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Historical district of Naples. Now a UNESCO World Heritage site. I guess UNESCO recognizes modern grafitti as a cultural treasure. Napoli, Campania, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
Proscenium arch and curtain. Teatro San Carlo. Napoli, 1817 AD. By Antonio Nicolini. Interior 1842 AD. Campania, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Ferguson.
Montgomery Castle, the "new" castle (built in the 1220s) perched above the town of Montgomery (Montgomeryshire, Powys), as sun and rainclouds pass over in quick succession on a morning in mid-September.
Montgomery is a small market town in Mid Wales very near the border with Shropshire, England, above the Severn Valley; its Welsh name is Trefaldwyn. The first, wooden Norman castle in this strategic place was built on a lower hill, to be replaced up on a higher crag with this larger 13th-century stone structure. The "new castle," was begun in 1223, designed by Hubert de Burgh.
(From the "archive" -- 2007)
[Montgomery Castle ruins walls west 2007 sep 17 n]
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Le Palais de justice de Bruxelles est un imposant bâtiment de style éclectique situé sur la plus grande place de Bruxelles, la place Poelaert. D'une surface au sol de 26 000 m2, il est plus vaste que la Basilique Saint-Pierre de Rome. Il est l'œuvre de l'architecte Joseph Poelaert.
Le but symbolique matérialisé par le Palais de Justice, selon les conceptions de l'architecture de l'époque, qui voulait rendre visible les institutions dans la pierre, était de représenter et de concrétiser l'indépendance absolue de l'un des trois pouvoirs, le pouvoir judiciaire, par rapport aux deux autres, ainsi que l'avait voulu le Congrès national dans la nouvelle constitution garante de la démocratie.
La symbolique du palais, présente partout dans l'édifice, se réfère aux divers aspects de la fonction judiciaire, de la justice et du droit, elle montrait le triomphe tout récent du droit et de la Justice, désormais démocratique, émanant du peuple, égale pour tous et succédant à l'arbitraire de l'Ancien Régime.
Il était à l'époque le plus grand bâtiment du monde historique et reste aujourd'hui encore l'un des plus grands édifices de pierres de taille de la planète et est actuellement le plus grand palais de justice du monde. Sa superficie totale est de 52 464 m2 pour une surface bâtie de 26 006 m2 (contre 22 000 m2 pour la Basilique Saint-Pierre de Rome).
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The Courthouse in Brussels is an imposing building of eclectic style located on the largest square in Brussels, Place Poelaert. On a floor area of 26,000 m2, it is larger than St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. It is the work of architect Joseph Poelaert.
The symbolic order embodied by the Palace of Justice, according to the designs of the architecture of the time who wanted to make it the Institutions visible in the stone, was to represent and realize the absolute independence one of the three powers, the judiciary, compared to the other two, and had wanted the National Congress in the new constitution guaranteeing democracy.
The symbolism of the palace, everywhere in the building, refers to various aspects of the judicial function, justice and law, she showed the newly now democratic triumph of law and justice, from the people, equal for all succeeding and the arbitrariness of the Ancien Régime.
It was then the largest building in the old world and today remains one of the largest buildings of stone in the world and is currently the largest courthouse in the world. Its total area is 52 464 m2 of built a 26,006 m2 (22,000 m2 against Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome) surface.
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Worcester Cathedral. England. UK. Europe.
A walk around Worcester Cathedral. Not my cup of tea, but the wife loved it.
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Ceiling Fresco, Apollo presenting to Minerva the greatest poets of the world," by Antonio, Giuseppe and Giovanni Cammarano. Teatro San Carlo. Napoli, 1817 AD. By Antonio Nicolini. Interior 1842 AD. Campania, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Ferguson.
Postcard with a photo of Greystone residential buildings on the North Shore of Chicago. Greystones were built in Chicago between the 1890s and 1930s, and there are an estimated 30,000 still remaining today. Sent to a Postcrossing member in China.
This home uses Buechel Stone's Fond du Lac Castle Rock. Ref: Fond du Lac Castle Rock1. Visit www.buechelstone.com/shoppingcart/products/Fond-du-Lac-Ca... for more information.
On the way to the ruins at Songo Mnara from the landing point. This was formally a coconut plantation and still produces to this day.
