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Le Thoronet Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey built in the late twelfth and early thirteenth century.
It is sited in the Var, Department of Provence, in southeast France.
Chiesa di Santa Maria (metà del XII secolo)
Fiancata destra.
Da notare la doppia ghiera degli archetti sul fronte della navata laterale mentre sul fronte della navata principale sono a triplice ghiera.
Church of Santa Maria (mid-twelfth century)
Right side.
Note the double ferrule of the arches on the front of the side aisle while on the front of the main nave they are triple ferrules.
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Re-uploaded after the failing of Flickr and it's update feed yesterday, but otherwise a previously unpublished shot from December 2016.
Hopefully Flickr is working today and you can see this shot and I can get to enjoy all of your wonderful photography.
Only 12 days until Christmas and I wonder if it is too late to ask Santa for a working and stable Flickr.
Take care everyone.
Watermelon is delicious at breakfast, lunch, dinner and in-between.
Evidence of its cultivation in the Nile Valley has been found from the second millennium BC onward. Watermelon seeds have been found at Twelfth Dynasty sites and in the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
Watermelon can be considered a fruit or a vegetable
Prague
One of the most beautiful cities in the world and at the same time the Czech metropolis with approximately 1.2 million inhabitants. The history of permanent settlement in the territory of today's Prague is very rich, people have lived here for seven millennia. However, Prague gained great importance only during the time when the Přemysl princely and later royal dynasty ruled here. The flourishing medieval city, which benefited mainly from the huge turnover of its merchants, became our metropolis in the twelfth century. Thanks to the care of Karl IV. and the founding of the New City of Prague, Prague could compete with Florence or Paris at one time, and not only in terms of population.
Prague twice became the seat of the Roman Emperor (Charles IV and Rudolph II) and later, in 1918, became the center of the modern Czechoslovak state (since 1993 only the Czech state). A city literally overflowing with culture, sights, but also places where you can relax beautifully.
The church Santa Marta di Solci (twelfth century) is located in the countryside near Villarios a few kilometers from Giba.
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Þrettándinn, also known as Twelfth Night, is celebrated on January 6th but as it was too windy then for bonfires and fireworks the merrymaking was postponed until tonight.
Located on the Piazza del Duomo in Bergamo Citta Alta, one can admire the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a remarkable example of Lombard Romanesque. Building work started in 1137 (twelfth century) thanks to a town vote which promised the construction of a splendid church in exchange for the end of the plague epidemic which had afflicted the city. The primitive Romanesque structure (one nave and two aisles, with two major portals, two minor portals and an octagonal cupola) has been reworked over the centuries to the point where it is now very difficult to detect it. The most radical change was the construction of the Colleoni Chapel in the place of the old sacristy, at the same time as the addition, on the northern side, of the new sacristy. The Gothic steeple which dominates the portal is, in turn, an addition made in the fifteenth century. All the portals are the work of Giovanni da Campione. Of these the one next to the Colleoni Chapel (1353) deserves particular attention, as it blends Romanesque features (the round type of arch, the decoration of the portal depicting medieval animals and warriors), with a more exquisitely Gothic flavour. Giovanni da Campione is actually one of the last of the group of so-called "Campionese masters", who lived and worked in the transitional period from the Romanesque to the Gothic style. The equestrian statue of St Alexander by the same artist, which dominates the portal can already be fully classed as Gothic style.
The inside has also been radically changed compared to the original Romanesque structure, by decorations in stucco and marble from the seventeenth century; a wooden choir by Andrea Previtali (1470-1528) and Bernardino Zenale (1450-1526, one of the architects who contributed to the building of Milan Cathedral), following a design by Lorenzo Lotto; a wooden confessional by Andrea Fantoni, an interesting example of baroque art; Flemish tapestries from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the one which depicts the "Crocefissione" (Crucifixion) is particularly spectacular; frescos from the Giottesque school of the 1400s, representing the Stories of the Life of St Eligio and an "Ultima Cena" (Last Supper).
Yesterday's sunset from atop Mailbox Peak at about 5,000ft. Had a fun nightime descent. Looks like 12's take their spirit everywhere.
Looking south, toward Mt. Rainier in the background.
Looking towards mid twelfth century Dolbadarn castle that is the guardian of the Llanberis pass as it stands overlooking natural llyn padarn in Llanberis,built by Llywelyn ap Iorweth.
