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The Trevi Fountain is the largest — standing 25.9 meters (85 feet) high and 19.8 meters (65 feet) wide — and most ambitious of the Baroque fountains of Rome. It is located in the rione of Trevi.The fountain at the juncture of three roads (tre vie) marks the terminal point of the Aqua Virgo (Italian: Acqua Vergine), one of the ancient aqueducts that supplied water to Rome. In 19 BC, supposedly with the help of a virgin, Roman technicians located a source of pure water some 13 km (8 miles) from the city. (This scene is presented on the present fountain's facade). However, the eventual indirect route of the aqueduct made its length some 22 km (14 miles). This Aqua Virgo led the water into the Baths of Agrippa. It served Rome for more than four hundred years. The "coup de grace" for the urban life of late classical Rome came when the Goth besiegers broke the aqueducts. Medieval Romans were reduced to drawing water from polluted wells and the Tiber River, which was also used as a sewer
La Fontana di Trevi è la più grande ed una fra le più note Fontane di Roma, ed è considerata all'unanimità una delle più celebri fontane del mondo.
La settecentesca fontana, progettata da Nicolò Salvi, è un connubio di classicismo e barocco adagiato su un lato di Palazzo Poli.
Il tema della scultura è il mare. La scenografia è dominata da un cocchio, a forma di conchiglia sul quale è adagiata la grande statua di Oceano di Pietro Bracci, affiancata nelle nicchie laterali dalle statue della Salubrità e dell'Abbondanza, opera di Filippo della Valle; il cocchio è trainato da cavallucci marini, a loro volta preceduti da tritoni. Nella fontana, scultura e architettura barocca si compenetrano e si fondono perfettamente, in un suggestivo spettacolo acquatico.
Una celebre tradizione vuole che porti fortuna lanciare una moneta nella fontana volgendole le spalle, perché in questo modo si tornerà sicuramente nella città . Le monete, raccolte quotidianamente, vengono destinate dal comune di Roma ad opere caritatevoli.
Fonte : Wikipedia
Whitewashed brick building in neo-classical style, dating mainly from the 19 th century.
The castle was owned by numerous barons. The front of the castle was build around 1820.
Over time, the castle has undergone numerous restorations and transformations.
Today is a set of whimsical architecture, which gives it an original and even a little disturbing in foggy weather stamp ...
It is possible that the castle was built on the site of an ancient Roman villa.
Visited this location in December 2014
A shot of the most popular berry. The main purpose of fruit in culture is it's consumption, but the details of this fruit deserve further attention...
Colors Available:
Black
Lait Almond
Materials:
Outer:
Wool 76%
Angola 12%
Nylon 12%
Lining
Particle twill
100% polyester
Blade velveteen
Size:
Length 57.5cm (BNP ~)
Shoulder width 36.5cm
Sleeve 62cm
Bust 97cm
Waist 81cm
Hem around 121cm (closed pleats)
※ detachable tabs available before.
As for shoulder length at nude size 37cm. We have supposed.
Memo:
※Both the blade of the same type color as the frontal land and the metal button of the antique gold are attached.
Attic Red Figure Amphora by the Berlin painter with a Satyr playing the lyre on one side and a satyr and Hermes supporting the drunken satyr on the other, with fawn. Meander and Grape vine decorative bands. Greek, ceramic. Classical, 495 BC from Vulci. The Classical collections are now brought together in the Altes Mueum building. Berlin, Germany. Copyright 2014, James A. Glazier.
Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth.
Galleries Contain.
Prehistoric pottery, figurines, and tools.
Geometric, Archaic, and Classical periods
Roman statues of rulers, floor mosaics, wall paintings
Roman and Byzantine pottery, also weapons.
Votives from the Asklepieion at Ancient Corinth.
Unfortunately, you are not allowed to take a picture of the Twin Kouroi, one of the top works.
(but you can see it on Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeological_Museum_of_Ancient_Co...)
Huddersfield Railway Station is widely held to be one of the finest classical stations in Britain and stands as a dominant reminder of the prosperity of the city's former textile industry.
Constructed by two rival rail companies in 1850, the station contained separate ticket offices at either end of the building, with first and second class restrooms in between.
