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Sculpture near the Estates Theatre (Stavovské divadlo), Ovocný trh (fruit market), Old Town (Staré Město), Prague (Praha), Czech Republic.
The title of the sculpture is "Il Commendatore", it was created by Anna Chromy in memory of W.A. Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, premiered in the Estates Theatre on Oct. 29th, 1787.
The Historic Centre of Prague is inscribed in the World Heritage List of the UNESCO.
Citation from whc.unesco.org/en/list/616
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Built between the 11th and 18th centuries, the Old Town, the Lesser Town and the New Town speak of the great architectural and cultural influence enjoyed by this city since the Middle Ages. The many magnificent monuments, such as Hradcani Castle, St Vitus Cathedral, Charles Bridge and numerous churches and palaces, built mostly in the 14th century under the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV.
Prague is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe in terms of its setting on both banks of the Vltava River, its townscape of burger houses and palaces punctuated by towers, and its individual buildings.
The Historic Centre represents a supreme manifestation of Medieval urbanism (the New Town of Emperor Charles IV built as the New Jerusalem). The Prague architectural works of the Gothic Period (14th and 15th centuries), of the High Baroque of the 1st half of the 18th century and of the rising modernism after the year 1900, influenced the development of Central Europe, perhaps even all European architecture. Prague represents one of the most prominent world centres of creative life in the field of urbanism and architecture across generations, human mentality and beliefs.
Prague belongs to the group of historic cities which have preserved the structure of their development until the present times. Within the core of Prague, successive stages of growth and changes have respected the original grand-scale urban structure of the Early Middle Ages. This structure was essentially and greatly enlarged with urban activities in the High Gothic period with more additions during the High Baroque period and in the 19th century. It has been saved from any large-scale urban renewal or massive demolitions and thus preserves its overall configuration, pattern and spatial composition.
In the course of the 1100 years of its existence, Prague’s development can be documented in the architectural expression of many historical periods and their styles. The city is rich in outstanding monuments from all periods of its history. Of particular importance are Prague Castle, the Cathedral of St Vitus, Hradćany Square in front of the Castle, the Valdgtejn Palace on the left bank of the river, the Gothic Charles Bridge, the Romanesque Rotunda of the Holy Rood, the Gothic arcaded houses round the Old Town Square, the High Gothic Minorite Church of St James in the Stark Mĕsto, the late 19th century buildings and town plan of the Nave Mĕsto.
As early as the Middle Ages, Prague became one of the leading cultural centres of Christian Europe. The Prague University, founded in 1348, is one of the earliest in Europe. The milieu of the University in the last quarter of the 14th century and the first years of the 15th century contributed among other things to the formation of ideas of the Hussite Movement which represented in fact the first steps of the European Reformation. As a metropolis of culture, Prague is connected with prominent names in art, science and politics, such as Charles IV, Petr Parléř, Jan Hus, Johannes Kepler, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Kafka, Antonín Dvořák, Albert Einstein, Edvard Beneš (co-founder of the League of Nations) and Václav Havel.
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Seit 1986 ist die Liebfrauenkirche Teil des UNESCO-Welterbes Römische Baudenkmäler, Dom und Liebfrauenkirche in Trier.
Die Geschichte der Liebfrauen-Basilika führt in das Jahr 326 n. Chr. Zum 20-jährigen Regierungsjubiläum machte Kaiser Konstantin große Stiftungen. Unter anderem ließ er an den bedeutendsten Orten der Christenheit Kirchen bauen: die Geburtskirche in Bethlehem, die Grabeskirche in Jerusalem, die 1. Sophienkirche in Konstantinopel, die Peterskirche und die Laterankirche in Rom und eben die Doppelkirchenanlage in Trier, aus der die Hohe Domkirche und die Liebfrauenkirche hervorgegangen sind.
Nach den Wechselfällen der Geschichte stand der Erzbischof Theoderich von Wied (1212 - 1242) im Blick auf die Südkirche, die den Titel einer Aula beatae Mariae Virginis trug, vor einem Neuanfang. Die Baufälligkeit der Kirche ließ ihn französischen Baumeistern Gehör schenken, die aus der Champagne kamen, in der gerade die Gotik erfunden worden war. Was sie dem Erzbischof anboten, war eine Kirche im allerfeinsten hochgotischen Stil. Auf der Basis einer zwölfblättrigen Rose (Rosa Mystica) wollten sie eine Kirche bauen, die - vom Kreuz durchwebt - wie ein Juwel in der Sonne funkeln sollte, mit großen, die Heilsgeschichte erzählenden Fenstern, licht und weit und himmelhoch. Zwölf schlanke Säulen sollten das Gewölbe tragen, das, übersät mit leuchtenden Lilien, den Garten des Paradieses vorstellen sollte, in dem Maria und Jesus dargestellt sind. Eine Aula Dei als Liebeserklärung an die Gottesmutter. Der Kurfürst war begeistert. 1227 begannen die unbekannten gotischen Baumeister ihre Arbeit, die sie 33 Jahre an Trier binden sollte. Es entstand im reinsten Stil der Hochgotik der Champagne, als eines der Wunder der Gotik eine der ganz seltenen gotischen Zentralkirchen von außerordentlicher Schönheit und Harmonie.
1803 wurde Liebfrauen vom Dom getrennt und trat in eine neue Phase ihrer Geschichte: Sie wurde Pfarrkirche und nahm die Laurentiuspfarrei auf. Als Trier 1944 schwer bombardiert wurde, traf es mit aller Härte auch die Liebfrauenkirche; unter größter Anstrengung wurde sie nach dem Krieg gerettet und wiederhergestellt.
Quelle: www.liebfrauen-trier.de/pfarrkirche%20liebfrauen.htm
"Fantova kavárna -- Fanta's Cafe.
It is a small place, with tables around a hole looking down into the lower passage to the train platforms.... The attraction is that it sits in the preserved Art Nouveau entrance hall of the station. I use the term preserved loosely. Very loosely. This gorgeous, artistic building is falling apart. But it still has a great amount of beauty....The café gets its name from the architect of the train station, Josef Fanta. It was finished in 1909." (Source)
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"Der Hauptbahnhof von Prag ist eines der architektonischen Meisterstücke des untergehenden Habsburger Reiches. Er wurde von Josef Fanta entworfen und offiziell 1909 als Franz-Josef-Bahnhof eröffnet. Zwischen 1972 und 1979 wurde der Bahnhof um ein neues Terminal vergrößert, zu dem eine U-Bahn Station und eine Hauptstraße auf dem Dach des Gebäudes gehören.
Wenn man nur kurz auf der Durchreise ist oder mit der Metro ankommt, kann man die verbliebenen Art Nouveau Teile leicht übersehen; vor allem die luftige Kuppel, die Glasfenster und die geschnitzten Frauengesichter repräsentieren Prag als „Mutter aller Städte“. Oben befindet sich neben dem Fantova Kavarna (Cafe) der ursprüngliche Eingang, der mit seinem schmiede-eisernen Baldachin und den nackten Figuren, die sich an beiden Seiten des Turms festhalten, nach wie vor kaiserlich anmutet." (Mal nicht Wikipedia)
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Votive candle holder in St. Marienkirche" (St. Mary's Church), Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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The Lutheran Marienkirche (St. Mary's church) in Lübeck (German: Lübecker Marienkirche or officially St. Marien zu Lübeck: St. Mary's of Lübeck) was constructed between 1250 and 1350. For many years it has been a symbol of the power and prosperity of the old Hanseatic city, and as Germany's third largest church it remains the tallest building of the old part of Lübeck. It is larger than Lübeck Cathedral. Along with the city, the church has been listed by UNESCO as of cultural significance.
It is a model for the brick Gothic style of northern Germany, reflected in approximately 70 churches in the Baltic Area. In Lübeck, the high-rising Gothic style of France was adapted to north German brick. At 38.5 meters (125 ft) the church has the highest brick vault in the world. Taking the weather vanes into account, the towers are 124.95 meters (406 ft) and 124.75 meters (405.5 ft) high.
St. Mary's is located in the merchant's borough, which stretches from the docks of the River Trave all the way up to the church itself. It is the main church of the local council and the people of Lübeck, and was erected near the market and town hall. (...)
On the night of Palm Sunday from 28 to 29 March 1942, the church was almost completely burnt out during an Allied bombing raid along with about a fifth of Lübeck city centre, including the Lübeck Cathedral and St. Peter's Church. (...) Reconstruction began in 1947, and, in 12 years, the majority was complete.
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The old city center of Lübeck is in great parts inscribed in the World Heritage List of the UNESCO. A plan of the inscribed zones can be found here: whc.unesco.org/download.cfm?id_document=102311
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Lübeck – the former capital and Queen City of the Hanseatic League – was founded in the 12th century and prospered until the 16th century as the major trading centre for northern Europe. It has remained a centre for maritime commerce to this day, particularly with the Nordic countries. Despite the damage it suffered during the Second World War, the basic structure of the old city, consisting mainly of 15th- and 16th-century patrician residences, public monuments (the famous Holstentor brick gate), churches and salt storehouses, remains unaltered.
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Sightseeing tour with Seppo and Merja on 15 September 2013.
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La basilica di San Francesco in Assisi, è il luogo che dal 1230 conserva e custodisce le spoglie mortali del Santo serafico. Voluta da papa Gregorio IX quale specialis ecclesia[1], venne insignita dallo stesso Pontefice del titolo di Caput et Mater dell'Ordine minoritico[2] e contestualmente affidata in perpetuo agli stessi frati.
Nella complessa storia che ha segnato l'evoluzione dell'Ordine, la basilica (e l'annesso Sacro Convento) fu sempre custodita dai cosiddetti "frati della comunità", il gruppo che andò in seguito a costituire l'Ordine dei Frati Minori Conventuali.
Nell'anno 2000, insieme ad altri siti francescani del circondario, la basilica è stata inserita nella Lista del patrimonio dell'umanità dell'UNESCO.