Actors from the Shakespeare in the Squares production of Twelfth Night in Ladbroke Square. Great fun
Explore - #18
The Riverside Drive Viaduct, built in 1900 by the US City of New York, was constructed to connect an important system of drives in Upper Manhattan by creating a high-level boulevard extension of Riverside Drive over the barrier of Manhattanville Valley to the former Boulevard Lafayette in Washington Heights.
F. Stuart Williamson was the chief engineer for the municipal project, which constituted a feat of engineering technology. Despite the viaduct's important utilitarian role as a highway, the structure was also a strong symbol of civic pride, inspired by America’s late 19th-century City Beautiful movement. The viaduct’s original roadway, wide pedestrian walks and overall design were sumptuously ornamented, creating a prime example of public works that married form and function. An issue of the Scientific American magazine in 1900 remarked that the Riverside Drive Viaduct's completion afforded New Yorkers “a continuous drive of ten miles along the picturesque banks of the Hudson and Harlem Rivers.”[1]
The elevated steel highway of the viaduct extends above Twelfth Avenue from 127th Street (now Tiemann Place) to 135th Street and is shouldered by masonry approaches. The viaduct proper was made of open hearth medium steel, comprising twenty-six spans, or bays, whose hypnotic repetition is much appreciated from underneath at street level. The south and north approaches are of rock-faced Mohawk Valley, N.Y., limestone with Maine granite trimmings, the face work being of coursed ashlar. The girders over Manhattan Explore - #40
Street (now 125th Street) were the largest ever built at the time. The broad plaza effect of the south approach was designed to impart deliberate grandeur to the natural terminus of much of Riverside Drive’s traffic as well as to give full advantage to the vista overlooking the Hudson River and New Jersey Palisades to the west.
The viaduct underwent a two-year long reconstruction in 1961 and another in 1987. (source: Wikipedia)
At our house the pretty outdoor lights stay up until the spring equinox or they burn out, whichever comes earlier.
Never release an unwanted Christmas tree into the wild. They are not native to the UK, are highly unlikely to be accepted by a pack and are condemned to fend for themselves alone. Most become feral scavengers and are likely to die of starvation. Many are shot by farmers. This one was lucky. We got to it in time. Remember, trees are for life, not just for Christmas.
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The twelve days of Christmas comes to an end ..but fairy lights especially these ,stand on my side table ,in the corner of the lounge ,shining over Daisy s casket ..funny it is the same wood as my coffee table is made from , yet Lexie has not even scratched it ,..yet the corners of my coffee table have been well and truly chewed !
Hollywood is a city in Broward County, Florida, located between Fort Lauderdale and Miami. The average temperature is between 68 and 83 degrees. As of July 1, 2015 Hollywood has a population of 149,728. Founded in 1925, the city grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s, and is now the twelfth largest city in Florida. Hollywood is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.
Joseph W. Young founded the city in 1925. He dreamed of building a motion picture colony on the East Coast of the United States and named the town after Hollywood, California. Young bought up thousands of acres of land around 1920, and named his new town "Hollywood by the Sea" to distinguish it from his other real estate venture, "Hollywood in the Hills", in New York
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood,_Florida
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Hallandale Beach (formerly known simply as Hallandale) is a city in southern Broward County, Florida. The city is named after Luther Halland, the son of a Swedish worker for Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railroad. As of the 2010 census, the population was 37,113.
The city is known as the home of Gulfstream Park (horse racing and casino) and Mardi Gras Casino, a greyhound racing track which hosts the World Classic. It also has a sizable financial district, with offices for a number of banks and brokerage houses, plus many restaurants. Due to the large number of tourists who eventually retire in the city, Hallandale Beach has one of the fastest-growing populations in Broward County and in Metro Miami.
Hallandale Beach, like most of Broward County, had no permanent European-descended population until the end of the 19th century. Seminole Indians, in settlements that lay inland of the Atlantic shore, hunted in the area and gathered coontie roots to produce arrowroot starch. The northern edge of Hallandale Beach (along Pembroke Road) still features noticeable hammocks, points elevated above sea level in the distant past.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallandale_Beach,_Florida
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Sunny Isles Beach (SIB, officially City of Sunny Isles Beach) is a city located on a barrier island in northeast Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The city is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Intracoastal Waterway on the west.
Sunny Isles Beach is an area of cultural diversity with stores lining Collins Avenue, the main thoroughfare through the city.
