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Everyone says that there’s nothing to see in Manchester but personally I saw many interesting buildings. Of course some part of the city were a disaster but there’s still some buildings like this that proofs that old architecture was way better in all: beauty, design, materials and decorations.
During coronavirus lockdown period.
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I will upload some photographs of the interior sometime next week.
Situated on the banks of the River Corrib in Galway city, Galway Cathedral is the most recently built of Europe's great stone cathedrals.
15th Century AD house. Bielefeld, North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier. Bielefeld was thoroughly flattened during WWII. Pleasant town center, but very few historical buildings.
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
This is the Stone Lodge, which serves as the Family Lodge at Rancho Oso NACO, which is northeast of Santa Barbara, California. (09-12-21-0847)
8.Crain Communications Building is a 39-story, 582 foot (177 m) skyscraper located at 150 North Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago, Illinois.[1] It was also known as the Smurfit–StoneBuilding and the Stone Container Building and was formerly called the Associates Center.[2] Construction began in 1983 and was completed in 1984. The building, noted for its unusually slanted facade, was designed by Sheldon Schlegman of A. Epstein and Sons. The building has 39 floors of tenant space and the two spires at the top cover the main roof and HVACequipment. Although the building looks as though it is split down the middle, the two sides are only slightly disjointed until nearing the top, where there is a gap between them. At times, its slanted roof—which has been likened to a skyscraper slashed with a knife—displays local sports slogans on its face, such as "GO BEARS" and "GO SOX".[3][4] It also displayed "VOTE 2008" during the 2008 election day rally at Grant Park.[3]At the time of its construction the Crain Communications Building was considered to be a smart building, with sophisticated environmental and security controls. Three years after its completion, the building played a role in the Touchstone Pictures film Adventures in Babysitting. The building is also modeled in EA's SimCity 4, as well as being destroyed in the film Transformers: Dark of the Moon and in the videogame Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2. The building name was changed to the Crain Communications Building in March 2012, after Crain Communications moved its headquarters there.[5] It is popularly referred to as the Diamond Building or the Vagina Building (from the locally popular but apocryphal story that, with its prominent vertical slit up the front, the building was designed to be a yonic counter to the phallicism of most skyscrapers)
The rock house begain with the Dodrill family who were originally from England. They settled in Mint Canyon along Sierra Highway, just north of the small community of Sleepy Valley in 1916. They built a roadside service station they called the "Oaks Garage" and sold Standard brand gasoline. Initially the garage was a wooden building that included a snack counter and the family lived behind it in a tent-covered home.
In the early 1920s the Dodrills trucked in boulders from a quarry in Quartz Hill. They expanded on the structure, building a diner that ajoined the garage, and walled in both of them with the rocks.
By the 1960s the building was functioning as a roadside diner with a counter/bar and tables inside. In 1971 the diner featured prominently in the the first film Steven Spielberg would produce, "Duel".
In 1980 the derelict building and ajoining property was purchased by Juan Alonso, who transformed the rock house into Le Chene French Cuisine.
July 3, 2023 - Sculpture "Fiel Contraste" by Ramón Conde (2010)
"The sculptural group is located in the place where the Alhóndiga or municipal grain market was in the Middle Ages. The central statue recalls the medieval Civil Servant (hired by the town hall) who, at the entrance to the walls of Pontevedra, near the Bastida Tower, faithfully contrasted with his scales the weights and measures of the goods that were to be sold in the city.
Until the 16th century, the Alhóndiga was located where the Pontevedra City Hall is today. At the entrance to the Alhóndiga, the Fiel Contraste was responsible for checking the weights and measures of all the goods that arrived there to be sold. The taxes on the market depended on the verification of the weight of bread or cereals or the measures of wine. The disappearance of this profession occurred with the unification of weights and measures brought about by the Bourbon administration, with the appearance of the metric system and, finally, with the inauguration of the current City Hall in 1880.
The commercial and fishing boom in Pontevedra had boosted the holding of markets in the city, notably the Feira Franca granted to Pontevedra in 1467 by King Henry IV of Castile, when the city was the main port in Galicia." Previous description: www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Fiel_contraste
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
This is the stone building that Kim spotted from the highway. We turned off and found our way to it. The winds were so strong we had difficulty standing to shoot!
I believe like many building in Germany, even this one has been built inside the walls of the old one.
Photographer: Unidentified
Location: Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Date: 15 October 1899
View this image at the State Library of Queensland: hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/55892
Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/picture-queensland
Built in 1855, additions 1887 to 1907. Photographed on a visit to Fort Stanton in New Mexico, USA. The fort was founded in 1855. The buildings were constructed over the following decades.