Il 16 luglio del 1228, a soli due anni dalla morte, Francesco venne proclamato santo da papa Gregorio IX; il giorno dopo, 17 luglio, lo stesso Pontefice e il rappresentante dell'Ordine minoritico, frate Elia da Cortona, posero la prima pietra per la costruzione di quella imponente basilica.
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A Basílica de São Francisco de Assis, na região italiana da Úmbria, é a igreja-mãe da Ordem Franciscana e um Patrimônio da Humanidade desde 2000.
A construção da basílica começou logo após a canonização de Francisco em 1228. Simone di Pucciarello doou o local para a igreja, uma colina a oeste da cidade de Assis, conhecida como Colina do Inferno (onde os criminosos eram mortos). Hoje, o local é conhecido como Colina do Paraíso. A pedra fundamental foi posta pelo Papa Gregório IX, em 17 de Julho de 1228. A igreja foi projetada e supervisionada pelo irmão Elia Bombardone, um dos primeiros seguidores do santo. A basílica inferior foi terminada em 1230.
No dia de Pentecostes, em 25 de Maio de 1230, o corpo de Francisco foi trazido para o local. A construção da basílica superior começou logo após 1239 e foi finalizada em 1253. Sua arquitetura é uma síntese do Românico e do Gótico Italiano. As igrejas foram decoradas pelos maiores artistas daquele tempo, vindos de Roma, Toscana e Úmbria. A igreja inferior tem afrescos de Cimabue e Giotto; na igreja superior está uma série de afrescos com cenas da vida de São Francisco, também atribuída a Giotto e seus seguidores. A Basílica é administrada pelos Frades Menores Conventuais (OFM Conv.). Os Frades Franciscanos Conventuais são os gardiães dos restos mortais do Santo de Assis.
No dia 26 de setembro de 1997, Assis foi atingida por dois fortes terremotos que danificaram severamente a basílica (parte do teto dela ruiu durante o segundo tremor, destruindo um afresco de Cimabue) que passou dois anos fechada para restauração.
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The Papal Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi (Italian: Basilica Papale di San Francesco, Latin: Basilica Sancti Francisci Assisiensis) is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor—commonly known as the Franciscan Order—in Assisi, Italy, the city where St. Francis was born and died. The basilica is one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Italy. With its accompanying friary, the basilica is a distinctive landmark to those approaching Assisi. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000.
The basilica, which was begun in 1228, is built into the side of a hill and comprises two churches known as the Upper Church and the Lower Church, and a crypt where the remains of the saint are interred. The interior of the Upper Church is an important early example of the Gothic style in Italy. The Upper and Lower Churches are decorated with frescoes by numerous late medieval painters from the Roman and Tuscan schools, and include works by Cimabue, Giotto, Simone Martini, Pietro Lorenzetti and possibly Pietro Cavallini. The range and quality of the works gives the basilica a unique importance in demonstrating the development of Italian art of this period.
Scan of an analog photo taken in May 2005.
Unfortunately ub 2005 it was quite impossible to take any good photos with an analog camera within this dimly lit but nevertheless very stunning villa which once belonged to Poppea, the wife of Emperor Nero. A good photo docmentation is available on the Spanish Wikipedia entry of Villa Poppea.
Die Moschee Hazrat Xizr ist die älteste Von Samarkand.
Hier befindet sich auch das Mausoleum von Islom KARIMOV:
Samarkand wurde etwa 750 v. Chr. gegründet. Der mongolische Herrscher Timur machte Samarkand zur 1369 zur Hauptstadt seines Großreichs und baute die Stadt zu einer der schönsten und bedeutendsten Metropolen seiner Zeit aus.
Die Altstadt von Samarkand ist Weltkulturerbe der UNESCO.
Tallinn has an unusually well preserved medieval city wall. Of the original 2.35 km a total of 1.85 km and 26 out of 46 towers still are preserved.
View of Melantrichova street from the viewing platform of the gothic Old Town Hall (Staroměstská radnice) at Old Town Square (Staroměstské náměstí), Old Town (Staré Město), Prague (Praha), Czech Republic.
The Historic Centre of Prague is inscribed in the World Heritage List of the UNESCO.
Citation from whc.unesco.org/en/list/616
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Built between the 11th and 18th centuries, the Old Town, the Lesser Town and the New Town speak of the great architectural and cultural influence enjoyed by this city since the Middle Ages. The many magnificent monuments, such as Hradcani Castle, St Vitus Cathedral, Charles Bridge and numerous churches and palaces, built mostly in the 14th century under the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV.
Prague is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe in terms of its setting on both banks of the Vltava River, its townscape of burger houses and palaces punctuated by towers, and its individual buildings.
The Historic Centre represents a supreme manifestation of Medieval urbanism (the New Town of Emperor Charles IV built as the New Jerusalem). The Prague architectural works of the Gothic Period (14th and 15th centuries), of the High Baroque of the 1st half of the 18th century and of the rising modernism after the year 1900, influenced the development of Central Europe, perhaps even all European architecture. Prague represents one of the most prominent world centres of creative life in the field of urbanism and architecture across generations, human mentality and beliefs.
Prague belongs to the group of historic cities which have preserved the structure of their development until the present times. Within the core of Prague, successive stages of growth and changes have respected the original grand-scale urban structure of the Early Middle Ages. This structure was essentially and greatly enlarged with urban activities in the High Gothic period with more additions during the High Baroque period and in the 19th century. It has been saved from any large-scale urban renewal or massive demolitions and thus preserves its overall configuration, pattern and spatial composition.
In the course of the 1100 years of its existence, Prague’s development can be documented in the architectural expression of many historical periods and their styles. The city is rich in outstanding monuments from all periods of its history. Of particular importance are Prague Castle, the Cathedral of St Vitus, Hradćany Square in front of the Castle, the Valdgtejn Palace on the left bank of the river, the Gothic Charles Bridge, the Romanesque Rotunda of the Holy Rood, the Gothic arcaded houses round the Old Town Square, the High Gothic Minorite Church of St James in the Stark Mĕsto, the late 19th century buildings and town plan of the Nave Mĕsto.
As early as the Middle Ages, Prague became one of the leading cultural centres of Christian Europe. The Prague University, founded in 1348, is one of the earliest in Europe. The milieu of the University in the last quarter of the 14th century and the first years of the 15th century contributed among other things to the formation of ideas of the Hussite Movement which represented in fact the first steps of the European Reformation. As a metropolis of culture, Prague is connected with prominent names in art, science and politics, such as Charles IV, Petr Parléř, Jan Hus, Johannes Kepler, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Kafka, Antonín Dvořák, Albert Einstein, Edvard Beneš (co-founder of the League of Nations) and Václav Havel.
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Das Schloss Stolzenfels steht über dem nach ihm benannten Koblenzer Stadtteil Stolzenfels auf der linken Seite des Rheins, gegenüber der Lahnmündung. Das neugotische Schloss ist das herausragendste Werk der Rheinromantik.
Seit 2002 ist das Schloss Stolzenfels Teil des UNESCO-Welterbes Oberes Mittelrheintal,
des Weiteren ist es ein geschütztes Kulturgut nach der Haager Konvention.
Burg Stolzenfels
In den Jahren 1242 bis 1259 errichtete der Trierer Erzbischof Arnold II. von Isenburg die Burg Stolzenfels als kurtrierische Zollburg. Ihr gegenüber liegt auf der Lahnsteiner Seite die 1232 erbaute kurmainzische Burg Lahneck. Der noch heute erhaltene fünfseitige Bergfried entstand 1248. Burg Stolzenfels wurde von den Erzbischöfen Kuno und Werner von Falkenstein in den Jahren 1388 bis 1418 mit einem Wohnturm sowie dem Palas auf der Rheinseite erweitert. Die Rolle der Zollburg übertrug Werner von Falkenstein 1412 auf die 1371 von Kuno erbaute, rheinabwärts gelegene Burg Kunostein, die an der Stelle des später errichteten Schloss Engers stand.
Im Dreißigjährigen Krieg wurde Burg Stolzenfels 1632 erst von den Schweden und anschließend für jeweils zwei Jahre ( 1634 und 1646 ) von den Franzosen besetzt. Nach ihrer Zerstörung 1689 im Pfälzischen Erbfolgekrieg durch die Franzosen verfielen die Ruinen in den nächsten 150 Jahren. Die Stadt Koblenz machte sie im Jahre 1815 dem Kronprinzen Friedrich Wilhelm von Preußen, dem späteren König Friedrich Wilhelm IV. und Sohn Königs Friedrich Wilhelm III., zum Geschenk.
Dieser nahm jedoch erst 1823 unter Oberbürgermeister Abundius Maehler kurz nach seiner Heirat mit Elisabeth Ludovika von Bayern die Schenkung an.
Schloss Stolzenfels
Im Jahre 1826 bis 1830 ließ Friedrich Wilhelm IV. von dem Architekten Johann Claudius von Lassaulx die klassizistisch-neuromanische Pfarrkirche Sankt Menas in Stolzenfels errichten. Gleichzeitig baute er die Burg als Sommersitz wieder auf. Bis 1842 entstand unter Mitwirkung Karl Friedrich Schinkels ( nach 1839 unter Leitung von Friedrich August Stüler ) das heutige Schloss. Unverkennbar sind die Einflüsse der englischen Neugotik und Schinkels romantischer Stil. Die Räume der Sommerresidenz wurden mit wertvollen Möbeln und Gemälden ausgestattet. Der imposanteste Raum ist der zweischiffige gewölbte Rittersaal, in dem alte Ritterrüstungen ausgestellt sind. Vorbild für die Gestaltung des Rittersaals war die Marienburg bei Danzig. Die romantisierende Umgebung des Schlosses ( z.B. Turnierplatz ) gestaltete der Gartenarchitekt Peter Joseph Lenné.
Im Jahre 1842 waren der Ausbau und die Renovierung des Schlosses beendet. Am 14. September zog König Friedrich Wilhelm IV. mit seiner in historischen Kostümen gekleideten Begleitung schließlich ein. 1843 war die als Personalwohnung geplante Klause an der Auffahrt durch die Ingenieuroffiziere Naumann und Carl Schnitzler vollendet. Nach Plänen Schnitzlers entstand 1845 noch die neugotische Kapelle.