It is a growing resort area and developers such as Michael Dezer have invested heavily in construction of high-rise hotels and condominiums while licensing the Donald Trump name for some of the buildings for promotional purposes. Sunny Isles Beach has a central location, minutes from Bal Harbour to the south, and Aventura to the north and west.
Sunny Isles Beach was also the 2008 site of MTV's annual "Spring Break" celebration, with headquarters at the local Newport Beachside Resort.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_Isles_Beach,_Florida
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Here are all TWELVE... yes, 12 Black Label Farrah Fawcett Barbies repainted and restyled by Noel Cruz of ncruz.com. Will 12 be enough? Doubtful. Photographed in a Regent Miniatures A-Frame Cabin decked for the Holidays with a custom Christmas Tree also by Ken Haseltine.
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Villa Romana del Casale - about 350 A.D. - Piazza Armerina - province of Enna, Sicily
UNESCO World Heritage Site (1997)
Sappiamo che la Villa del Casale – datata alla metà del IV secolo d.C. – nasce in un luogo già abitato da secoli.
Tra i possibili proprietari si è ipotizzato anche l’imperatore Massimiano o suo figlio Massenzio. Oggi un’ipotesi accreditata è quella di Lucio Aradio Valerio Proculo: uomo politico attivo a Roma in un’epoca che coincide anche con le ipotesi di costruzione della villa.
Molto interessante è la storia della villa nei secoli successivi alla caduta dell’impero Romano d’Occidente. Essa dimostra come la dimora venne abitata nei secoli successivi da nuovi padroni i quali, evidentemente, continuarono ad apprezzare l’arte musiva romana.
Infatti, la Sicilia fu in mano a diversi dominatori barbari (Vandali e Ostrogoti) dalla caduta dell’Impero Romano fino al 535 d.C. quando venne riconquistata dal generale bizantino Belisario. I goti la tennero poi ancora per un biennio (549-551) fino a che non venne riconquistata dai bizantini che la governarono poi fino al IX secolo quando venne invasa dagli arabi.
Sappiamo che in epoca bizantina la villa fu abitata e si giovò anche di restauri. Fu poi abitata anche dagli arabi tanto da assumere il nome di Casale dei Saraceni.
Quando, a metà dell’XI secolo, i normanni conquistarono la Sicilia, anche loro abitarono la Villa del Casale. Nel XII secolo, infine, uno smottamento del Monte Mangone seppellì la villa consentendo che almeno i suoi mosaici giungessero intatti fino a noi.
We know that the Villa del Casale - dated to the mid-fourth century AD - was built in a place already inhabited for centuries.
Among the possible owners it has been hypothesized also the emperor Massimiano or his son Massenzio. Today an accredited hypothesis is that of Lucius Aradio Valerius Proculus: a politician active in Rome in a period that also coincides with the hypothesis of the construction of the villa.
Very interesting is the history of the villa in the centuries following the fall of the Western Roman Empire. It shows how the residence was inhabited in the following centuries by new masters who, evidently, continued to appreciate the Roman mosaic art.
In fact, Sicily was in the hands of several barbarian rulers (Vandals and Ostrogoths) from the fall of the Roman Empire until 535 AD when it was reconquered by the Byzantine general Belisarius. The Goths then held it for another two years (549-551) until it was re-conquered by the Byzantines who then governed it until the ninth century when it was invaded by the Arabs.
We know that in Byzantine times the villa was inhabited and also benefited from restoration. It was then inhabited by the Arabs so as to take the name of Casale dei Saraceni.
When, in the middle of the eleventh century, the Normans conquered Sicily, they also inhabited the Villa del Casale. In the twelfth century, finally, a landslide of Mount Mangone buried the villa allowing at least its mosaics came intact to us.
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
|| still learning photography and had fun with this little floral shoot
iphone quality yo!!
my cousin and i took a trip to arizona and california on our own this summer and it was incredible. seeing the grand canyon for myself mesmerized me. i stood there for hours and i couldn't help but to think how the earth could create something so beautiful on its own. photographs will never capture all of it's beauty, because it's something you really have to see on your own. i miss it already.
So, maybe its safe to return ?
Santa finally came today, at my own instigation !
Seems there's a 'bug' going around - he was delayed in Austria.
Seattle loves the Seahawks! This man, like many others, was wearing jersey #12 for the "twelfth man" - the fans who loudly support the eleven players on their favorite American football team.