View from the Walled Garden of the Castle of Mey (Caithness, in northeastern Scotland), over a line of sweetpeas (Lathyrus odoratus), on an overcast morning in early September. Despite the "extreme" location on the north coast of Scotland, the shelter of the walls helps to nurture flowers in this garden even in autumn.
The Castle of Mey, now open to the public, was a favourite home of the former Queen Mother Elizabeth. It was originally built by George Sinclair, 4th Earl of Caithness, between 1566 and 1572, as a tower house; it was held by the Sinclairs of Mey, with its name changed to Barrogill Castle, until 1889. Barrogill Castle was added to during the 17th-19th centuries.
In 1952, the year that Elizabeth, Queen Consort of George VI, became the dowager queen -- the Queen Mother, or "Queen Mum" -- the sandstone castle, which she purchased, was in a semi-derelict condition. Both the buildings and the gardens were extensively restored and adapted to be a comfortable royal residence in a quiet location. During her lifetime, in 1996, she turned the Castle of Mey over to a trust (foundation). Since her her death, it has been opened to the public, from May through September.
The walled garden and the parkland are protected by a 12-foot-high wall, the "Great Wall of Mey." It protects them from the sea spray that could otherwise reach in from the Pentland Firth, which is only 400 yards away.
(Information from the Castle & Gardens of Mey website and from Wikipedia, both most recently consulted 7 September 2014.)
(from the "archive" -- 2007)
[Castle of Mey and sweetpeas autumn 2007 sep 7 n; DSCN0080]
15th Century bourgeois house, rebuilt and now used as shops. Bielefeld, North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier. Bielefeld was thoroughly flattened during WWII. Pleasant town center, but very few historical buildings.
This is one of many historic buildings in downtown Bethlehem built by the Moravians, the religious group which established the city. The buildings are a mixture of churches, church related buidings, museums, private residences and former dormitories for single adult Moravians. A few are part of the Moravian College complex. Suggest viewing photo in large size.
Saw this old mill while driving through the backroads of Lancaster County, PA. They just don't build structures like this anymore.
Built c. 1889, this substantial mill building, at right, is associated with the development of the wheat industry in South Australia in the latter part of the 19th century and specifically with the export of flour from the state through Port Adelaide. It is a rare example of a purpose-built late 19th century flour mill in South Australia, and when considered with the adjacent 1855 Hart's Mill, at left, provides the only known example of two generations of flour mill buildings surviving on one site.
At 2407 feet Mt Cheaha is the highest point in Alabama. The view from the tower is amazing!! This tower was built by the ccc in 1933.
This is the old pump house by Oak Creek. This is just north of Tlaquepaque by the Creekside shops and restaurant. on the west side of Oak Creek south of the Y in Sedona
The pumphouse was commissioned by the Forest Service and built in 1932 by the Civilian Conservation Corp. Its simple cobblestone and wood-shingle construction is a splendid example of pioneer Sedona architecture. It is sequestered in a grove of giant sycamores close to Oak Creek,
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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.
The stone Waterworks building replaced the oiginal log building built in 1754, which was the first pumped municipal waterworks in the colony of Pennsylvania. The waterworks was designed by a Danish Moravian millright for the early Moravian community in Bethlehem. The waterwheel,located inside of the buiding's lower level, which extends lower than the external ground level, turned by water from the Monocacy Creek, turned a series of gears, which powered pistons. The pistons drove pumps that moved fresh water from a spring through a lead pipe up a hill and into a 30 foot water tower. From there, the water travelled, via gravity, through hollow hemlock logs to serve the community. Benjamin Franklin studied the water works/water distribution system.. The Waterworks is designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark.
January 5, 2019 - On a walking tour to King David's Tomb and Hall of the Last Supper. Both are located within the same Crusader Building. Beneath the Hall of the Last Supper on the lower floor is the Tomb of King David. Photography is not allowed in King David's Tomb. Mount Zion, Jerusalem, Israel.
Possibly the guardhouse, which is one of three intact buildings at the fort site. Fort Phantom Hill was a mid-19th Century Army outpost north of Abilene, Texas. The fort was established in 1851 to protect settlers from Native American attacks in the area. The fort was used by the U.S. and Confederate armies and also served as a way station for the Butterfield Stagecoach. A few outbuildings, chimneys and stone foundations remain of the long-abandoned fort.
Photographed during a visit to the ancient stone village of Saint-Paul-de-Vence, near Nice in France.
It is now the Tecumseh Historical Society Museum. On the National Historic Register, and located on M 50
image by Philbrick Photography
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Photographed on a visit to Fort Stanton in New Mexico, USA. The fort was founded in 1855. The buildings were constructed over the following decades.