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Na Cidade Monumental de Cáceres (Património Mundial da UNESCO), a Casa de Lorenzo Ulloa integra o tecido urbano tardo‑medieval e renascentista (séculos XV–XVI), onde residências senhoriais funcionavam como marca de estatuto e de controlo social. A fachada principal, em cantaria bem aparelhada, organiza-se em torno de um portal de arco de volta perfeita com aduelas radiais, solução estrutural que distribui as cargas para as ombreiras. A porta em madeira pregueada e ferragens visíveis remete para práticas de segurança e durabilidade típicas do período. Sobre o eixo do acesso, a janela nobre com molduração saliente identifica o piso principal, associado a salas de recepção. Os escudos heráldicos talhados na pedra documentam linhagens e alianças familiares, funcionando como “assinatura” pública do imóvel. A calçada de seixos e os gradeamentos em ferro reforçam a continuidade de técnicas construtivas locais.
In the Historic City of Cáceres (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), the House of Lorenzo Ulloa is part of the late-medieval and Renaissance urban fabric (15th–16th centuries), where stately residences served as symbols of status and social control. The main façade, constructed of well-cut stone, is organized around a round-arched portal with radial ribs, a structural solution that distributes the load to the jambs. The door, made of mortised wood with visible hardware, reflects security and durability practices typical of the period. Above the entrance axis, the prominent window with projecting moldings identifies the main floor, associated with reception rooms. The heraldic coats of arms carved into the stone document family lineages and alliances, serving as the building’s public “signature.” The cobblestone pavement and iron railings reinforce the continuity of local construction techniques.
Elora is a community in the township of Centre Wellington, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. It is well known for its 19th-century limestone architecture and the geographically significant Elora Gorge.
Elora is no longer an independent entity. In 1999, the Township of Centre Wellington was formed by amalgamating the Town of Fergus; the Village of Elora; and the Townships of Nichol, Pilkington, West Garafraxa, and part of Eramosa.[2] In 2011, the community referred to as Elora had a population of approximately 7,756.[1]
History
Roman Catholic missionaries first visited the area in the early to mid 1600s, attempting to Christianize the indigenous people, particularly the Neutral Nation on the Attiwandaronk Lands. The first European settlers arrived in 1817, and Roswell Matthews built a home here the next year.[3][4]
Captain William Gilkison (1777–1833) was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, and emigrated to North America in 1796. He served with the British forces in the War of 1812 as an assistant quartermaster-general, and in 1832 purchased some 14,000 acres of land in Nichol Township. He selected this area near the falls of the Grand River as a town site for his proposed settlement and named it Elora. It was laid out by Lewis Burwell, deputy provincial land surveyor, late in 1832, and the following year Gilkison established a sawmill and a general store. The founder of Elora died in April, 1833, before the full results of his foresight and enterprise were achieved.
Voluntary regiment in May 1862 in Elora, Ontario. The army consisted of 30,000 men in 1870, intended to defend Canada against a possible attack from the United States
A street in Elora after an ice storm; early 1900s.
Taken from Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elora,_Ontario
Elora was founded in 1832 by Captain William Gilkison, originally from Scotland, who was a British officer recently returned from India. He had also served in the War of 1812, fighting the nascent United States. He bought 14,000 acres of land on the Grand River and settled on the east side of the river. The plan for the settlement was laid out by Lewis Burwell, in late 1832, when it was called Irvine Settlement. By 1833, Gilkison had opened a sawmill and a general store.[5] Gilkison named the community after his brother's ship, which was itself inspired by the Ellora Caves near Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India.
After a brisk walk back to the cars, there was time for a change of location just beyond Dolwyddelan and a much shorter walk to catch the return heading back down the valley to Betws-y-Coed and beyond.
A 158 convoy treads the wonderful Chirk Viaduct during it's noble quest for yet more stations and passengers. Some people will get on, others will get off, and thus is cyclical and prosaic life of a DMU, in extraordinary surroundings.
A view of Al Mashtal Hotel in northern Gaza, highlighting its modern architectural character. The light stone façade, geometric volumes, large glass windows, and repeating balconies create a clean contemporary composition against the blue Mediterranean sky.
The Ardeche area has a number of 'Villages of Character', and they are all a tangle of stone buildings connected by a labyrinth of alleyways, built on a hilltop or up the side of a river gorge.
Naves is one such viillage, and it is built on a hillside above the town of Les Vans.
This picture of the centre of Naves gives a good idea of the character of these villages, and of their steep cobbled 'Streets'.
I had envisaged this shot as ending up as a black & white, but when it came to it I just couldn't lose the splashes of colour of the shutters and the autumn leaves.