Songo Mnara, Kilwa, Tanzania
St. Katherine's chapel with baptistmal font with hanging tracery canopy with saints and saint's lives. The canopy was originally hung over the pulpit in the nave of the church. Red marble, 1481 AD. St. Stephen's Dom (Cathedral) Catholic temple (church). Gothic. Begin in 1304 AD, vaulting completed in 1474 AD. North tower begun in 1450 AD and finished in 1511 AD. Austria, Vienna. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
Double-bass player. Theatro Municipal (1909 AD, Francisco de Oliveira Passos architect), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Copyright 2017, James A. Glazier
Altar, Reconstructed 14th Century AD church with 15th Century AD gilded wood and painted panel altarpiece. Bielefeld, Germany. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier. Bielefeld was thoroughly flattened during WWII. Pleasant town center, but very few historical buildings.
Along narrow Race Street, in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, there are many gorgeous stone front buildings, many with beautiful features, including brightly colored doors and window frames. Jim Thorpe is a tourist town in the Pocono Mountains resort area, located in northeastern Pennsylvania. The town is most popular in the period between Memorial Day (May 25 this year) and October.
Traditional trulli stacked-stone houses. Alberobello, Apulia, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier. A UNESCO Word Heritage Site. Enjoyable spot, but someone must have been owed a favor.
An old stone building (1868) in Daytown (Delta), Ontario, Canada.
It was built in 1868 as per its date stone, but I'm still researching its origins.
Given its design, it could have been a former one-room schoolhouse or a church.
Opened in 1880, Folsom is the state's second-oldest prison, after San Quentin, and the first in the United States to have electricity. Folsom was also one of the first maximum security prisons, and has been the execution location of 93 condemned prisoners.
Musician Johnny Cash put on two live performances at the prison on January 13, 1968. These were recorded and released as a live album titled At Folsom Prison. He had written and recorded the song "Folsom Prison Blues" over a decade earlier.
This is the only vantage point available for photography as visitors are not permitted to cross this street. Currently, 3,000 men are imprisoned here.
Note: This prison view is shown at the opening of the 1991 movie "Frankie & Johnny" starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino.
Did you know:
The Hangman's Rope
The loops in the rope were determined by the size of the condemned man's neck and the distance between his neck and his ears. This would ensure the man would be knocked unconscious and therefore suffer less during the hanging. The length of the rope was determined by the size and weight of the man. The ropes were pre-stretched to prevent any unnecessary bounce during the hanging drop.
Folsom, California
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Chipping Campden is a small market town in the Cotswolds. It is notable for its elegant terraced High Street, dating from the 14th century to the 17th century. A rich wool trading centre in the Middle Ages, Chipping Campden enjoyed the patronage of wealthy wool merchants. Today it is a popular Cotswold tourist destination with old inns, hotels, specialist shops and restaurants. The High Street is lined with honey-coloured limestone buildings, built from the mellow locally quarried oolitic limestone known as Cotswold stone, and boasts a wealth of fine vernacular architecture.
Source: Wikipedia
Boxes and Royal Box. Note victory angels carrying wreaths. Teatro San Carlo. Napoli, 1817 AD. By Antonio Nicolini. Interior 1842 AD. Campania, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Ferguson.
It was build around 1840 and used first as a school for about 10 years. Then it became a Court House, jail (three jail cells) and registry office.
June 20, 2023 - "The Cité de Carcassonne is a fortified medieval city located on a hill in the old town of Carcassonne, in the Occitanie region of southern France. It is located on the right bank of the Aude and in the southeast of the current city. Its origins date back to Gallo-Roman times and it was enlarged into a fortress in the Middle Ages. The fortified city is surrounded by a double wall (each about three kilometers long with a total of 52 towers). The main buildings within the Cité, which is still inhabited, are a castle (Château comtal) and a church (Basilique Saint-Nazaire).
In the 19th century, the already decaying city of Carcassonne was restored under the direction of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. This resulted in an extensive well-preserved historical monument that was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.
Carcassonne was founded as Carcasso in the 1st century BC. Founded by the Romans on the site of today's Cité. The so-called Gallo-Roman towers with a horseshoe plan on the inner wall testify to the Carcasso period.
On the 14 hectares, where between 3,000 and 4,000 people lived in the Middle Ages, 229 permanent residents live today. All the others work for tourism and live abroad. La Cité is a large open-air museum used by tourists and is not normally accessible by car.
Legend has it that the fortress was once besieged by Charlemagne, when Mme Carcas was the lady of the castle. The siege lasted so long that famine soon claimed the first victims in the Cité. Mrs. Carcas then decided to stuff a pig with wheat and, when she was fat enough, she threw it off the castle wall. The besiegers, already exhausted, thought when they saw the fat animal that fell from their towers that the city must have food to spare. Dejected, Charlemagne's men gave up and returned home. When the town bells rang to celebrate the end of the siege, one of the besiegers is said to have exclaimed Madame Carcas sonne (Carcas sounds).
