the one who waits atop the castle and to the spirit that guided them. The Black Bird returns with the White Robed figure. From a grave in Whitby on the English coast to a castle in Scotland isolated on the cliffs just North of Cruden Bay a story line threads through the locations back to Gaia. Both Whitby and Cruden Bay were popularised by rail links and adverts for seaside excursions that were just a train ride away upon new adventures made possible by the modernisation of advancement in all directions. One ticket buyer to the fashionable healthy retreats of the coast was Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker who in his novel Dracula had the eponymous Vampire reach land in Britain after disposing of the crew of the Demeter along the voyage from Varna as sustenance and as potential threats. Just a few years before his stay in Whitby there had been a Russian ship the Dmitry run ashore and details of this incident echo in the arrival of Dracula on the Demeter named in memory of the Dmitry and after the Olympian goddess the second child of the Titans Rhea and Cronus who takes her place as sister to Hestia, Hera, Hades, Poseidon and Zeus with all of their status, strength and power. Demeter was the goddess of the harvest and of agriculture she presided over soil, seed and grains her benevolence was seen in the fertility of the Earth and she is seen as a Mother Goddess of fruitful fertility and so a Mother Goddess of Earth even though she is a daughter of Rhea who is a daughter of Gaia the primordial deity of Earth.
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This is the famous Octagonal Room at the ruined New Slains Castle near Cruden Bay. We've been staying here over New Year and I've taken the opportunity to visit this fantastic derelict castle- reputedly the most haunted in Scotland- on several nights. There is a definite 'vibe' about the castle and this comes from someone who spends a lot of time hanging around derelict, creepy places at night, alone. Its isolated, clifftop location on an otherwise empty headland means that the wind frequently soughs through its bare walls and gaping windows. Now and then a more vigorous wave smashes unexpectedly in a deep cleft with a loud slap and the sound is startling. Seagulls cry plaintively and the ominous rumble of boulders rolling and dragging on the bottom all create an atmosphere. At night the shadows seem to hide all the ghost and vampires stories you've ever heard... While I was there, alone, I did hear on several occasions unexplained noises including an odd clicking noise which I suspected (hoped!) was bats. But inexplicably when I was down in the creepy, unsettling wine cellar
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2 of the 30sec exposure shots decided to curtail themselves prematurely after 8 seconds and 6 seconds respectively which was puzzling. I checked the settings each time and the camera was set for 30secs.
Me mucking about with torches, orbs, smoke-bombs and LED fairylights won't have helped if anyone was in the vicinity!
This photo was in the Octagonal Room which is believed to have inspired Bram Stoker and appears in six of his novels including, famously 'Dracula'.
Inspiration for Count Dracula's Castle while Bram Stoker stayed in area back in 1895.
On a day like this not going to argue with that, especially if it gets dark and yes it's haunted I believe, did not hang about to find out.
New Slains Castle, Aberdeenshire at sunset.
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From The North East Corner New Slains Castle offers a view of a glorious past that is full of excellent potential. The imagination that built Castle Dracula had opportunity here to imagine the Vampire Count on these shores long before he arrives in Whitby aboard The Demeter.
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In der Nähe von Cruden Bay liegt direkt an der Küste Slains Castle. Heute ist es nur noch eine Ruine, die langsam verfällt, doch vor gut hundert Jahren inspirierte sie - damals noch intakt und bewohnt - Bram Stoker zu seinem Dracula-Roman. Auch heute noch ist die Ruine allemal einen Besuch wert und lädt ein zum Durchstreifen der alten Gemäuer...
This is Slains castle in Scotland, and it is said that this was the castle that inspired Stoker when he was writing Dracula.
I think I may have even come into contact with Dracula himself!
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This memorial tablet is situated in the graveyard of Slains Parish Church in Collieston, Aberdeenshire. This is what it says “To the glory of God and to perpetuate the memory of the men of the parish of Slains who fell in the Great War, 1914 – 1919. To the memory of those who gave their lives in the service of their country, 1939 – 1945”.
“Greater love hath no man than that he lay down his life for his friends.”
New Slains Castle, Aberdeenshire near sunset.
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New Slains Castle, Aberdeenshire near sunset.
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Leanach Cottage, Culloden.
On 16 April 1746, the final Jacobite Rising came to a brutal head. Jacobite supporters, seeking to restore the Stuart monarchy to the British thrones, gathered to fight the Duke of Cumberland's government troops. It was the last pitched battle on British soil and, in less than an hour, around 1,500 men were slain – more than 1,000 of them Jacobites.
The Gulfgate Bridge contecting Port Arthur Texas with Louisiana via Highway 82 over the Intracoastal Waterway. Originally named Gulfgate, the bridge opened in 1970. In 1984 it was renamed Martin Luther King Jr Bridge to honour the slain civil rights leader.
Arch at Slains Castle.
Slains Castle also known as New Slains Castle to distinguish it from the nearby Old Slains Castle, is a ruined castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It overlooks the North Sea from its cliff-top site 1 kilometre east of Cruden Bay. The core of the castle is a 16th-century tower house, built by the 9th Earl of Erroll.
Significant reconstruction of the castle has been carried out a number of times, lastly in 1837 when it was rebuilt as a Scots Baronial mansion. At one time it had three extensive gardens but is now a roofless ruin. Plans to restore the castle have been on hold since 2009. It is a Historic Environment Scotland Category B listed building. The castle is linked with the novels of Bram Stoker, including Dracula. [Wikipedia]
Slains Castle, also known as New Slains Castle to distinguish it from nearby Old Slains Castle, is a ruined castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It overlooks the North Sea from its cliff-top site 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) east of Cruden Bay. The core of the castle is a 16th-century tower house, built by the 9th Earl of Erroll. Significant reconstruction of the castle has been carried out a number of times, lastly in 1837 when it was rebuilt as a Scots Baronial mansion. At one time it had three extensive gardens, but is now a roofless ruin. Plans to restore the castle have been on hold since 2009