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A small gothic church (Siecle XIII ) with baroque paints. Bordon belong to a Templar council at middle ages. There are a lot of alegoric paints related with iniciatic Templar rituals. This church is known as "the Spanish Rosslyn Chapel".
As usual at Maestrazgo, Teruel.
Low light... High ISO: so much grain
Sony a6000+samyang 12mm combo
The Temple Church is a Royal peculiar church in the City of London located between Fleet Street and the River Thames, built by the Knights Templar as their English headquarters. It was consecrated on 10 February 1185 by Patriarch Heraclius of Jerusalem
The Temple Church is a Royal peculiar church in the City of London located between Fleet Street and the River Thames, built by the Knights Templar as their English headquarters. It was consecrated on 10 February 1185 by Patriarch Heraclius of Jerusalem
A bastion in the northwest corner of the fortifications around Rhodes, Greece, was designed to defend the Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights Templar from attack via the moat.
Ready to lead the Peregrine Crusade into its next battle, always followed by his faithful familiar and personal standard bearer, Rupert.
The model is based on the master of the arsenal, converted with bits from the Emperor's Champion, a FW storm shield, (FW's) Lufgt Hurons shoulderpad, (Citadel's) Lufgt Hurons backpack and some brass etch here and there.
Sarona was formerly a colony of Templars from Germany dating back to 1871 - leading to the area's distinct architecture.
Sarona Museum is the Sarona Visitor Center. Here you can get information about upcoming events in Sarona. The museum is housed in the former home of the Templer Baldenhofer family. Carl Baldenhofer was an engineer who worked for the Wagner brothers. After the establishment of Israel, the Ministry of Police and Minorities occupied the building. Later the Israel State Archives and the Prime Minister's Library were kept here.
In Pflugfelder House you can learn how the Templers introduced an olive press run by a diesel engine, to replace the traditional olive press that was turned by a donkey.
Under the modern city lies the Roman city of Sellium. After the conquest of the region from the Moors in the Portuguese Reconquista, the land was granted in 1159 as a fief to the Order of the Knights Templar. Its Grand Master in Portugal, and Tomar's somewhat mythical founder, Gualdim Pais, laid in 1160 the first stone of the Castle and Monastery that would become the headquarters of the Order in Portugal.
Local traditional legends preach that the choice was for mystical reasons and by divine inspiration, from practices like geomancy by the Grand Master, based on exercises taken from luck and predestination. Reinforcing this magical view is the fact that the lot was part of a small chain of seven elevations (lugar dos sete montes), which became known as the city of seven hills, as the seven hills of Jerusalem, the seven hills of Rome or the seven columns of Constantinople.
The foral or feudal contract was granted in 1162 by the Grand Master to the people. The Templars ruled from Tomar a vast region of central Portugal which they pledged to defend from Moorish attacks and raids. Like many lords of the unpopulated former frontier region of central Portugal, the villagers were given relatively liberal conditions in comparison with those of the northern regions of Portugal, in order to attract new immigrants. Those inhabitants who could sustain a horse were obliged to pay military service in return for privileges. They were not allowed the title of Knight which was reserved to the monks. Women were also admitted to the Order, although they didn't fight.
In 1190 Abu Yusuf al-Mansur, a Moroccan caliph, and his army attacked Tomar. However the crusader Knights and their 72-year-old leader kept them at bay. A plaque commemorates this bloody battle at the Porta do Sangue at the Castelo Templário (Castle of Tomar). In 1314, under pressure from the Pope Clement V, who wanted the Templars banned throughout Europe, King Dinis negotiated instead to transfer the possessions and personnel of the Order in Portugal to a newly created Order of Christ. This Order in 1319 moved south to Castro Marim, but in 1356 it returned to Tomar. In the 15th century the position of (cleric) Grand Master of the Order was henceforth nominated by the Pope, and the (lay) Master or Governor by the King, instead of being elected by the monks.
Henry the Navigator was made the Governor of the Order, and it is believed that he used the resources and knowledge of the Order to succeed in his enterprises in Africa and in the Atlantic. The cross of the Order of Christ that was painted in the sails of the caravels that crossed the seas, and the Catholic missions in the new lands were under the authority of the Tomar clerics until 1514.