In 1208, Pope Innocent III, faced with the increase and extension of Catharism, decreed the Albigensian Crusade. The Count of Tolosa and the Viscount of Carcassonne are accused of heresy and their territories become the main target of the attack by the barons from France. On August 1, 1209, the city is besieged by the Crusaders. Raymond Roger Trencavel surrenders to them on August 15 in exchange for the lives of its inhabitants. The villages around the city are destroyed. The viscount dies of dysentery in his castle prison on November 10, 1209. Other sources speak of an assassination planned by Simon de Montfort.
The city becomes the headquarters of the crusade troops. The land and city are delivered to Simón de Montfort, military chief of the Crusader army. He died in 1218 during the siege of Toulouse and his son, Amaury VI de Montfort, took possession of the city, but was unable to manage it. He cedes the rights to it to Louis VIII of France, but Ramon VII of Toulouse and the counts of Foix allied against the king. In 1224, Ramón Trencavel II took possession of the city after Amaury fled.
Louis VIII launches a second crusade in 1226 and Ramón Trencavel must flee. The city of Carcassonne becomes part of the domain of the King of France and becomes the seat of a seneschal. A period of terror is installed inside the city among the inhabitants; the search and hunting of the Cathars multiplies the bonfires in the squares and there are continuous savage denunciations, with the installation of an Inquisition Tribunal within the city precincts.
Louis IX of France orders the construction of the second walled enclosure so that the city can withstand long sieges and sieges. Trencavel, refugee in Aragon, intends to recover his land. At the same time, the king of Aragon, Jaime I the Conqueror, is considered a constant threat to the region, very close to the borders of his kingdom, the city being part of the defensive system of the border between France and Aragon.
After the annexation of Roussillon to France by the Treaty of the Pyrenees, the military role of Carcassonne was greatly reduced, as the distance to the Spanish border increased considerably. The role of command post for the defense of the border was transferred to Perpignan.
The walls of the Cité date from various periods of construction. The oldest parts of the wall were erected at the time of the Visigoths. They can be recognized by the layers of small cube-shaped stones, interrupted by layers of bricks, and by the narrowness of the towers, which are already equipped with real windows. The castle was mainly built in the 12th century. The outer ring of walls with their smooth ashlars dates from the middle of the 13th century.
At the end of the 13th century some of the towers and parts of the inner wall were built, which was then being rebuilt and advanced. The ashlars from this period are mostly carved with art. The towers have several floors and are provided with loopholes. The building material for the two concentric belts of fortifications was brought from the surrounding quarries: hard sandstone, difficult to extract and work, but which over the centuries began to erode under the influence of violent storms from the southwest.
The interior of the walls is made of rounded stones, fragments of rock and sand, agglutinated with lime, which also serves as mortar. The texture of the masonry varies with each period of construction.
The regular outer wall, 1.5 kilometers long, was built in 15 years shortly after 1230, hence its uniform appearance. The construction history of the 1.3 km long inner wall is much more complicated and its masonry is far from uniform. At that time, the city already had a wall from the Gallo-Roman era that was around 1,000 years old, but it was no longer up to date. Today it forms the skeleton of the inner belt and can often be seen at the bottom of today's wall.
As always in such cases, the area between the two walls is called the Zwinger. The kennel kept the attacker in an area that militia projectiles could reach. The wall must be as high as possible, because until the 14th century people did not shoot back, they shot back. In times of peace, such a kennel was used for games and knightly combat festivals. In some cases, the old parts of the wall were supported on new foundations when they were tapped, so that the strange picture arises that the oldest part is higher than the later one.
The ditch around the wall was not filled with water, but it had the function of preventing the use of larger siege engines, which had to be directed against the wall at right angles to the direction of the Zwinger and therefore did not have sufficient access. here. The fortification of the city with a double fence corresponded to a new defensive tactic that had been designed around 1200 around the king in the time of Philip Augustus (1180-1223). His principle was: the defense must be active, it must be able to inflict heavy losses on the attacker. Therefore, more than a thousand archers were stationed on the battlements, and the towers flanked the entire wall without leaving a blind spot.
It was possible to advance towards the Zwinger between the two city walls without exposing oneself to the full mass of besiegers. This allowed early attackers who were said to have advanced this far to be pursued individually or in small groups. With this tactic, one could successfully resist even a numerically superior siege force.