Looking across Elliott Bay to part of downtown. HBW!
The River Medina is the main river of the Isle of Wight, an island off the south coast of England, rising at St Catherine's Down in the south of the Island and flowing through the capital here at Newport, towards the Solent at Cowes. Here the river is a navigable tidal estuary flowing northwards where it takes the form of a ria (a drowned valley). The Medina is 17 km long with a catchment area of 17 km2. The river flows northwards collecting the Merston Stream at Blackwater before intersecting the ridge at Shide. The Lukely Brook is a tributary to the main river rising in Bowcombe Valley and joining the river at the head of the estuary in Newport.
Its current state has occurred because the Medina used to be a tributary of the river Solent and have a much larger catchment area, as the Solent valley flooded and the island eroded the river received less water flow and more sediment, causing it to become more tidal.
The river is bridged at Newport. Cowes is connected to East Cowes by a chain ferry known as the Cowes Floating Bridge.
The name Medina came from the Old English Meðune meaning "the middle one", and the current pronunciation was first recorded as 'Medine' in 1196.
The river is used by yachtsmen as a very safe harbour. Along the banks of the Medina there are many old warehouses and wharves where in the past flying boats, hovercraft and steam ships were built and developed. The Classic Boat Museum displays much of the river's history alongside the history of yachting. The Island Harbour Marina, an old tidal mill, is also located on the river, about 1 mile from Newport.
Newport is a civil parish and a county town of the Isle of Wight. Newport has a population of 23,957 according to the 2001 census. The town is situated slightly to the north of the centre of the Island, at the head of the navigable section of the River Medina, which flows towards the Solent, and on which the town has this quay.
There are signs of Roman settlement in the area, which was probably known as Medina, including two known Roman villas one of which, Newport Roman Villa, is excavated and open to the public.
There was little later use until after the Norman conquest with the first charter being granted late in the twelfth century. In 1377 an invading French force burnt down much of the town while attempting to take Carisbrooke Castle, then under the command of Sir Hugh Tyrill. A group of French were captured and killed, then buried in a tumulus later nicknamed Noddies Hill, a "noddy" being medieval slang for a body. This was later corrupted to Nodehill, the present-day name for a part of central Newport – a name confusing to many as the area is flat.
In 1648 Charles I and a group of Parliamentary Commissioners concluded the Treaty of Newport, an attempt at reaching a compromise in the Civil War, undermined by Charles's negotiations with the French and Scots to intervene on his behalf. The Treaty was repudiated by Oliver Cromwell upon returning from defeating the Scots at The Battle of Preston leading to Charles's execution.
The town was incorporated as a borough in 1608. The town's position as an area of trade accessible to the sea meant it rapidly took over from Carisbrooke as the main central settlement, eventually absorbing the latter as a suburb. The borough ceased to exist in 1974 after the incorporation of the larger Borough of Medina, which was itself superseded in 1995 by a single unitary authority covering the whole of the Isle of Wight.
In recent times, Newport has undergone an influx of changes, with two shopping centres and all new road directions to show for the town's recent development efforts. Newport Quay has also been re-developed, with art galleries such as the Quay Arts Centre, and new flats converted from old warehouses. Newport Harbour is a secure haven in all weathers and seasons and an ideal base for exploring England's biggest island. Using the harbour as a base you can explore unspoilt countryside, spectacular coastline, charming villages and visit a variety of attractions. Attractions beside the harbour include the Quay Arts Centre, the Riverside Centre and a recently established nautical museum called the Classic Boat Museum. The compact town centre is only a few minutes walk away and offers a wide range of shops, including branches of most leading national High Street retailers and several "superstores". There are modern leisure facilities and many pubs and restaurants catering for most tastes and budgets.
Speed within the Harbour is restricted to 4 knots.
The building in the background is Jubilee Stores, which is owned and run by Quay Arts, and is an attractive arts complex overlooking Newport Harbour. It houses a Ceramics Workshop, Jewellery Studio, General Workshop with print facilities, and seven Artists' Studios. Most of Quay Arts' Classes and Workshops programme takes place in this creative facility.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Medina
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport,_Isle_of_Wight
onthewight.com/2013/01/09/quay-arts-start-up-studio-call-...
Well by tomorrow night all the decorations will be down and the festivities ended for another year. Hope next year we won't be still getting hassle re Covid.