As an aside, at the edge of the village we came across an Olive tree that still had some olives on it. I love olives, so couldn't miss the opportunity to try one straight from the tree. If you are ever tempted, take my advice - don't. A fresh olive is the most evil toe-curlingly bitter thing I have ever tasted! How on earth someone worked out that such a foul tasting thing will become delicious when treated with sodium hydroxide and then fermented is beyond me - but I'm glad they worked it out.
The pool on the Lily Terrace in Bodnant Garden, on a partly cloudy afternoon in early May. The reflection of Bodnant Hall can be seen, along with some of the water lilies for which the terrace is named.
Bodnant Garden is an 80-acre National Trust garden located above the Conwy Valley, east of the Afon Conwy / River Conway (near the village of Eglwysbach, also spelled Eglwys-Bach or Eglwys-Fach ["Little Church"]). The name of this garden in Welsh is Gardd Bodnant.
Bodnant was established as a Victorian garden by landowner Henry Davis Pochin (1824-1895), who worked with landscape architect Edward Milner (1819-1894) to design the space, making the most of the rich, partly sheltered woodland-friendly setting. The garden was then further developed by successive members of the McLaren family, whose heads have held the title Baron Aberconway, together with successive members of the Puddle family of head gardeners. The Italianate terraces were developed between 1904 and 1914. Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway (1879-1953) turned the garden over to the National Trust in 1949 -- although the Bodnant estate, both house and garden, remain the property of Lord Aberconway.
(Information from the National Trust website and the official guide to Bodnant; website last consulted 1 March 2020.)
[Bodnant Garden house pool reflection 2012 may 3 p; P1000157]
Historic mid-18th century homestead built by Johannes Klock. It has been restored and is today a museum. St. Johnsville, New York.
This is St Mary's in the village of Roxby in North Lincolnshire on a sunny February afternoon in 2018.
Rain-soaked stone, quiet streets and shared shelter under one umbrella in the heart of Santiago de Compostela. The old town turns into a mirror as two figures cross the archway, disappearing into the light at the end of the street. I framed this in black and white to let the textures, reflections and mood of the city speak for themselves.
Would you rather wander Santiago under the sun or just after the rain?
An arcade of the main cloister of l’Abbaye royale de Fontevraud, or Fontevrault -- Abbaye Notre-Dame -- in the village of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye (in the département of Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire region, in west-central France), on a mostly clear day in mid-October (2016).
Founded in 1101 by Robert d'Arbrissel (1047-1117), the abbey was initially intended for both women and men but became an abbey exclusively for women. As its name suggests, for centuries it was associated with royalty, including abbesses with royal connections and other royal or aristocratic residents. Among the most famous was Aliénor d'Aquitaine, known in English as Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122?-1204), who retired and was buried there. Like many French religious establishments, in 1792 Fontevrault was suppressed by Revolutionaries. Napoleon I then established a grim prison on the site in 1804, which did not close until 1963, when restoration began.
Today, the abbey site, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is open to visitors for daily visits, as well as hosting many cultural events. Of the main convent of Grand-Moûtier, the Romanesque abbey church, the chapter house, the refectory, and these cloisters -- Cloître Ste-Marie -- survive. The south side of the cloisters dates from the early 16th century and is Gothic-inspired; the other sides, including the one in this view, were built in the mid-16th century, in a Renaissance style. The site also features elements including a hotel (in the former Prieuré St-Lazare / St-Lazare Priory); the gatehouse (ca. 1785); a converted 18th-century stables; the former homes of abbots and abbesses; a large medieval kitchen with "pepper pot" towers; three eating places (at least as of 2016); and gardens.
This location was historically in the Saumurois area of Anjou, near its borders with the Touraine to the east and Poitou to the south. Today, it is within the Parc naturel régional Loire-Anjou-Touraine (Loire-Anjou-Touraine Regional Natural Park) as well as the Vallée de la Loire UNESCO World Heritage Site.
(Information from: the DuMont Guide -- Hansmann, Wilfried. Loire Valley, translated [from German] by Russell Stockman (New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1986; DuMont Guide); the Michelin Châteaux of the Loire Green Guide (Watford, Herts., UK: Michelin Travel Partner, 2015 printing); and the French- and English-language Wikipédia / Wikipedia, both last consulted 2 October 2020. Eleanor of Aquitaine’s dates are based on US Library of Congress "authority record" n81007375.)
[Fontevraud l'Abbaye abbey cloister perspective arcade 2016 oct 11 f; DSCF0391]
The residence of Jasper’s first superintendent, a beautiful old stone building dating to 1913, is now used by Parks Canada as the park information center.
