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Una coppia di volpoche sta per posarsi sulle acque salmastre di una valle da pesca, nella Laguna di Venezia. Tendendo le ali esse stanno rallentando il volo e abbassandosi fino a sfiorare l'acqua. Infine useranno le zampe palmate per scivolare sulla superficie, come fanno solitamente gli anatidi. Un atto usuale, ma sempre e comunque di grande, stupefacente eleganza ..... ..
Zamek Leśna Skała w Szczytnej – BRAMA ZAMKOWA
Zamek, zbudowany na wzór średniowiecznego zamku obronnego reprezentuje styl neogotycki. Powstał w latach 1831–1837
Castle called Forest Rock in Szczytna - CASTLE GATE
The castle, built on the model of a medieval fortified castle, represents the neo-Gothic style. It was established in the years 1831–1837
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We h ad an incredible pelagic out of Tofino yesterday. We had 1 endangered Short-tailed Albatross and 15 near-threatened Laysan Albatrosses and several Black-footed Albatrosses so we had the trifecta! It was incredible because Short-tailed are extremely rare and last year at this time we had 3 Short-tailed s on a similar trip last march and we never thought it would happen again! I was really happy about seeing the Laysan Albatrosses since I have been trying for several years to see one in BC waters. The Laysan was BC Bird #427 for me. We ended up seeing an incredible number of them 15 to be exact! At one point we had 9 sitting all together. I went from seeing none for several years to seeing a flock! totally crazy! We lucked out by finding a few fishing boats but the best part was three young birders were on board and for 2 of them it was their first pelagic and they were lucky to hit the jackpot!. Their smiles and excitement were the best part of the trip for me.
We also had some incredible marine mammals this trip : 2 Humpback Whales, 1 Sea Otter, 4 Northern Fur Seals and a rare first for most on board which were 30 Risso's Dolphins and 4 Northern Right Whale Dolphins.
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Foro Romano - Roma - Italia / Roman Forum - Rome - Italy
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Foro Romano
El Foro Romano (en latín, Forum Romanum, aunque los romanos se referían a él comúnmente como Forum Magnum o simplemente Forum) era el foro de la ciudad de Roma, es decir, la zona central —semejante a las plazas centrales en las ciudades actuales— donde se encuentran las instituciones de gobierno, de mercado y religiosas. Al igual que hoy en día, era donde tenían lugar el comercio, los negocios, la prostitución, la religión y la administración de justicia. En él se situaba el hogar comunal.
Series de restos de pavimento muestran que sedimentos erosionados desde las colinas circundantes ya estaban elevando el nivel del foro en la primera época de la República. Originalmente había sido un terreno pantanoso, que fue drenado por los Tarquinios mediante la Cloaca Máxima. Su pavimento de travertino definitivo, que aún puede verse, data del reinado de César Augusto.
Actualmente es famoso por sus restos, que muestran elocuentemente el uso de los espacios urbanos durante el Imperio romano. El Foro Romano incluye los siguientes monumentos, edificios y demás ruinas antiguas importantes:
Templo de Cástor y Pólux
Templo de Rómulo
Templo de Saturno
Templo de Vesta
Casa de las Vestales
Templo de Venus y Roma
Templo de César
Basílica Emilia
Basílica Julia
Arco de Septimio Severo
Arco de Tito
Rostra (plural de rostrum), la tribuna desde donde los políticos daban sus discursos a los ciudadanos romanos.
Curia Julia, sede del Senado.
Basílica de Majencio y Constantino
Tabulario
Templo de Antonino y Faustina
Regia
Templo de Vespasiano y Tito
Templo de la Concordia
Templo de Jano
Un camino procesional, la Vía Sacra, cruza el Foro Romano conectándolo con el Coliseo. Al final del Imperio perdió su uso cotidiano quedando como lugar sagrado.
