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A view from our apartment window in the city. The church was probably a little too close as it rang the bells quite often and loudly. This large apartment cost us KR56 a night and we found out on the last night there were two other couples in other parts of the apartment.
One the outbuildings at the Monastery of Na’akuto La’ab hunkers under a bluff that bears the stains of untold years of exposure to the elements.
Near the center of the photo hang two lithophones, or a stone bells, in a rustic but sturdy stand. I will post a photo that shows the lithophones in greater detail.
Near Lalibela, Ethiopia.
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
Mainly Gothic stained glass recovered from windows throughout the church and reset behind the altar. Some modern infill, Baroque sculpture of Saints on the altar. 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.
Tile roof of 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. Roof rebuilt after it was destroyed at the end of the WWII. Austria, Vienna. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
This old stone building in downtown Guelph has been renovated, cleaned up and turned into offices, government departments and a brand new pizzeria that just opened prior to the pandemic.
This home has Buechel Stone's Desert Webwall Ref: Desert Webwall1. Visit www.buechelstone.com/shoppingcart/products/Desert-Webwall... for more information.
"THE JAIL, GLADSTONE, S. AUS 5-20-1909"
Photograph of members of the Kilties band next to a stone building and wall [Gladstone Gaol, South Australia].
One of a series of photographs from an album of the Kilties' world tour.
This home uses Buechel Stone's Antique Copper Country Castle Rock. Visit www.buechelstone.com/product/antique-copper-country-castl... for more information.
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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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The faded splendor of the rococco salon in the Hotel Decumani de Charme. 18th Century AD. Napoli, Campania, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
Dome of Grand staircase and foyer. Theatro Municipal (1909 AD, Francisco de Oliveira Passos architect), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Copyright 2017, James A. Glazier I really wish I had brought a better camera so I could have taken some appropriate photos of this wild building rather than these snapshots
This is the building of the old Mountain Crest Academy in northeastern Franklin County, Arkansas. It is located at a high point along the road from Combs, Arkansas to White Rock Mountain. The building was constructed in 1917 by the Presbyterian Church and served as a mission school until 1931. The first floor contained classrooms and a library and the second floor a boys dormitory. (A second building across the road served as the girls dormitory.) At that time it was the only school offering 12 grades in this rural region. After sitting empty for several years, in the early 1940s, it was sold to a Pentacostal Church which used it as a summer camp for a few years before selling it to a local farmer.
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
... but this library was closed at the time of our quick stop while driving through tiny Valentine, Texas. I wasn't able to learn much online about this library other than from a brief interview recorded with its then (and possibly now) director, who said it opened in 2009, two years after Kay Johnson's death. She lived on an area ranch and was apparently well-regarded by the community. www.kitchensisters.org/2019/02/14/valentine-tx-public-lib...
This attractive building stands out in Valentine, which appears to be close to ghost town status. It's located at the eastern edge of town on US Route 90. I had sped past it numerous times on my way to/from Big Bend but I made a decision to stop prior to this trip and somehow remembered to do so before missing it again.
Unidentified stone building with adjacent brick tower. Possibly the premises of A. Safe & Son, junk dealers, at 54 Station Street, Belleville, Ontario.
Chipping Campden is a small market town in the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire. It is notable for its elegant terraced High Street, dating from the 14th century to the 17th century.
Gallarus Oratory (a small church), dating from the 7th or 8th C. and the only remaining perfectly intact example of an early corbel-built rectangular oratory.
And here is the church in about 1952. As can be seen from the rain-stains on the stones, the church is not new, and may be several years old already, perhaps even a decade old. Photograph courtesy of Flickr user m20wc51, who scanned it from a slide taken by a US Army Chaplain. The original shot can be found here.
What makes it a great shot for me is the mom and son in the foreground, hurrying away after service, presumeably because she has work to do. She keeps her eyes down, bible in one hand, son's hand in the other; he, by contrast, has his eyes up, and is probably looking at a US serviceman who is just out of shot, a slight smile on his face. One wonders whether dad is in the military, or whether he doesn't go to church, or whether he might have died in the war. But the intensity of the woman, her determination, her clearly getting on with her life, I find fascinating. For each photograph, you only get a moment, and you'd better be ready because the moment will not come again; this is one that almost got away; and paradoxically, it is the blurred quality that actually makes the shot work as well as it does.
Big farm house in High Street. HDR by Photomatix.
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission.
© Roger A Perriss. All rights reserved.
Boxes, proscenium arch, curtain and orchestra pit. Teatro San Carlo. Napoli, 1817 AD. By Antonio Nicolini. Interior 1842 AD. Campania, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Ferguson.
This home has Buechel Stone's Desert Webwall. Ref: Desert Webwall2. Visit www.buechelstone.com/shoppingcart/products/Desert-Webwall... for more information.
The church of St Lawrence in the Frodingham area of Scunthorpe. I took an image from the same spot last weekend, but that was cloudy, this time I got the sun shining and the breeze blowing the daffs in the foreground. Movement helped by using f20 and low ISO
Some years ago, The Glendale Historical Society created a brochure highlighting the stone structures located in and around the Tujunga/Sunland area. The brochure, "From Stone Castles to Cottages," identifies numerous examples of stone architecture in the region.
Click on the "All Sizes" link above the image to see a larger version. All Illustrations are by Mimi McIntosh and the text was written by Joni L. Atkinson.
As the brochure's subject recalls Robinson Jeffers's own creation of Tor House and Hawk Tower in Carmel, CA, the Glendale Public Library is pleased to update and expand "From Stone Castles to Cottages" as a part of The Big Read: Robinson Jeffers and the Ecologies of Poetry.
Drawing on both its own collection and the holdings in neighboring institutions, the Library has made both the original brochure and accompanying materials available through the GPL website, Flickr, and Google maps.
Situated on the banks of the River Corrib in Galway city, Galway Cathedral is the most recently built of Europe's great stone cathedrals.
Two side by side heritage buildings that seem rather incongruous together but nevertheless... The Petrie Building (left) underwent extensive renovations over the past several years including propping up the foundation, which apparently was made of sand, with concrete footings. It is now occupied by Brothers Brewing, one of five breweries in Guelph and a wedding shop located above the brewery. The Kelly Building at right is now an office building with apartments above but back when I was a kid, it was one of two music stores in downtown Guelph. It sold mainly musical instruments and sheet music and carried a modest selection of 45 rpm singles and albums. As such, to get the latest "top 40" hits one had to be there at the right time as the three or four copies they got sold out rather quickly. The only band that had many more copies of their records was The Beatles (for some reason-haha). They rarely stocked anything by The Rolling Stones (Guelph was a kind of puritan place back then). This was the mid to late sixties. Frustrating as hell to be sure for record buyers.
Photograph of the stone building on Station Street, Belleville, Ontario known as 'Meyer's Mill", originally the Burrell axe factory.
Taken for the Historic Structures Committee of the Hastings County Historical Society in 1981.
Situated on the banks of the River Corrib in Galway city, Galway Cathedral is the most recently built of Europe's great stone cathedrals.
Creator: Unidentified.
Location: Townsville, Queensland.
Description: Q.A.T.B. is Queensland Ambulance Transport Brigade.
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Founded in 1874, Beatty Bros. Manufacturing Ltd. became a prominent international manufacturer of farm machinery and household appliances. It was bought out by GSW Ltd. in 1969and ceased to be an independent company. The building remains functional as a series of small businesses including a photography studio.
It may be October but autumn just started to take hold. The next few weeks here in Pennsylvania will turn the landscape into rainbows of color.