This really must be viewed on black ... just click on the photo!
Explored # 57
Old Québec City is such a trip to explore on foot. Reminiscent of times spent walking around historic towns in France.
A limestone cottage, wall, and deep herbaceous border in Barrington Court Gardens (South Somerset, in the West Country -- southwestern England), on a partly showery midday in mid-May 2010.
Barrington Court is currently in the care of the National Trust. It consists of a restored, vacant Tudor manor house (ca. 1538-late 1550s) and its associated buildings, grounds, and gardens. (We only visited the gardens and Strode House, the building with the restaurant and shop.) The National Trust acquired the property in 1907; in fact, Barrington Court was the first country house and garden for which it took on responsibility. Court House itself was restored by the Lyle family -- Colonel Lyle leased it from the Trust in 1920.
The gardens were inspired by Gertrude Jekyll and the Arts and Crafts movement; Colonel Lyle's wife Elsie consulted Gertrude Jekyll on the design of the gardens. (Miss Jekyll was already well on in years when Barrington Court Garden was designed. The Arts and Crafts movement had flourished from the late 19th century into the 20th, and it continues to be influential.) Like many early 20th-century gardens, it was developed as a series of varied garden "rooms."
Based on its location and size, the cottage may be a gardener's cottage (I am still trying to confirm this point).
(Information from National Trust web page, English Heritage online information on the listed buildings and historic gardens, and Wikipedia, 29 May 2014, as well as Sarah Rutherford, The Arts and Crafts Garden (Shire Publications, 2013).)
(From the "archive" -- 2010.)
[Barrington Court Garden cottage border 2010 may 13 o; P5131065]
A Rúa do Vilar, uma das artérias emblemáticas do centro histórico de Santiago de Compostela, estende-se desde a Praça de Platerías, paralela à Rúa Nova. Caracterizada pelos seus soportais, arcadas de pedra construídas para proteger do clima e abrigar antigos vendedores, a rua reflete o seu passado nobre através de casas senhoriais renascentistas, barrocas e neoclássicas, adornadas com brasões e detalhes em cantaria e ferro forjado. Num desses edifícios, uma casa tradicional galega com fachada em pedra e balcões sustentados por pilares, funciona o Posto de Turismo Municipal, ponto de referência para visitantes. Este espaço oferece informações sobre o património, cultura e os percursos do Caminho de Santiago, integrando-se na arquitetura típica da zona e no contexto histórico de uma rua que preserva o traçado medieval e testemunha a adaptação dos edifícios às necessidades comerciais e de acolhimento dos peregrinos.
Rúa do Vilar, one of the emblematic streets in the historic center of Santiago de Compostela, runs from Plaza de Platerías parallel to Rúa Nova. Characterized by its soportais, stone arcades built to protect from the weather and house former vendors, the street reflects its noble past through Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical manor houses, adorned with coats of arms and details in stonework and wrought iron. One of these buildings, a traditional Galician house with a stone façade and balconies supported by pillars, houses the Municipal Tourist Office, a point of reference for visitors. This space offers information on the heritage, culture and routes of the Way of Saint James, blending in with the typical architecture of the area and the historical context of a street that preserves the medieval layout and bears witness to the adaptation of the buildings to the commercial and welcoming needs of the pilgrims.
Footbridge over the River Sett in the village of Hayfield.
Hayfield (SK037870) is a village and civil parish in High Peak, Derbyshire, England, with a population of around 2,700. The village is 3 miles (4.8 km) east of New Mills, 4.5 miles (7.2 km) south of Glossop and 10 miles (16 km) north of Buxton, in the basin of the River Sett.
The civil parish includes Hayfield village itself, the hamlets of Little Hayfield and part of Birch Vale, and a significant proportion of the Kinder Scout plateau.
The village lies on the line of a Roman road from Buxton (Aqua Arnemetia) to Glossop (Ardotalia). It is also on an important former packhorse route between Cheshire and Yorkshire. The village provided refuge for traders travelling from Castleton and Edale to Marple, Glossop and Stockport.
The village appears in the Domesday Book as "Hedfelt" (some sources state the village was recorded as Hedfeld), and Kinder was recorded separately as Chendre. It was included in the Royal Forest of the Peak in medieval times, but was not a parish until it was created perpetual curacy by Richard II. The forest was popular amongst Norman rulers for hunting, for which it was well noted.
St Matthew's Church, Highgate Hall, Fox Hall (dated 1625) and an adjoining barn are some of the earliest surviving buildings in the village. Fox Hall and Fox Hall Barn are near the bottom of Kinder Road and are visible from the car park of the Royal Hotel.