Hohen Besuch bekam das Schloss Stolzenfels im Jahre 1845 von der britischen Königin Victoria.
Das Schloss heute
Schon kurz nach Fertigstellung stand das Schloss bei Abwesenheit des Königs Besuchern zur Besichtigung offen. Auch heute lassen sich Torgebäude, gotischer Wohnturm, Palas mit gewölbtem Rittersaal, Pergolagarten und Bergfried besichtigen. Im Rittersaal befinden sich Sammlungen von historischen Waffen und Trinkgefäßen. Die Besucher werden in Filzpantoffeln durch die wunderschönen Wohnräume geführt. Im mittelalterlichen Wohnturm befindet sich ein Saal mit Wandmalereien des Berliner Malers Hermann Stilke. Sie zählen heute zu den bedeutendsten Werken der rheinischen Hochromantik. Neben südlichen Einflüssen ( z. B. Springbrunnen im Pergolagarten ) begegnet der Besucher einer bunten Inneneinrichtung, die durch die Sammelleidenschaft Friedrich Wilhelms IV. zustande kam.
Seit 2002 ist das Schloss Stolzenfels Teil des von der UNESCO ausgezeichneten Welterbes Oberes Mittelrheintal. Für die Rheinromantik-Ausstellung im Landesmuseum Koblenz 2002 wurde ein digitales Modell erstellt, das den Zustand von 1845 rekonstruiert, beruhend auf restauratorischen Untersuchungen. In Überblendungen sind stufenlose Vergleiche möglich zwischen der Ruine, wie sie ein Korkmodell um 1830 zeigt, den Bauaufnahmen und Ausbauplänen der Architekten von Lassaulx, Schinkel, Stüler u. a., ferner den künstlerischen Darstellungen in Aquarellen von Caspar Scheuren u. a., sowie schließlich dem ausgeführten und 1845 eingeweihten Bau.
Jährlich kommen bis zu 250.000 Besucher zum Schloss.
Zur Bundesgartenschau 2011 in Koblenz wird das Schloss Stolzenfels mit 16 Millionen Euro aus Landesmitteln restauriert und ist deshalb nicht zu besichtigen. Das äußere Erscheinungsbild wird wieder hergerichtet und die Gärten werden nach den alten Plänen des Gartenbaumeisters Peter Joseph Lenné neu angelegt.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Stolzenfels
Seit 2002 ist es Teil des UNESCO-Welterbe - Oberes Mittelrheintal
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Castillo de Stolzenfels
frente a la desembocadura del rio Lahn en el rio Rin
El castillo de Stolzenfels es una construcción que se levanta en la localidad del mismo nombre cerca de Coblenza ( Alemania ) a orillas del río Rin en un punto cercano a la desembocadura del Río Lahn.
Historia
Durante la Guerra de los Treinta Años, el antiguo castillo fue ocupado por el ejército sueco en 1632 y luego por el ejército francés entre 1634 y 1646. Los ocupantes franceses destruyeron el edificio, que paso más de cien años en estado de ruina. En 1823 la ciudad de Coblenza obsequió a Federico Guillermo IV de Prusia lo que quedaba del castillo.
Federico Guillermo mandó construir el nuevo edificio al arquitecto alemán Friedrich Schinkel, quien era jefe del departamento de obras del Estado prusiano y arquitecto de la familia real. La construcción fue terminada en 1847.
El castillo hoy
En ausencia del rey, poco después de la finalización, el castillo fue abierto al público.
También hoy son dignos de visitar: Puerta de entrada, torre residencial gótico, el Palas, con una sala abovedada de los caballeros, Jardín pérgola, Mantenga. En la sala de los caballeros son colecciones de armas históricas y recipientes para beber. Modelo para el diseño de la Sala de los Caballeros fue el Marienburg, cerca de Danzig. Los visitantes son guiados en zapatillas de fieltro a través de las áreas residenciales hermosas. En la torre medieval, una sala con murales del pintor de Berlín Hermann Stilke. Se encuentran entre las obras más importantes del romanticismo del Rin. Además de las influencias del sur ( tales como fuentes, Jardín pérgola ) el visitante se encuentra con un interior de colores, por la pasión de coleccionar Federico Guillermo IV. materializado.
Cada año, hasta 250.000 visitantes al castillo. Para el Salón del Jardín de 2011 en Coblenza ( Bundesgartenschau 2011 ), el castillo está siendo restaurado con 16 millones de Euros. El aspecto exterior es más elaborado y los jardines se crearán, de conformidad con los planes antiguos de la horticultura maestro Peter Joseph Lenné.
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillo_de_Stolzenfels
Desde 2002, es un parte de Paisaje cultural del Valle Superior del Medio Rin ( Oberes Mittelrheintal ), también conocido como el Rin romántico desde este año es un Patrimonio de la Humanidad ( UNESCO )
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rin_rom%C3%A1ntico
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Painted house at the corner of Lesser Town Square (Malostranské námestí) and Zámecká street, Lesser Town (Malá Strana), Prague (Praha), Czech Republic.
The Historic Centre of Prague is inscribed in the World Heritage List of the UNESCO.
Citation from whc.unesco.org/en/list/616
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Built between the 11th and 18th centuries, the Old Town, the Lesser Town and the New Town speak of the great architectural and cultural influence enjoyed by this city since the Middle Ages. The many magnificent monuments, such as Hradcani Castle, St Vitus Cathedral, Charles Bridge and numerous churches and palaces, built mostly in the 14th century under the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV.
Prague is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe in terms of its setting on both banks of the Vltava River, its townscape of burger houses and palaces punctuated by towers, and its individual buildings.
The Historic Centre represents a supreme manifestation of Medieval urbanism (the New Town of Emperor Charles IV built as the New Jerusalem). The Prague architectural works of the Gothic Period (14th and 15th centuries), of the High Baroque of the 1st half of the 18th century and of the rising modernism after the year 1900, influenced the development of Central Europe, perhaps even all European architecture. Prague represents one of the most prominent world centres of creative life in the field of urbanism and architecture across generations, human mentality and beliefs.
Prague belongs to the group of historic cities which have preserved the structure of their development until the present times. Within the core of Prague, successive stages of growth and changes have respected the original grand-scale urban structure of the Early Middle Ages. This structure was essentially and greatly enlarged with urban activities in the High Gothic period with more additions during the High Baroque period and in the 19th century. It has been saved from any large-scale urban renewal or massive demolitions and thus preserves its overall configuration, pattern and spatial composition.
In the course of the 1100 years of its existence, Prague’s development can be documented in the architectural expression of many historical periods and their styles. The city is rich in outstanding monuments from all periods of its history. Of particular importance are Prague Castle, the Cathedral of St Vitus, Hradćany Square in front of the Castle, the Valdgtejn Palace on the left bank of the river, the Gothic Charles Bridge, the Romanesque Rotunda of the Holy Rood, the Gothic arcaded houses round the Old Town Square, the High Gothic Minorite Church of St James in the Stark Mĕsto, the late 19th century buildings and town plan of the Nave Mĕsto.
As early as the Middle Ages, Prague became one of the leading cultural centres of Christian Europe. The Prague University, founded in 1348, is one of the earliest in Europe. The milieu of the University in the last quarter of the 14th century and the first years of the 15th century contributed among other things to the formation of ideas of the Hussite Movement which represented in fact the first steps of the European Reformation. As a metropolis of culture, Prague is connected with prominent names in art, science and politics, such as Charles IV, Petr Parléř, Jan Hus, Johannes Kepler, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Kafka, Antonín Dvořák, Albert Einstein, Edvard Beneš (co-founder of the League of Nations) and Václav Havel.
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Die Alhambra ist eine Stadtburg (kasbah) auf dem Sabikah-Hügel in Granada. Sie gilt als das bedeutendste Beispiel des maurischen Stils der islamischen Kunst und ist eine der meistbesuchten Touristenattraktionen Europas
1238 verlegte der erste Nasridenherrscher, Mohammed I. seine Residenz nach Granada und begründete seine eigene Dynastie, die Nasriden, die bis 1492 über das Emirat von Granada herrschte. Mohammad veranlasste den Bau der Zitadelle auf dem Gelände der heutigen Alhambra. Die Befestigung der Alcazaba (Oberstadt) wurde im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert errichtet.
Der letzte maurische Herrscher Mohammad XII. (kapitulierte nach langer Belagerung im November 1491 und übergab die Festung am 2. Januar 1492 an die Katholischen Könige (spanisch Reyes Católicos). Damit fiel die letzte Bastion der Mauren in Spanien.
Die Alhambra ist Weltkulturerbe der UNESCO.
Sala dos Brasões (Blazons Hall, also called Hall of the Stags), Palácio Nacional de Sintra (Sintra National Palast), Sintra, Portugal.
Sintra National Palace belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage Site Cultural Lanscape of Sintra.
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The Sintra National Palace [...] is the best preserved mediaeval Royal Palace in Portugal, having been inhabited more or less continuously at least from the early 15th up to the late 19th century. It is an important tourist attraction and is part of the Cultural landscape of Sintra, designated World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
The history of the Sintra Palace goes back to the times of Islamic domination, when Sintra had two different castles. [...] Its first historical reference dates from the 10th century [...]. In the 12th century, when the village was conquered by King Afonso Henriques, the King took the residence in his possession. The mixture of Gothic, Manueline and Moorish styles in the present palace is, however, mainly the result of building campaigns in the 15th and early 16th centuries.
Nothing built during Moorish rule or during the reign of the first Portuguese kings survives. The earliest surviving part of the palace is the Royal Chapel, possibly built during the reign of King Dinis I in the early 14th century. Much of the palace dates from the times of King John I, who sponsored a major building campaign starting around 1415.