Many towers of the outer line are so-called shell towers, i. that is to say, they are open at the back, so that the enemy could not take refuge once they crossed the first wall. Then it could still be attacked from the inner wall, for example by archers. However, the effectiveness of this defense has never really been proven." Previous description: www.topworldimages.com/Cite_de_Carcassonne.htm
I guess I should apologise for the rather tidy state of our alleys. This was the scuzziest alley I saw today in downtown Guelph and it was only this "bad" because it was garbage pickup day.
Entrance, nave and rebuilt vaulted ceiling. St. Stephen's Dom (Cathedral) Catholic temple (church). Gothic. Begin in 1304 AD, vaulting completed in 1474 AD. North tower begun in 1450 AD and finished in 1511 AD. Austria, Vienna. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
"Coronado Heights is a hill northwest of Lindsborg, Kansas, United States. It is alleged to be near the place where Francisco Vásquez de Coronado gave up his search for the seven cities of gold and turned around to return to Mexico. Coronado Heights is one of a chain of seven sandstone bluffs in the Dakota Formation and rises approximately 300 feet." From Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronado_Heights
Boxes and Royal Box. Note victory angels carrying wreaths. Teatro San Carlo. Napoli, 1817 AD. By Antonio Nicolini. Interior 1842 AD. Campania, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Ferguson.
Lion protome and Gothic cornices with arches and heads. Gothic (1469 AD-1495 AD) rebuilding on top of Romaneqsque foundations (1229 AD by Frederick II of Swabia) of the Duomo. Old town (Centro Storico). Ostuni, the "White City." Apulia, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
Candles, Reconstructed 14th Century AD church with 15th Century AD gilded wood and painted panel altarpiece. Bielefeld, Germany. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier. Bielefeld was thoroughly flattened during WWII. Pleasant town center, but very few historical buildings.
This delightful small town in the Cotswolds is one of my favourites. The houses and shops on the main street are mainly 17th and 18th century and built from the lovely butter-coloured Cotswold limestone.
All Saints Church in the market town of Evesham (Worcestershire, in west-central England), on a partly sunny afternoon in mid-May.
This Anglican parish church was originally founded during the 12th century as part of the Benedictine Evesham Abbey, was added to during the subsequent medieval centuries, and then was extensively restored by the Victorian architect Frederick Preedy 1872-1876 (according to Wikipedia -- the dates in Alan Brooks and Nikolaus Pevsner, Worcestershire (Yale University Press, 2007), p. 291, are 1874-1876, though some 1872 elements are also mentioned there).
Today it stands in Abbey Park, which incorporates the grounds of the former abbey.
[Evesham All Saints Church side 2010 may 18 o; P5181707]
St. George's Church in downtown Guelph was constructed in 1873 from limestone at a cost of $26,000. To build it today would likely cost slightly more!
Decided to stop downtown Mason City to take some shots of the historic down town including the Park Inn and City National Bank. Enjoy the main street of Mason City Iowa.
City. The Tower of Babel, 1563 AD. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, (1525 AD - 1569 AD), Dutch. Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna, Austria. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
This church located alongside the Speed River in downtown Guelph, was built in 1873 even though St. George's Church has been serving Guelph since 1832. The church is highlighted by an imposing clock tower and has numerous stained glass windows as well as several smaller rose windows. The church also has a decorative roof that is visible from various locations.
Buxton Opera House. Frank Matcham, 1903 AD. Buxton, England, United Kingdom. Copyright 2018, James A. Glazier.
My good guide Ibrahim insisted on taking one more selfie of me the rough flag stone streets of Lahic village. Apart from Sirince (Turkey) and Mtshketa (Georgia) which I mentioned earlier, the large flag stones on this street also reminded me of Daxu, China, which I had visited just three months earlier, in May. Lahic village is located quite deep in the mountains near Ismailli, Azerbaijan, but has now been opened up to tourists, after the Govt. realized it's tourist potential. It does have a historic feel to it, including of when you see the residents- most are old with many of the younger residents having moved out to seek their fortunes in the oil industry in Baku and elsewhere. The elders here here keep old traditions alive, including ancient arts of copper, leather and iron goods making, especially considering that the rocky terrain surrounding the village is not amenable to agriculture. The village has however become rather touristy and a tad overly commercial nowadays, thanks to the steady influx of tourists. Life here must be tough though, considering the village is cut off completely during the winter months, which is about half of the year. (Instagram image, taken with my iPhone 6+ in less than ideal lighting conditions. ) (Lahic/ Lahij, Azerbaijan, Sept. 2017)