In 2011 Parques de Sintra purchased both the building (used to be a summer house of the Sasseti family) and the adjoining property with the objective of preserving them.
The property was recently restored and the main attractions are the fabulous gardens and walking tracks that lead all the way from Sintra up to the the Moorish Castle.
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Rua General Pando, em Ciudad Rodrigo, Espanha. Uma via estreita de pedra, ladeada por edifícios históricos de pedra e varandas de ferro forjado, onde os restaurantes e tabernas convidam a descobrir os sabores da região.
'explored' February 04, 2019 (#439)
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Flower container along the rue Gambetta in the centre of the town of Langeais (in the département of Indre-et-Loire, in the Centre-Val de Loire region of central France), on an overcast afternoon in early October 2016.
As is characteristic of the area of the Touraine, a historical, pre-Revolutionary province, many of the buildings along the street, as well as much of its paving, are of pale, silvery-grey to near-white tufa limestone (in French, tuffeau or tufeau).
Langeais sits along the River Loire, a little upstream from the point where the Indre flows into it.
[Langeais street container pelargoniums 2016 oct 9 f; DSCF0208]
Built upon a rock outcrop of the Apilles in the 12th century, Les Baux had a turbulent history until the fortress was destroyed on order of the French King in the 1600s. Les Baux des Provence is a rural commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southern France.
A view of a sheep grazing in a meadow outside the small village of Hopton Castle (South Shropshire, in the Welsh Borders region of western England), on a mostly sunny morning at the beginning of June 2015. Half-timbered houses, characteristic of the Welsh Borders, can be seen. The scene is framed by a doorway in the ruined keep of Hopton Castle.
The castle originated as an Anglo-Norman site, located by an earlier settlement -- there had been a late Anglo-Saxon manor there. The keep, all that remains, has Anglo-Norman features of the 11th or 12th century, but it may have been built during the 1260s (1264 being the date of the earliest surviving written record of it) in a deliberately "archaic" style. During the "English" Civil War (which actually involved Wales, Scotland, and Ireland as well as England), it was held by Parliamentarians until it was taken by Royalists during a fierce siege in 1644. The part of the structure that survived the siege subsequently fell into disrepair and ruin. A restoration project begun in 2006 shored up walls, conserved plaster, added railings for safety, and provided explanatory panels; the restored site opened to the public in December 2011.
The village and the castle of Hopton Castle are located in a quiet valley off a side road not far from the border between southwestern Shropshire and northwestern Herefordshire.
(Information about the castle from the Hopton Castle Preservation Trust website and Wikipedia, both last consulted 30 July 2019.)
[Hopton Castle houses framed sheep meadow 2015 jun 3 c; IMG_5367]
A Rua Navarro Villoslada, em Viana, Navarra, é um eixo do Caminho Francês de Santiago, preservando um traçado urbano medieval com edifícios de pedra adornados por varandas de ferro forjado. Fundada em 1219 por Sancho VII, o Forte, como defesa contra Castela, a cidade exibe orgulhosamente bandeiras vermelhas com o brasão de Navarra, sublinhando a identidade regional. A rua, que homenageia o escritor romântico Francisco Navarro Villoslada, pulsa com a atividade de peregrinos e esplanadas, refletindo a hospitalidade local e a coexistência entre património e comércio. O pavimento empedrado e a perspetiva linear da rua, enquadrada por edifícios altos, guiam os peregrinos rumo às ruínas da Igreja de São Pedro, junto às portas e muralhas de Viana. Este ambiente pitoresco, testemunha da história e da tradição festiva, liga Viana a La Rioja e Pamplona, integrando uma rota de peregrinação classificada como Património Mundial pela UNESCO, e onde repousam os restos mortais de César Bórgia na Igreja de Santa Maria.
Navarro Villoslada Street in Viana, Navarre, is a hub of the French Way of Saint James, preserving a medieval urban layout with stone buildings adorned with wrought iron balconies. Founded in 1219 by Sancho VII, the Strong, as a defense against Castile, the city proudly displays red flags bearing the coat of arms of Navarra, emphasizing its regional identity. The street, which pays homage to the romantic writer Francisco Navarro Villoslada, pulsates with the activity of pilgrims and terraces, reflecting local hospitality and the coexistence of heritage and commerce. The cobbled pavement and linear perspective of the street, framed by tall buildings, guide pilgrims towards the ruins of the Church of San Pedro, next to the gates and walls of Viana. This picturesque setting, a testament to history and festive tradition, connects Viana to La Rioja and Pamplona, forming part of a pilgrimage route classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and where the remains of César Borgia lie in the Church of Santa Maria.