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The other major building campaign that defined the structure and decoration of the Palace was sponsored by King Manuel I between 1497 and 1530, using the wealth engendered by the exploratory expeditions in this Age of Discoveries. The reign of this King saw the development of a transitional Gothic-Renaissance art style, named Manueline, as well as a kind of revival of Islamic artistic influence (Mudéjar) reflected in the choice of polychromed ceramic tiles (azulejos) as a preferred decorative art form.
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In the following centuries the Palace continued to be inhabited by Kings from time to time, gaining new decoration in the form of paintings, tile panels and furniture. A sad story associated with the Palace is that of the mentally unstable King Afonso VI, who was deposed by his brother Pedro II and forced to live without leaving the Palace from 1676 until his death in 1683.
The ensemble suffered damage after the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake but was restored in the "old fashion", according to contemporary accounts.
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During the 19th century, Sintra became again a favourite spot for the Kings and the Palace of Sintra was frequently inhabited. [...] With the foundation of the Republic, in 1910, the Palace became a National Monument. [...] It has been an important historical tourist attraction ever since.
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Sintra [...] is a town within the municipality of Sintra in the Grande Lisboa subregion (Lisbon Region) of Portugal. Owing to its 19th century Romantic architecture and landscapes, becoming a major tourist centre, visited by many day-trippers who travel from the urbanized suburbs and capital of Lisbon.
In addition to the Sintra Mountains and Sintra-Cascais Nature Park, the parishes of the town of Sintra are dotted by royal retreats, estates, castles and buildings from the 8th-9th century, in addition to many buildings completed between the 15th and 19th century, including the Castelo dos Mouros, the Pena National Palace and the Sintra National Palace, resulting in its classification by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1995.
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Natur und Kultur in Mittelportugal (Nature and Culture in Mid-Portugal), Wikinger-Reisen, September 2011
St. Jakobikirche (St.James's Church), seen from Fischergrube, Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
St. Jakobi is a three naved hall church in brick gothic style from around 1300. It is the church of the seamen (with the PAMIR International Seafaring Memorial) and a pilgrimage church (situated at the intersection of three historical pilgrimage routes). St. Jakobi also is famous for its three historical organs. As St. Jakobi is one of the few churches of Lübeck that was not destroyed during the British air raid on Palm Sunday 1942 in Word War II, its organs are the only remaining historical organs in Lübeck.
The old city center of Lübeck is in great parts inscribed in the World Heritage List of the UNESCO. A plan of the inscribed zones can be found here: whc.unesco.org/download.cfm?id_document=102311
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Lübeck – the former capital and Queen City of the Hanseatic League – was founded in the 12th century and prospered until the 16th century as the major trading centre for northern Europe. It has remained a centre for maritime commerce to this day, particularly with the Nordic countries. Despite the damage it suffered during the Second World War, the basic structure of the old city, consisting mainly of 15th- and 16th-century patrician residences, public monuments (the famous Holstentor brick gate), churches and salt storehouses, remains unaltered.
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February 2018.
Mitten im Trierer Stadtzentrum gelegen, steht der Trierer Dom - die ältestes Bischofskirche Deutschlands - heute über einer ehemaligen konstantinischen Palastanlage, die im frühen 4. Jahrhundert durch die größte christliche Kirchenanlage der Antike überbaut wurde. Sie bestand aus vier Basiliken, die durch ein großes Taufbecken miteinander verbunden waren, und bedeckte eine Fläche, die an ihren Grenzen bis zum heutigen Hauptmarkt reichte. Unter dem Gebäude der Dom-Information können noch die Reste der ersten frühchristlichen Versammlungsstätte nördlich der Alpen aus dem späten 3. Jahrhundert und die Reste der ersten Basilika bei einer Führung besichtigt werden.
Der heutige Dom enthält noch den römischen Kernbau, den sogenannten „Quadratbau“ mit Originalmauern bis zu einer Höhe von 25,88 m. Auch das riesige Fragment einer Granitsäule neben dem Eingang zum Dom deutet auf den römischen Ursprung dieses Gotteshauses hin: Der Domstein war ursprünglich eine der tragenden Säulen des Quadratbaus; er wurde im Zuge des Einbaus eines Seitenaltars im 17. Jahrhundert vor dem Dom abgelegt und bildet dort wohl die älteste Rutschbahn Deutschlands und ein heute noch begehrtes Fotomotiv für Gruppen. Der Legende nach soll der Teufel die Säule vor den Dom geworfen haben, als er hörte, man baue nicht die größte Kneipe, sondern ein Gotteshaus.
Nach Teil-Zerstörungen im 5. und 9. Jahrhundert wurde der intakt gebliebene antike Kernbau durch romanische Anbauten erweitert, im 13. Jahrhundert wurde auf den Resten der niedergelegten antiken Südbasilika die Liebfrauenkirche unmittelbar neben dem Dom errichtet – als erste Kirche auf deutschem Boden im spätgotischen Stil. Später wurde ein Westturm des Doms aufgestockt, und im 17. Jahrhundert folgte eine weitere Umgestaltung im barocken Stil: Die Decke der Westapsis wurde reich mit Stuck verziert, und am Scheitel des Ostchors wurde die Heilig-Rock-Kapelle angebaut. Sie birgt die kostbarste Reliquie des Doms, die Tunika Christi, den Heiligen Rock, den der Legende nach die Mutter Konstantins, die Hl. Helena, von einer Pilgerreise mit nach Trier gebracht haben soll. 1512 wurde der Hl. Rock zum ersten Mal öffentlich gezeigt, was den Dom im Laufe der Jahrhunderte zu einer Stätte großer Pilgerströme machte.
Im 20. Jahrhundert wurde der Dom restauriert und der Altarraum umgestaltet. So zeigt die älteste deutsche Bischofskirche mit ihren drei Krypten, dem Kreuzgang und der Domschatzkammer Kunst und Architektur aus einer Zeitspanne von über 1750 Jahren.
Quelle: www.trier-info.de/dom-info
Legend of St. Elisabeth on the Lettner (rood screen) of Heiligen-Geist-Hospital (Hospital of the Holy Spirit) in Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Heiligen-Geist-Hospital is one of the oldest and best preserved civil hospitals of the Middle Age. It is furthermore one of the earliest institutions of social welfare in Europe and belongs to the most significant monumental architecture of the Middle Age.
It was a combination of wealth and piety that brought the mercantile patricians and other wealthy citizens of Lübeck to establish a lot of foundations and institutions for social welfare.
The building of the Heiligen-Geist-Hospital began in 1280, 4 years after the great fire of Lübeck, and was ready in 1286. It has been modified later several times.
The complex consists of a hospital church, an elongate hospital hall (called long house), some auxiliary buildings around a small courtyard and two citizens’ houses.
In the beginning, the patients / residents only had one bed each, and the beds simply were laid out in 4 lines across the long house of the hospital.
Not before 1820 there were built really small cabins of about 4 m² for the residents. These cabins were made out of wood and were open at the top. They are called “Kabäuschen” in German. The last residents moved out of the “Kabäuschen” not before 1970, and they did it only reluctantly.
From 1973 to 1976 a part of the complex was converted into a modern old people’s home for 85 people. The church hall has been restored from 1977-1984. Today, the historic rooms of the church hall and the long house are regularly used for a very famous artisan market in Christmas time, and for other exhibitions and touristic activities.
The church hall of Heiligen-Geist-Hospital is filled with precious artwork. Vaults and walls are covered with frescoes, the windows are made of stained glass. There are two altarpieces, a pulpit, many wooden sculptures of Saints and a richly decorated rood screen, its balustrade showing in 23 painted wooden panels the legend of Saint Elisabeth of Hungary.
Saint Elisabeth of Hungary was born in 1207. She was the daughter of the Hungarian King Andrew II and was married to Ludwig IV of Thuringia at the age of fourteen. Widowed at the age of twenty, she relinquished her wealth to the poor, built hospitals, and became a symbol of Christian charity in Germany and elsewhere after her death in 1231 at the age of twenty-four. She was canonized in 1235 by Pope Gregory IX
The panels of Lübeck hold a special position among all illustrations of the legend of Saint Elisabeth in the German-speaking world.
On the one hand they belong to the earliest works of panel painting, and on the other hand there is no other preserved monument that depicts the life of Saint Elisabeth on such a large scale.
The old city center of Lübeck is in great parts inscribed in the World Heritage List of the UNESCO. A plan of the inscribed zones can be found here: whc.unesco.org/download.cfm?id_document=102311
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Lübeck – the former capital and Queen City of the Hanseatic League – was founded in the 12th century and prospered until the 16th century as the major trading centre for northern Europe. It has remained a centre for maritime commerce to this day, particularly with the Nordic countries. Despite the damage it suffered during the Second World War, the basic structure of the old city, consisting mainly of 15th- and 16th-century patrician residences, public monuments (the famous Holstentor brick gate), churches and salt storehouses, remains unaltered.
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July 2009.
Mermaid with triangle. Ceiling detail of Sala das Sereias (Mermaid room or Siren's room), Palácio Nacional de Sintra (Sintra National Palast), Sintra, Portugal.
Sintra National Palace belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage Site Cultural Lanscape of Sintra.
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The Sintra National Palace [...] is the best preserved mediaeval Royal Palace in Portugal, having been inhabited more or less continuously at least from the early 15th up to the late 19th century. It is an important tourist attraction and is part of the Cultural landscape of Sintra, designated World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
The history of the Sintra Palace goes back to the times of Islamic domination, when Sintra had two different castles. [...] Its first historical reference dates from the 10th century [...]. In the 12th century, when the village was conquered by King Afonso Henriques, the King took the residence in his possession. The mixture of Gothic, Manueline and Moorish styles in the present palace is, however, mainly the result of building campaigns in the 15th and early 16th centuries.
Nothing built during Moorish rule or during the reign of the first Portuguese kings survives. The earliest surviving part of the palace is the Royal Chapel, possibly built during the reign of King Dinis I in the early 14th century. Much of the palace dates from the times of King John I, who sponsored a major building campaign starting around 1415.
[...]