El último monumento construido en el Foro fue la Columna de Focas. Durante la Edad Media, aunque la memoria del Foro Romano persistió, los edificios fueron en su mayor parte enterrados bajo escombros y su localización, la zona entre el monte Capitolino y el Coliseo, fue designada Campo Vaccinio o ‘campo bovino’. El regreso del papa Urbano V desde Aviñón en 1367 despertó un creciente interés por los monumentos antiguos, en parte por su lección moral y en parte como cantera para construir nuevos edificios. Se extrajo gran cantidad de mármol para construcciones papales (en el Vaticano principalmente) y para cocer en hornos creados en el mismo foro para hacer cal. Miguel Ángel expresó en muchas ocasiones su oposición a la destrucción de los restos. Artistas de finales del siglo XV dibujaron las ruinas del Foro, los anticuarios copiaron inscripciones desde el siglo XVI y se comenzó una excavación profesional a finales del siglo XVIII. Un cardenal tomó medidas para drenarlo de nuevo y construyó el barrio Alessadrine sobre él. No obstante, la excavación de Carlo Fea, quien empezó a retirar los escombros del Arco de Septimio Severo en 1803, y los arqueólogos del régimen napoleónico marcaron el comienzo de la limpieza del Foro, que no fue totalmente excavado hasta principios del siglo XX.
En su estado actual, se muestran juntos restos de varios siglos, debido a la práctica romana de construir sobre ruinas más antiguas.
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The Roman Forum
The Roman Forum, also known by its Latin name Forum Romanum (Italian: Foro Romano), is a rectangular forum (plaza) surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, or simply the Forum.
For centuries the Forum was the center of day-to-day life in Rome: the site of triumphal processions and elections; the venue for public speeches, criminal trials, and gladiatorial matches; and the nucleus of commercial affairs. Here statues and monuments commemorated the city's great men. The teeming heart of ancient Rome, it has been called the most celebrated meeting place in the world, and in all history.Located in the small valley between the Palatine and Capitoline Hills, the Forum today is a sprawling ruin of architectural fragments and intermittent archaeological excavations attracting 4.5 million or more sightseers yearly.
Many of the oldest and most important structures of the ancient city were located on or near the Forum. The Roman Kingdom's earliest shrines and temples were located on the southeastern edge. These included the ancient former royal residence, the Regia (8th century BC), and the Temple of Vesta (7th century BC), as well as the surrounding complex of the Vestal Virgins, all of which were rebuilt after the rise of imperial Rome.
Other archaic shrines to the northwest, such as the Umbilicus Urbis and the Vulcanal (Shrine of Vulcan), developed into the Republic's formal Comitium (assembly area). This is where the Senate—as well as Republican government itself—began. The Senate House, government offices, tribunals, temples, memorials and statues gradually cluttered the area.
Over time the archaic Comitium was replaced by the larger adjacent Forum and the focus of judicial activity moved to the new Basilica Aemilia (179 BC). Some 130 years later, Julius Caesar built the Basilica Julia, along with the new Curia Julia, refocusing both the judicial offices and the Senate itself. This new Forum, in what proved to be its final form, then served as a revitalized city square where the people of Rome could gather for commercial, political, judicial and religious pursuits in ever greater numbers.
Eventually much economic and judicial business would transfer away from the Forum Romanum to the larger and more extravagant structures (Trajan's Forum and the Basilica Ulpia) to the north. The reign of Constantine the Great saw the construction of the last major expansion of the Forum complex—the Basilica of Maxentius (312 AD). This returned the political center to the Forum until the fall of the Western Roman Empire almost two centuries later.
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Not sure if I will be able to get them into the groups this week but will try but leaving for the week so enjoy, hopefully see you back Saturday. 😊
Piling on the pylons with the wind farm showing faintly in the distance through the sea mist.
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L'autunno regala giornate da gustare fino all'ultimo raggio di luce. Mi piace trascorrere questo tempo in sella alla bici su strade o sentieri di luoghi poco frequentati e per questo più belli da vivere. Ho buoni amici che mi portano in posti bellissimi, studiano percorsi più o meno selvatici e mi chiamano per pedalare insieme. Io contraccambio e barattiamo volentieri itinerari e buona compagnia. Oggi ho voluto portare la fotocamera, caricandomi di un certo peso per 80 km, e 1500 m di dislivello in salita. Una faticata, ma posso mostrarvi Renzo e Umberto che pedalano davanti a me e scappano via veloci prima che riesca ad estrarre dalla borsa sul manubrio la mia vecchia reflex e scattare.
Bellissimi castagni plurisecolari ci hanno fatto da custodi per gran parte del percorso.
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