Designed by the architect James Pigott Pritchett and built by the firm of Joseph Kaye in 1846–50 using the neo-classical style, the station is well known in architectural circles for its classical style facade with a portico of the Corinthian order, consisting of six columns in width and two in depth, which dominates St George's Square, where it is located, facing out towards Lion Buildings. It is a grade I listed building. The imposing station frontage was described by John Betjeman as the most splendid in England and by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as 'one of the best early railway stations in England'.
Within the station frontage, to each side of the main entrance, there are two public houses, The Head Of Steam and The King's Head (previously known as The Station Tavern)
A bronze statue of the late former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Wilson stands in St George's Square in front of the station.
First pullip. Expect lots of Alice pictures! She quickly became one if my favorite dolls, and one of my favorite dolls to photograph. I got her from PullipStyle.com with a dent box, as I didn't care for the box, only Alice and her accessories, and I was planning to take her out of packaging from the start so I saved a couple of dollars there(even though it took me 5 minutes to find such dent that I hardly think of it as one. Such a non-problem being taken into consideration by the retailer really shows the high quality of service from PullipStyle).
Over-all review of Alice: She's mine hands off! Kidding aside lovely, and looks a lot like the drawings of Alice in Through The Looking-Glass, with a bit of pimped up attributes here and there making her a one of a kind variation. The wig has a good scent to it, so it won't get a foul odor on the clothing and accessories. It has no bald spots and you can't see the seams of the wig unless you push the hair over. It is a nice thin(dimensions matter!), polyester I believe, hair, with quite minute frizzing. Almost none, but making the hair look more natural. Her curls are not stiff, and incredibly soft. The company(Groove) used a very very high quality spray, that can't be noticed practically at all when touching the hair, to help keep the curls in their designated design. The curls are easily fixed with only moist fingers. Great doll, but very delicate. I've never been more careful with a doll than Alice.
Bendigo.
This gold city literally sits above gold deposits. It is generally acknowledged that the wives of two workmen (Kennedy and Farrell) on Ravenswood sheep station found the first gold in 1851 on Bendigo Creek. A memorial to the two women was erected in Golden Square in 2001. A township emerged overnight as Bendigo although officially it was Sandhurst for some time. Diggers rushed to the Bendigo goldfields in November 1851 from mines at nearby Castlemaine. Bendigo went on to become one of the major goldfields in Australia with the mine giving up millions of dollars’ worth of gold. Alluvial gold was found near Golden Square but eventually petered out. Shaft mines continue finding gold at Epsom, Kangaroo Flat, Eaglehawk and Diamond Hill now suburbs of Bendigo. 30,000 miners including many Chinese flocked to the district in 1852 with government officials and police soon on their heals. The big boom in shaft mining commenced in the 1850s the some work still continuing.
The main streets of Bendigo were surveyed in 1854 and many early structures from this period still remain but because of the wealth of the city grand and eloquent buildings were built a few years later in the 1870s and 1880s especially civic buildings, churches, banks, hotels and shops. Bendigo had a provincial Stock Exchange as gold company stocks were traded on markets around the world until it was closed in 2012. By the 1870s the city had 28,000 inhabitants. Many of the cities fine buildings were designed by a local architect William Charles (or Carl Wilhelm) Vahland who was born in Hanover Germany in 1828. Vahland arrived in Bendigo in 1854. He redesigned the Bendigo Town Hall between 1878-86 as well as designing the Fountain in Golden Square, the Masonic Temple (now the Capital Theatre), the famous Shamrock Hotel, Fortuna Villa and the School of Mines and Institute. The greater urban area of Bendigo today has over 110,000 people.
Classical door at 54 Meeting Street in Charleston, South Carolina. Doors placed like this typically open into a piazza rather than directly into the house.
Dallmeyer Super-Six 3" F1.9 + Schneider 100mm F2.0 + Nikon 80-200mm F2.8 + Canon 35mm F1.4L + Sony E 16mm F2.8 + Canon 5D + Sony NEX-3
Meeting laid down October 2009. The Clerk to Carlisle Local Meeting, Ian Watson, writes, "the MH was subsequently sold in June 2011 to a local charity Chrysalis Cumbria Ltd which works with young adults with learning disabilities."
Bought 1707; rebuilt 1830; altered 1958 including a new roof. The door on the right leads to the colonnade and entrances (see photo on this site).