The other major building campaign that defined the structure and decoration of the Palace was sponsored by King Manuel I between 1497 and 1530, using the wealth engendered by the exploratory expeditions in this Age of Discoveries. The reign of this King saw the development of a transitional Gothic-Renaissance art style, named Manueline, as well as a kind of revival of Islamic artistic influence (Mudéjar) reflected in the choice of polychromed ceramic tiles (azulejos) as a preferred decorative art form.
[...]
In the following centuries the Palace continued to be inhabited by Kings from time to time, gaining new decoration in the form of paintings, tile panels and furniture. A sad story associated with the Palace is that of the mentally unstable King Afonso VI, who was deposed by his brother Pedro II and forced to live without leaving the Palace from 1676 until his death in 1683.
The ensemble suffered damage after the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake but was restored in the "old fashion", according to contemporary accounts.
[...]
During the 19th century, Sintra became again a favourite spot for the Kings and the Palace of Sintra was frequently inhabited. [...] With the foundation of the Republic, in 1910, the Palace became a National Monument. [...] It has been an important historical tourist attraction ever since.
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Sintra [...] is a town within the municipality of Sintra in the Grande Lisboa subregion (Lisbon Region) of Portugal. Owing to its 19th century Romantic architecture and landscapes, becoming a major tourist centre, visited by many day-trippers who travel from the urbanized suburbs and capital of Lisbon.
In addition to the Sintra Mountains and Sintra-Cascais Nature Park, the parishes of the town of Sintra are dotted by royal retreats, estates, castles and buildings from the 8th-9th century, in addition to many buildings completed between the 15th and 19th century, including the Castelo dos Mouros, the Pena National Palace and the Sintra National Palace, resulting in its classification by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1995.
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Natur und Kultur in Mittelportugal (Nature and Culture in Mid-Portugal), Wikinger-Reisen, September 2011
Art nouveau window of a house on Wenceslas Square (Czech: Václavské náměstí), New Town (Nové Město), Prague (Praha), Czech Republic.
The Historic Centre of Prague is inscribed in the World Heritage List of the UNESCO.
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Built between the 11th and 18th centuries, the Old Town, the Lesser Town and the New Town speak of the great architectural and cultural influence enjoyed by this city since the Middle Ages. The many magnificent monuments, such as Hradcani Castle, St Vitus Cathedral, Charles Bridge and numerous churches and palaces, built mostly in the 14th century under the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV.
Prague is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe in terms of its setting on both banks of the Vltava River, its townscape of burger houses and palaces punctuated by towers, and its individual buildings.
The Historic Centre represents a supreme manifestation of Medieval urbanism (the New Town of Emperor Charles IV built as the New Jerusalem). The Prague architectural works of the Gothic Period (14th and 15th centuries), of the High Baroque of the 1st half of the 18th century and of the rising modernism after the year 1900, influenced the development of Central Europe, perhaps even all European architecture. Prague represents one of the most prominent world centres of creative life in the field of urbanism and architecture across generations, human mentality and beliefs.
Prague belongs to the group of historic cities which have preserved the structure of their development until the present times. Within the core of Prague, successive stages of growth and changes have respected the original grand-scale urban structure of the Early Middle Ages. This structure was essentially and greatly enlarged with urban activities in the High Gothic period with more additions during the High Baroque period and in the 19th century. It has been saved from any large-scale urban renewal or massive demolitions and thus preserves its overall configuration, pattern and spatial composition.
In the course of the 1100 years of its existence, Prague’s development can be documented in the architectural expression of many historical periods and their styles. The city is rich in outstanding monuments from all periods of its history. Of particular importance are Prague Castle, the Cathedral of St Vitus, Hradćany Square in front of the Castle, the Valdgtejn Palace on the left bank of the river, the Gothic Charles Bridge, the Romanesque Rotunda of the Holy Rood, the Gothic arcaded houses round the Old Town Square, the High Gothic Minorite Church of St James in the Stark Mĕsto, the late 19th century buildings and town plan of the Nave Mĕsto.
As early as the Middle Ages, Prague became one of the leading cultural centres of Christian Europe. The Prague University, founded in 1348, is one of the earliest in Europe. The milieu of the University in the last quarter of the 14th century and the first years of the 15th century contributed among other things to the formation of ideas of the Hussite Movement which represented in fact the first steps of the European Reformation. As a metropolis of culture, Prague is connected with prominent names in art, science and politics, such as Charles IV, Petr Parléř, Jan Hus, Johannes Kepler, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Kafka, Antonín Dvořák, Albert Einstein, Edvard Beneš (co-founder of the League of Nations) and Václav Havel.
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Located in the western half of the Lower Park, the Marly Palace is a charming baroque mansion that was built on the orders of Peter the Great as an intimate retreat in the grounds of the Grand Palace. Peter's inspiration was the royal hunting lodge at Marly Le Roi, just outside Paris. Louis XIV had commissioned his residence there as a private, peaceful alternative to Versailles. Peter visited Marly Le Roi during his visit to France in 1717, and, when creating the "Russian Versailles" at Peterhof, he decided to have his own personal sanctuary built in the grounds.
www.saint-petersburg.com/peterhof/marly-palace.asp
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Widdersphingen der Sphinxallee auf dem Vorhof (Dromos) vor dem 1. Pylon des Karnak-Tempels:Die Sphingen haben einen Körper eines Löwnen, aber Im Vergleich zu den Sphingen am Luxor-Tempel haben die Statue am Karnak-Tempel den Kopf eines Widders und zwischen den Tatzen steht eine kleine Statuze eines Pharaos.
Volcanic rock cone Pináculo at Levada da Serra, island of Madeira, Portugal.
Hiking tour Levada da Serra / Pináculo / Bica da Cana.
This region of Madeira is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Laurisilva of Madeira.
Madeira is a Portuguese island in the Atlantic ocean, approximately 1000 km (620 mi) southwest of Lisbon and 700 km (435 mi) west of the Moroccan coast. Situated in a hot spot area, Madeira is of volcanic origin, formed during several eruptive phases, the last of which ended around 6500 years ago. Madeira is a very mountainous island. With an extent of only 57 km (35 mi) from west to east and 22 km (14 mi) from north to south, and with the highest mountain having an elevation of 1862 m (6109 ft), the terrain of the island is mostly very rocky and steep, except for the high plateau Paul da Serra.
Madeira is also known as the "island of flowers", although most of the popular "typical" Madeiran flowers (like the bird of paradise flower, the hydrangea, the agapanthus and others) are neither endemic nor native. Some of the genuine Madeiran plants are the "Pride of Madeira" (Echium candicans), Canary Islands Juniper (Juniperus cedrus) and the laurel forests of Madeira (the latter one being listed as UNESCO World Heritage).
Madeira is permeated by artificially built water channels called levadas, which distribute the water from the wetter northern half of the island to the agricultural regions of the south. The levadas, mostly built by prisoners or slaves, were cut into the side of the mountains, partly running through tunnels, and enabled for example the cultivation of sugar cane which was the source of the Madeiran wealth during the 15th to 17th century.
Today most of the levadas are still in use, not only for irrigation but also for hydroelectricity. Running across the whole island, they provide a wide network of walking paths, making even extremely remote regions of the island accessible to pedestrians, which is one of the reasons for Madeira's popularity as a hiking paradise.
Madeira hiking holiday July 2013.
Sé do Porto (Porto Cathedral) with pelourinho (pillory), Porto, Portugal.
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The Porto Cathedral (Portuguese: Sé do Porto), located in the historical centre of the city of Porto, Portugal, is one of the city's oldest monuments and one of the most important Romanesque monuments in Portugal
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The cathedral is flanked by two square towers, each supported with two buttresses and crowned with a cupola. The façade lacks decoration and is rather architecturally heterogeneous. It shows a Baroque porch and a beautiful Romanesque rose window under a crenellated arch, giving the impression of a fortified church.
The Romanesque nave is rather narrow and is covered by barrel vaulting. It is flanked by two aisles with a lower vault. The stone roof of the central aisle is supported by flying butresses, making the building one of the first in Portugal to use this architectonic feature.
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The South transept arm gives access to the Gothic cloister, which is decorated with baroque azulejos by Valentim de Almeida (between 1729 and 1731). They depict the life of the Virgin Mary and Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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The historic centre of Porto is inscribed in the World Heritage List of the UNESCO (whc.unesco.org).
Natur und Kultur in Mittelportugal (Nature and Culture in Mid-Portugal), Wikinger-Reisen, September 2011
Der 2563 m hohe Schlern ist ein Berg in den Südtiroler Dolomiten in Italien. Trotz seiner verhältnismäßig geringen Höhe gilt der stockartige Westpfeiler der Dolomiten aufgrund seiner charakteristischen Form als Wahrzeichen Südtirols. Der Berg ist der Namensgeber der umliegenden Gebirgsgruppe, der Schlerngruppe.
This Jugendstil (Art Nouveu) building at Alberta iela in Riga was designed by the German-Baltic architect Mihails Eizenšteins (Mikhail Eisenstein; 1867—1921) and built in 1904. Eizenšteins was the father of the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein.
www.jugendstils.riga.lv/lat/JugendstilsRiga/eizensteins/a...
Baroque main altar of Roman Catholic Kostol Všetkých svätých (Church of All Saints), Tvrdošín, Žilinský kraj (Žilina Region), Slovakia.
The Church of All Saints was built from wood in the 15th century, and was modified in Renaissance style in the 17th century. It is the oldest conserved building in the town of Tvrdošín.
The Baroque main altar of All Saints is from the end of the 17th century. The remainings of the original Gothic altar with St. Peter and St. John the Baptist have been moved to a museum in Budapest, Hungary, after World War I.
Together with 7 other wooden churches, the church of Tvrdošín is inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage list as "Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountain Area".
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The wooden churches of the Slovak part of Carpathian Mountain Area, illustrate the coexistence of different religious faiths within a small territory of central Europe. The series of eight properties includes Roman Catholic, Protestant and Greek Orthodox churches that were built between the 16th and 18th centuries, most of them in quite isolated villages, using wood as the main material and traditional construction techniques. Within the framework of their common features, the churches exhibit some typological variations, in accordance with the correspondent faith, expressed in their plans, interior spaces and external appearance. The churches also bear testimony to the development of major architectural and artistic trends during the period of construction and its interpretation and adaptation to a specific geographical and cultural context. Interiors are decorated with wall and ceiling paintings and works of art that enrich the cultural significance of the properties.