Henry, enriched by his overseas enterprises, was the first ruler to ameliorate the buildings of the Convento de Cristo since its construction by Gualdim Pais. He also ordered dams to be built to control the river Nabão and swamps to be drained. This allowed the burgeoning town to attract more settlers. Henry ordered the new streets to be designed in a rational, geometrical fashion, as they can still be seen today.
In 1438, King Duarte, away from Lisbon because of the Black Death, died there instead.
View of the round Templar church (12th century) of the Convent of the Order of Christ
Church of Santa Maria do Olival, burial place for the Knights Templar of Tomar
Just after 1492 with the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the town increased further with Jewish refugee artisans and traders. The very large Jewish minority dynamized the city with new trades and skills. Their experience was vital in the success of the new trade routes with Africa. The original synagogue still stands.
In the reign of Manuel I of Portugal the convent took its final form within the Manueline renaissance style. With the growing importance of the town as master of Portugal's overseas empire, the leadership of the Order was granted to the King by the Pope.
However, under pressure from the monarchs of Spain, the King soon proclaimed by Edict that all the Jews remaining within the territory of Portugal would be after a short period considered Christians, although simultaneously he forbade them to leave, fearing that the exodus of Jewish men of knowledge and capital would harm Portugal's burgeoning commercial empire. Jews were largely undisturbed as nominal Christians for several decades, until the establishment of a Tribunal of the Portuguese Inquisition by the initiative of the Catholic Clergy in the town. Under persecution, wealthier Jews fled, while most others were forced to convert. Hundreds of both Jews and New Christians were arrested, tortured and burned at the stake in autos da fé, in a frenzy of persecution that peaked around 1550. Many others were expropriated of their property. Jewish ascendancy, more than Jewish religion, together with personal wealth determined whom would be persecuted, since the expropriations reverted to the institution of the Inquisition itself. The town lost then with the persecution of its merchants and professionals most of its relevance as a trading centre. New Christian names among the inhabitants are very common today.
In 1581 the city was the seat of the Portuguese Cortes (Feudal Parliament) which acclaimed the King of Spain Felipe II as Portugal's Filipe I.
During the 18th century Tomar was one of the first regions of Portugal in industry. In the reign of Maria I, with royal support, a textile factory of Jácome Ratton was established against the opposition of the Order. The hydraulic resources of the river Nabão were used to supply energy to this and many other factories, namely paper factories, foundries, glassworks, silks and soaps.
Tomar was occupied by the French during the Napoleonic invasions, against which it rebelled. Duke of Wellington with his Portuguese and English troops liberated the city afterwards.
In 1834 all the religious orders, including the Order of Christ, were disbanded.
More previously unused random stuff ...this taken on a flying visit to Bristol during January 2015. We are on Redcliffe Bridge, popularly "the Bascule Bridge". In nearly sixty years' residence in the city I saw it raised only once, and that for maintenance purposes rather than to allow the passage of a vessel. I was on the buses in those days and my trip out to Keynsham on the 349 was diverted, I think via Redcliff Street ...note the different spelling. The First plastic coming towards us appears to be numbered 32940 (W840 VLO). Obviously I'd no idea what this was, so looked it up on Bus Lists. I'm not much the wiser. It seems to be something called a Dennis Trident bodied by Alexander, new in 2000, so probably nearing the end of its days here. The original owner is given as First Capital and there are Flickr photos showing it in service in London and Glasgow. Sheesh! Things have changed since my day. Taken with my Fujifilm GW690 II on Ilford Delta 400 developed in Promicrol.
In un angolo della marca Trevigiana, a Tempio di Ormelle, vicino ad Oderzo, si trova questa splendida chiesa templare, qui veramente si respira un'aria diversa, un posto dove meditare e liberare i propri pensieri.....
In one corner of the Marca Trevigiana, Temple of Ormelle, close to Oderzo, there is this wonderful Templar church, here really is a different feel, a place to meditate and free their thoughts .....