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Slovakia holidays May 2016
Dancing House (Tančící dům) in Rašínovo nábřeží (Rašínovo Embankment), New Town (Nové Město), Prague (Praha), Czech Republic.
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The Dancing House or Dancing Building (Czech: Tančící dům) is the nickname given to the Nationale-Nederlanden building in downtown Prague, Czech Republic at Rašínovo nábřeží 80, 120 00 Praha 2. It was designed by Croatian-Czech architect Vlado Milunić in co-operation with Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry on a vacant riverfront plot (where the previous building had been destroyed during the Bombing of Prague in 1945). The building was designed in 1992 and completed in 1996.
The very non-traditional design was controversial at the time. Czech president Václav Havel, who lived for decades next to the site, had supported it, hoping that the building would become a center of cultural activity.
Originally named Fred and Ginger (after Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers - the house resembles a pair of dancers) the house stands out among the Baroque, Gothic and Art Nouveau buildings for which Prague is famous. Others have nicknamed it "Drunk House".
On the roof is a French restaurant with views of the city. The building's other tenants include several multinational firms.
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The Historic Centre of Prague is inscribed in the World Heritage List of the UNESCO.
Citation from whc.unesco.org/en/list/616
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Built between the 11th and 18th centuries, the Old Town, the Lesser Town and the New Town speak of the great architectural and cultural influence enjoyed by this city since the Middle Ages. The many magnificent monuments, such as Hradcani Castle, St Vitus Cathedral, Charles Bridge and numerous churches and palaces, built mostly in the 14th century under the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV.
Prague is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe in terms of its setting on both banks of the Vltava River, its townscape of burger houses and palaces punctuated by towers, and its individual buildings.
The Historic Centre represents a supreme manifestation of Medieval urbanism (the New Town of Emperor Charles IV built as the New Jerusalem). The Prague architectural works of the Gothic Period (14th and 15th centuries), of the High Baroque of the 1st half of the 18th century and of the rising modernism after the year 1900, influenced the development of Central Europe, perhaps even all European architecture. Prague represents one of the most prominent world centres of creative life in the field of urbanism and architecture across generations, human mentality and beliefs.
Prague belongs to the group of historic cities which have preserved the structure of their development until the present times. Within the core of Prague, successive stages of growth and changes have respected the original grand-scale urban structure of the Early Middle Ages. This structure was essentially and greatly enlarged with urban activities in the High Gothic period with more additions during the High Baroque period and in the 19th century. It has been saved from any large-scale urban renewal or massive demolitions and thus preserves its overall configuration, pattern and spatial composition.
In the course of the 1100 years of its existence, Prague’s development can be documented in the architectural expression of many historical periods and their styles. The city is rich in outstanding monuments from all periods of its history. Of particular importance are Prague Castle, the Cathedral of St Vitus, Hradćany Square in front of the Castle, the Valdgtejn Palace on the left bank of the river, the Gothic Charles Bridge, the Romanesque Rotunda of the Holy Rood, the Gothic arcaded houses round the Old Town Square, the High Gothic Minorite Church of St James in the Stark Mĕsto, the late 19th century buildings and town plan of the Nave Mĕsto.
As early as the Middle Ages, Prague became one of the leading cultural centres of Christian Europe. The Prague University, founded in 1348, is one of the earliest in Europe. The milieu of the University in the last quarter of the 14th century and the first years of the 15th century contributed among other things to the formation of ideas of the Hussite Movement which represented in fact the first steps of the European Reformation. As a metropolis of culture, Prague is connected with prominent names in art, science and politics, such as Charles IV, Petr Parléř, Jan Hus, Johannes Kepler, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Kafka, Antonín Dvořák, Albert Einstein, Edvard Beneš (co-founder of the League of Nations) and Václav Havel.
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Interior of St. Nikolaikirche (St. Nicholas' Church), Hanseatic Town of Stralsund, district of Vorpommern-Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), Germany.
St. Nikolaikirche was built in Northern German Brick Gothic style. It's the oldest of Stralsund's main churches. Being the main church of the local council, St. Nikolaikirche is closely connected to the town hall.
The pillars of the arcades and the whole lower part of the nave of St. Nicholas' Church are colourfully painted in Gothic style. Many of the pillars show paintings of human figures whose heads are sculptured.
In the center of the picture you see Schlüter Altar (partly covered by the chandelier). It is the large two-sided Baroque main altar of St. Nicholas' Church, seperating the choir from the rest of the church (hence sometimes called "Trennaltar" = separating altar). It was built in 1708 by sculptor Thomas Phalert according to a draft of his teacher, the Prussian sculptor and architect Andreas Schlüter.
On both sides of the altar is a central sculpture of the Eye of God, surrounded by a wreath of clouds, filled with angels playing music and praising. The west side of the altar shows a scene of the Last Supper above the Eye of God. On top of the altar is a larger-than-life Crucifixion scene with Mary and John next to the crucified Jesus. They are framed by the two allegoric figures Hope (holding an anchor) and Faith (holding a book).
On the east side of the altar used to be an oak relief showing Christ's agony at Gethsemane, but it got lost during World War II. In September 2012, the gap in the altar was filled with a modern bronze relief by sculptress Doris Waschk-Balz called "Gebet Jesu im Garten Gethsemane" (Jesus' Prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane).
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The town of Stralsund lies in Northeast Germany in the region of Western Pomerania in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
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The town lies on the sound of Strelasund, a strait of the Baltic Sea. Its geographic proximity to the island of Rügen, whose only fixed link to the mainland, the Strelasund Crossing, runs between Stralsund and the village of Altefähr, has given Stralsund the sobriquet "Gateway to the Island of Rügen" (Tor zur Insel Rügen). Stralsund lies close to the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park.
A municipal forest and three municipal ponds (the Knieperteich, Frankenteich and Moorteich) belong to the Stralsund's town borough . The three ponds and the Strelasund lend the Old Town, the original settlement site and historic centre of the town, a protected island location.
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The centre of Stralsund has a wealth of historic buildings. Since 1990, large parts of the historic old town have been renovated with private and public capital, and with the support of foundations. As a result of the contempt for historic buildings in East Germany many houses were threatened by ruin. The Old Town in particular, offers a rich variety of historic buildings, with many former merchants' houses, churches, streets and squares. Of more than 800 listed buildings in Stralsund, more than 500 are designated as individual monuments in the Old Town. In twenty years, from the Wende in 1990 to November 2010, 588 of the more than 1,000 old buildings were completely refurbished, including 363 individual monuments. Because of its historical and architectural significance, in 2002 Stralsund's old town together with the old town of Wismar were added to entitled the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list as the "Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar".
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The medieval towns of Wismar and Stralsund, on the Baltic coast of northern Germany, were major trading centres of the Hanseatic League in the 14th and 15th centuries. In the 17th and 18th centuries they became Swedish administrative and defensive centres for the German territories. They contributed to the development of the characteristic building types and techniques of Brick Gothic in the Baltic region, as exemplified in several important brick cathedrals, the Town Hall of Stralsund, and the series of houses for residential, commercial and crafts use, representing its evolution over several centuries.
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Stralsund short trip October 2012
St. Johanniskloster (Monastery of St. John), Hanseatic Town of Stralsund, district of Vorpommern-Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), Germany.
The Franciscan Monastery of St. John was founded in 1254 and was built directly at the town wall in the north of the Old Town. It is a large complex of buildings grouped around two courtyards, decorated with precious medieval murals and vault paintings inside. The monastery church, however, fell to ruin due to a great fire in 1624 and the World War II air raid of 6 October 1944, with only the walls of the choir remaining.
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The town of Stralsund lies in Northeast Germany in the region of Western Pomerania in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
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The town lies on the sound of Strelasund, a strait of the Baltic Sea. Its geographic proximity to the island of Rügen, whose only fixed link to the mainland, the Strelasund Crossing, runs between Stralsund and the village of Altefähr, has given Stralsund the sobriquet "Gateway to the Island of Rügen" (Tor zur Insel Rügen). Stralsund lies close to the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park.
A municipal forest and three municipal ponds (the Knieperteich, Frankenteich and Moorteich) belong to the Stralsund's town borough . The three ponds and the Strelasund lend the Old Town, the original settlement site and historic centre of the town, a protected island location.
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The centre of Stralsund has a wealth of historic buildings. Since 1990, large parts of the historic old town have been renovated with private and public capital, and with the support of foundations. As a result of the contempt for historic buildings in East Germany many houses were threatened by ruin. The Old Town in particular, offers a rich variety of historic buildings, with many former merchants' houses, churches, streets and squares. Of more than 800 listed buildings in Stralsund, more than 500 are designated as individual monuments in the Old Town. In twenty years, from the Wende in 1990 to November 2010, 588 of the more than 1,000 old buildings were completely refurbished, including 363 individual monuments. Because of its historical and architectural significance, in 2002 Stralsund's old town together with the old town of Wismar were added to entitled the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list as the "Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar".
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The medieval towns of Wismar and Stralsund, on the Baltic coast of northern Germany, were major trading centres of the Hanseatic League in the 14th and 15th centuries. In the 17th and 18th centuries they became Swedish administrative and defensive centres for the German territories. They contributed to the development of the characteristic building types and techniques of Brick Gothic in the Baltic region, as exemplified in several important brick cathedrals, the Town Hall of Stralsund, and the series of houses for residential, commercial and crafts use, representing its evolution over several centuries.
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Stralsund short trip October 2012
Under the roof of Cologne's cathedral you will find many installations which are obviously from the 19th century. Take this beautiful spiral staircase - it definitely is from the heyday of cast iron engineering! This is no surprise because although the cathedral was conceived in the 13th century (construction began in 1348) it remained incomplete until 1880. So when they finished the construction the architects and engineers applied much state-of-the-art technology, particularly when the large roof truss was designed.
We had the pleasure to be guided over the roof and through the attic storey of the wonderful cathedral. The site is a place of worship for ca. 1700 years now because the Romans built the first temple in this very place.
Two tired men sitting on a bench at Uhelný trh (Coal market), Old Town (Staré Město), Prague (Praha), Czech Republic.
The Historic Centre of Prague is inscribed in the World Heritage List of the UNESCO.
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Built between the 11th and 18th centuries, the Old Town, the Lesser Town and the New Town speak of the great architectural and cultural influence enjoyed by this city since the Middle Ages. The many magnificent monuments, such as Hradcani Castle, St Vitus Cathedral, Charles Bridge and numerous churches and palaces, built mostly in the 14th century under the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV.
Prague is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe in terms of its setting on both banks of the Vltava River, its townscape of burger houses and palaces punctuated by towers, and its individual buildings.
The Historic Centre represents a supreme manifestation of Medieval urbanism (the New Town of Emperor Charles IV built as the New Jerusalem). The Prague architectural works of the Gothic Period (14th and 15th centuries), of the High Baroque of the 1st half of the 18th century and of the rising modernism after the year 1900, influenced the development of Central Europe, perhaps even all European architecture. Prague represents one of the most prominent world centres of creative life in the field of urbanism and architecture across generations, human mentality and beliefs.
Prague belongs to the group of historic cities which have preserved the structure of their development until the present times. Within the core of Prague, successive stages of growth and changes have respected the original grand-scale urban structure of the Early Middle Ages. This structure was essentially and greatly enlarged with urban activities in the High Gothic period with more additions during the High Baroque period and in the 19th century. It has been saved from any large-scale urban renewal or massive demolitions and thus preserves its overall configuration, pattern and spatial composition.
In the course of the 1100 years of its existence, Prague’s development can be documented in the architectural expression of many historical periods and their styles. The city is rich in outstanding monuments from all periods of its history. Of particular importance are Prague Castle, the Cathedral of St Vitus, Hradćany Square in front of the Castle, the Valdgtejn Palace on the left bank of the river, the Gothic Charles Bridge, the Romanesque Rotunda of the Holy Rood, the Gothic arcaded houses round the Old Town Square, the High Gothic Minorite Church of St James in the Stark Mĕsto, the late 19th century buildings and town plan of the Nave Mĕsto.
As early as the Middle Ages, Prague became one of the leading cultural centres of Christian Europe. The Prague University, founded in 1348, is one of the earliest in Europe. The milieu of the University in the last quarter of the 14th century and the first years of the 15th century contributed among other things to the formation of ideas of the Hussite Movement which represented in fact the first steps of the European Reformation. As a metropolis of culture, Prague is connected with prominent names in art, science and politics, such as Charles IV, Petr Parléř, Jan Hus, Johannes Kepler, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Kafka, Antonín Dvořák, Albert Einstein, Edvard Beneš (co-founder of the League of Nations) and Václav Havel.
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Choir of the Church of Santa Maria, Mosteiro dos Jerónimos (Hieronymites Monastery), Belém, Lisboa (Lisbon), Portugal.
The Hieronymites Monastery (official name: Mosteiro da Santa Maria de Belém), located near the shore of Rio Tejo (Tagus river), is one of the most prominent monuments of the Manueline style architecture. Along with the predominant Manueline style, there are also elements of the Spanish Plateresque style, and of Renaissance style.
The monastery was built by order of Manuel I. shortly after Vasco da Gama had returned from his first journey to India. The building was financed with the money now rolling in from the overseas trade. Work began in 1502 and ended in 1544 (except for some extensions that were added later).
Up to 1834, the monastery gave home to the order of the Hieronymites (that's where it's got its name from). The building survived the great earthquake of 1755 without larger damage, but was ravaged by Napoleon's troops in the beginning of the 19th century.
In 1983, Mosteiro dos Jerónimos was - together with the nearby Torre de Belém (Bélem tower) - inscribed on the World Heritage List of the UNESCO.
On December 13, 2007, the Treaty of Lisbon was signed at the monastery, laying down the basis for the reform of the European Union.
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Diogo Boitac laid the foundations for this three-aisled church with five bays under a single vault, a clearly marked but only slightly projecting a transept and a raised choir. The hall church layout is composed of aisles and nave that are of equal height. Boitac built the walls of the church as far as the cornices and then started with the construction of the adjoining monastery.
Juan de Castilho, a Spanish architect and sculptor, continued the construction in 1517. He completed the retaining walls and the unique single-span ribbed vault, a combination of stellar vaulting and tracery vaults spanning the 19 metre-wide church. Each set of ribs in the vaulting is secured by bosses. The bold design (1522) of the transversal vault of the transept lacks any piers or columns, while Boitac had originally planned three bays in the transept. The transept's unsupported vault gives the visitor the impression that it floats in the air.
Castilho also decorated the six 25 metre-high, slender, articulated, octagonal columns with refined grotesque or floral elements typical of the Renaissance style. The construction of this late-Gothic hall is aesthetically and architecturally a masterwork: it augments the spatial effect of this vast building. The northern column closest to the transept there is a medallion that may have been intentionally included as a portrait of Boitac or Juan de Castilho.
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Several elements appear regularly in these intricately carved stoneworks:
- elements used on ships: the armillary sphere (a navigational instrument and the personal emblem of Manuel I and also symbol of the cosmos), spheres, anchors, anchor chains, ropes and cables.
- elements from the sea, such as shells, pearls and strings of seaweed.
- botanical motifs such as laurel branches, oak leaves, acorns, poppy capsules, corncobs, thistles.
- symbols of Christianity such as the cross of the Order of Christ (former Templar knights), the military order that played a prominent role and helped finance the first voyages of discovery. The cross of this order decorated the sails of the Portuguese ships.
- elements from newly discovered lands (such as the tracery in the Claustro Real in the Monastery of Batalha, suggesting Islamic filigree work, influenced by buildings in India)
- columns carved like twisted strands of rope
- semicircular arches (instead of Gothic pointed arches) of doors and windows, sometimes consisting of three or more convex curves
- multiple pillars
- eight-sided capitals
- lack of symmetry
- conical pinnacles
- bevelled crenellations
- ornate portals with niches or canopies.
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Natur und Kultur in Mittelportugal (Nature and Culture in Mid-Portugal), Wikinger-Reisen, September 2011
Cloister of Mosteiro dos Jerónimos (Hieronymites Monastery), Belém, Lisboa (Lisbon), Portugal.
The Hieronymites Monastery (official name: Mosteiro da Santa Maria de Belém), located near the shore of Rio Tejo (Tagus river), is one of the most prominent monuments of the Manueline style architecture. Along with the predominant Manueline style, there are also elements of the Spanish Plateresque style, and of Renaissance style.
The monastery was built by order of Manuel I. shortly after Vasco da Gama had returned from his first journey to India. The building was financed with the money now rolling in from the overseas trade. Work began in 1502 and ended in 1544 (except for some extensions that were added later).
Up to 1834, the monastery gave home to the order of the Hieronymites (that's where it's got its name from). The building survived the great earthquake of 1755 without larger damage, but was ravaged by Napoleon's troops in the beginning of the 19th century.
In 1983, Mosteiro dos Jerónimos was - together with the nearby Torre de Belém (Bélem tower) - inscribed on the World Heritage List of the UNESCO.
On December 13, 2007, the Treaty of Lisbon was signed at the monastery, laying down the basis for the reform of the European Union.
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Work on the vast square cloister (55 x 55 m) of the monastery was begun by Boitac. He built the groin vaults with wide arches and windows with tracery resting on delicate mullions. Juan de Castilho finished the construction by giving the lower storey a classical overlay and building a more recessed upper-storey. The construction of such a cloister was a novelty at the time. Castilho changed the original round columns of Boitac into rectangular ones, and embellished it with Plateresque-style ornamentation. Each wing consists of six bays with tracery vaults. The four inner bays rest on massive buttresses, forming broad arcades. The corner bays are linked by a diagonal arched construction and show the richly decorated corner pillars. The cloister had a religious function as well as a representative function by its decorative ornamentation and the dynastic symbolic motives, such as the armillarium, coat-of-arms, and the cross from the Order of Christ, showing the growing world power of Portugal.
The inside walls of the cloister have a wealth of Manueline motives with nautical elements, in addition to European, Moorish and Eastern motifs. The round arches and the horizontal structure are clearly in line with the Renaissance style, while at the same time there is also a relationship with Spanish architecture. The decorations on the outer walls of the inner courtyard were made in Plateresco style by Castilho: the arcades include traceried arches that give the construction a filigree aspect.
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Several elements appear regularly in these intricately carved stoneworks:
- elements used on ships: the armillary sphere (a navigational instrument and the personal emblem of Manuel I and also symbol of the cosmos), spheres, anchors, anchor chains, ropes and cables.
- elements from the sea, such as shells, pearls and strings of seaweed.
- botanical motifs such as laurel branches, oak leaves, acorns, poppy capsules, corncobs, thistles.
- symbols of Christianity such as the cross of the Order of Christ (former Templar knights), the military order that played a prominent role and helped finance the first voyages of discovery. The cross of this order decorated the sails of the Portuguese ships.
- elements from newly discovered lands (such as the tracery in the Claustro Real in the Monastery of Batalha, suggesting Islamic filigree work, influenced by buildings in India)
- columns carved like twisted strands of rope
- semicircular arches (instead of Gothic pointed arches) of doors and windows, sometimes consisting of three or more convex curves
- multiple pillars
- eight-sided capitals
- lack of symmetry
- conical pinnacles
- bevelled crenellations
- ornate portals with niches or canopies.
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Natur und Kultur in Mittelportugal (Nature and Culture in Mid-Portugal), Wikinger-Reisen, September 2011
The Melngalvju nams (House of Blackheads / Schwarzhäupterhaus) is the house of the brotherhood of unmarried German merchants. Their guild house was constructed in the early 14th century. It was severely damaged by German artillery in 1941 and the remains of the building were demolished by the Soviets in 1948. The building was reconstructed 1995-1999.
Angel with portative organ, or organetto, on the 15th century Choir Screen of St. Nikolaikirche (St. Nicholas' Church), Hanseatic Town of Stralsund, district of Vorpommern-Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), Germany.
St. Nikolaikirche was built in Northern German Brick Gothic style. It's the oldest of Stralsund's main churches. Being the main church of the local council, St. Nikolaikirche is closely connected to the town hall.
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The town of Stralsund lies in Northeast Germany in the region of Western Pomerania in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
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The town lies on the sound of Strelasund, a strait of the Baltic Sea. Its geographic proximity to the island of Rügen, whose only fixed link to the mainland, the Strelasund Crossing, runs between Stralsund and the village of Altefähr, has given Stralsund the sobriquet "Gateway to the Island of Rügen" (Tor zur Insel Rügen). Stralsund lies close to the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park.
A municipal forest and three municipal ponds (the Knieperteich, Frankenteich and Moorteich) belong to the Stralsund's town borough . The three ponds and the Strelasund lend the Old Town, the original settlement site and historic centre of the town, a protected island location.
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The centre of Stralsund has a wealth of historic buildings. Since 1990, large parts of the historic old town have been renovated with private and public capital, and with the support of foundations. As a result of the contempt for historic buildings in East Germany many houses were threatened by ruin. The Old Town in particular, offers a rich variety of historic buildings, with many former merchants' houses, churches, streets and squares. Of more than 800 listed buildings in Stralsund, more than 500 are designated as individual monuments in the Old Town. In twenty years, from the Wende in 1990 to November 2010, 588 of the more than 1,000 old buildings were completely refurbished, including 363 individual monuments. Because of its historical and architectural significance, in 2002 Stralsund's old town together with the old town of Wismar were added to entitled the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list as the "Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar".
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The medieval towns of Wismar and Stralsund, on the Baltic coast of northern Germany, were major trading centres of the Hanseatic League in the 14th and 15th centuries. In the 17th and 18th centuries they became Swedish administrative and defensive centres for the German territories. They contributed to the development of the characteristic building types and techniques of Brick Gothic in the Baltic region, as exemplified in several important brick cathedrals, the Town Hall of Stralsund, and the series of houses for residential, commercial and crafts use, representing its evolution over several centuries.
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Stralsund short trip October 2012
The Harley Dome Cologne event was a friendly, professionally organized gathering of around 3,000 Harley-Davidson bikers. It took place at the scenic "Tanzbrunnen" open-air event area and boasted many bands of national and international reputation. Excellent custom bikes were there to be admired - in the exhibition area as well as among the ones brought along by the participants. A must-see for all of you next year. The plan is to organize this event for the next consecutive five years.
Cologne Cathedral / Kölner Dom
UNESCO World Heritage site since 1996
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A visit to Cologne and its outstanding architectural points of interest.
Cologne Cathedral ("Kölner Dom" or simply "Dom") is one of the largest churches on the planet. Construction started in 1248 on top of the remains of the former cathedral and several other buildings. The place had been occupied by Christian churches from the 4th century onwards. It took until 1880 to finish it completely. However, continuous repairs and replacements of fragile parts are necessary to keep it intact.
It stands 157.22m (515.81ft) tall
Cologne Cathedral was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996 (ref. 0292).
Altarpiece in Catedral de Santa María de la Sede (Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See), better known as Catedral de Sevilla (Seville Cathedral), Sevilla (Seville), Province of Sevilla (Seville), Andalusia, Spain.
Seville Cathedral is the largest Gothic cathedral and the third largest church in the world.
Together with the Alcázar and the General Archive of the Indies of Seville it is inscribed in the World Heritage List of the UNESCO.
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Together the Cathedral, Alcázar and Archivo de Indias as a series, form a remarkable monumental complex in the heart of Seville. They perfectly epitomize the Spanish "Golden Age", incorporating vestiges of Islamic culture, centuries of ecclesiastical power, royal sovereignty and the trading power that Spain acquired through its colonies in the New World.
Founded in 1403 on the site of a former mosque, the Cathedral, built in Gothic and Renaissance style, covers seven centuries of history. With its five naves it is the largest Gothic building in Europe. Its bell tower, the Giralda, was the former minaret of the mosque, a masterpiece of Almohad architecture and now is important example of the cultural syncretism thanks to the top section of the tower, designed in the Renaissance period by Hernán Ruiz. Its "chapter house" is the first known example of the use of the elliptical floor plan in the western world. Ever since its creation, the Cathedral has continued to be used for religious purposes.
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Seville ... is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville, Spain. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of 7 metres (23 ft) above sea level. The inhabitants of the city are known as sevillanos (feminine form: sevillanas) or hispalenses, following the Roman name of the city, Hispalis.
Seville is the fourth largest city of Spain with a municipal population of about 703,000 as of 2011, and a metropolitan population (including satellite towns) of about 1.2 million, making it the 31st most populous municipality in the European Union. Its Old Town is one of the three largest in Europe along with Venice and Genoa (covering almost four square kilometers), which includes three UNESCO World Heritage Sites (the Alcázar palace complex, the Cathedral and the General Archive of the Indies). The Seville harbor, located about 80 km from the Atlantic Ocean, is the only river port in Spain.
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Andalusia holiday April 2012
Inside the spire of Gothic Kölner Dom (Cologne Cathedral), official name Hohe Domkirche St. Peter und Maria (High Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Mary), Köln (Cologne), Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia), Germany.
Cologne Cathedral is inscribed in the World Heritage List of the UNESCO.
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Begun in 1248, the construction of this Gothic masterpiece took place in several stages and was not completed until 1880. Over seven centuries, successive builders were inspired by the same faith and a spirit of absolute fidelity to the original plans. Apart from its exceptional intrinsic value and the artistic masterpieces it contains, Cologne Cathedral testifies to the enduring strength of European Christianity.
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Cologne Cathedral is a High Gothic five-aisled basilica, with a projecting transept and a two-tower facade. The construction is totally unified. The western section, begun in 1330, changes in style, but this is not perceptible in the overall building. The 19th-century work followed the medieval forms and techniques faithfully. The original liturgical appointments of the choir are still extant to a considerable degree. These include the high altar on an enormous monolithic slab of black marble, the carved-oak choir stalls (1308-11), the painted choir screens (1332-40), the 14 statues on the pillars in the choir (1270-90), and the stained-glass windows, the largest extant cycle of 14th-century windows in Europe. There is an outstanding series of tombs of 12 archbishops between 976 and 1612.
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During World War II the cathedral suffered tremendous damage during air-raids: no fewer than fourteen heavy bombs reduced it to a pitiful state. Restoration and reconstruction work rendered the chevet usable in time for the centenary celebrations in 1948, but the remainder of the building was not restored fully until1956.
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September 2007
Dance of Death window in the Totentanzkapelle (Dance of Death Chapel) inside St. Marienkirche" (St. Mary's Church), Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
The Dance of Death Chapel got its name from the famous "Lübecker Totentanz" (Lübeck Dance of Death) by German painter and sculptor Bernt Notke from 1463 (resp. later its copy from 1701) which was displayed there. This famous piece of art was irrecoverably destroyed during the British air raid on Palm Sunday 1942 in World War II. After the reconstruction of St. Mary's Church, the Dance of Death Chapel got two stained glass windows, designed by Alfred Mahlau, taking motifs and aspects of the burnt "Totentanz". The base of the windows show Lübeck in flames.
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The Lutheran Marienkirche (St. Mary's church) in Lübeck (German: Lübecker Marienkirche or officially St. Marien zu Lübeck: St. Mary's of Lübeck) was constructed between 1250 and 1350. For many years it has been a symbol of the power and prosperity of the old Hanseatic city, and as Germany's third largest church it remains the tallest building of the old part of Lübeck. It is larger than Lübeck Cathedral. Along with the city, the church has been listed by UNESCO as of cultural significance.
It is a model for the brick Gothic style of northern Germany, reflected in approximately 70 churches in the Baltic Area. In Lübeck, the high-rising Gothic style of France was adapted to north German brick. At 38.5 meters (125 ft) the church has the highest brick vault in the world. Taking the weather vanes into account, the towers are 124.95 meters (406 ft) and 124.75 meters (405.5 ft) high.
St. Mary's is located in the merchant's borough, which stretches from the docks of the River Trave all the way up to the church itself. It is the main church of the local council and the people of Lübeck, and was erected near the market and town hall. (...)
On the night of Palm Sunday from 28 to 29 March 1942, the church was almost completely burnt out during an Allied bombing raid along with about a fifth of Lübeck city centre, including the Lübeck Cathedral and St. Peter's Church. (...) Reconstruction began in 1947, and, in 12 years, the majority was complete.
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The old city center of Lübeck is in great parts inscribed in the World Heritage List of the UNESCO. A plan of the inscribed zones can be found here: whc.unesco.org/download.cfm?id_document=102311
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Lübeck – the former capital and Queen City of the Hanseatic League – was founded in the 12th century and prospered until the 16th century as the major trading centre for northern Europe. It has remained a centre for maritime commerce to this day, particularly with the Nordic countries. Despite the damage it suffered during the Second World War, the basic structure of the old city, consisting mainly of 15th- and 16th-century patrician residences, public monuments (the famous Holstentor brick gate), churches and salt storehouses, remains unaltered.
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Sightseeing tour with Seppo and Merja on 15 September 2013.
St. Benediki is a hall church that was dedicated in 1173. While there are some remnants of the Romanesque structure, most of the church presents itself in a Gothic style. The late Gothic apse dates to the 15th century.
The main altar was designed by Leonhard Christoph Sturm in a Baroque style and created by the Brunswick sculptor Joachim Querfurt in 1700. It depicts scenes from the Easter holiday.
The wooden pulpit was created by the Quedlinburg sculptor Georg Steyger in 1595 in a late Renaissance style. It received its marble-like finish during the 1885 restoration.