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The Manerang massif and Dankhar bluff. Literally meaning "the jewel peak", Manirang at 6593 defines the southern border of Spiti with Kinnaur.
Sept 2012
Travel Diary: bnomadic.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/sham-wild-creature/
The monastery of "Santa Maria Occorrevole", in the site of "San Pasquale", in Piedimonte Matese. While you are walking in the wood, you find this wall: it's the border of the retreat of the "Loneliness".
"O Beata solitudo,
O sola beatitudo"
(Blessed loneliness, sole blessness).
Il monastero di "Santa Maria Occorrevole", in località San Pasquale, comune di Piedimonte Matese.
Mentre si cammina nel bosco, si incontra questo muro: è il confine dell'eremo della Solitudine.
"O Beata Solitudo
O Sola Beatitudo."
Rangdum Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery belonging to the Gelugpa sect, situated on top of a small but steep sugarloaf hill at an altitude of 3,657 m (11,998 ft) at the head of the Suru Valley, in Ladakh. It is next to the tiny village of Julidok, and about 25 km from the 4,400 m (14,436 ft) Pensi La (pass) which leads into Zanskar.
The Holy Stavropegiac and Patriarchal Preveli Monastery of St. John the Theologian, known as the Monastery of Preveli, comprises two main building complexes, the ruined Lower Monastery of St. John the Baptist, and the currently operational Upper Monastery of St. John the Theologian.
Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.
Kintsvisi Monastery (Georgian: ყინწვისი, Qinc'visi) is a Georgian Orthodox monastery in the Shida Kartli region, eastern Georgia, 10 kilometers from the town Kareli, on a forested slope of a high mountain of the Dzama valley.
The Kintsvisi Monastery complex consists of three churches, of uncertain origin. The central (main) central church dedicated to St Nicholas is thought to date to the early 13th century, in what is generally regarded as a "golden age" of the Georgian monarchy. A very small chapel standing next to it is dedicated to St George, and dates from around the same time.
The oldest church, dedicated to St Mary dates from the 10-11th centuries, but is mostly in ruins.
The site is currently listed by the World Monuments Fund as a field project.
Kintsvisi Monastery (Georgian: ყინწვისი, Qinc'visi) is a Georgian Orthodox monastery in the Shida Kartli region, eastern Georgia, 10 kilometers from the town Kareli, on a forested slope of a high mountain of the Dzama valley.
The Kintsvisi Monastery complex consists of three churches, of uncertain origin. The central (main) central church dedicated to St Nicholas is thought to date to the early 13th century, in what is generally regarded as a "golden age" of the Georgian monarchy. A very small chapel standing next to it is dedicated to St George, and dates from around the same time.
The oldest church, dedicated to St Mary dates from the 10-11th centuries, but is mostly in ruins.
The site is currently listed by the World Monuments Fund as a field project.
This spectacular Dominican monastery was endowed by King João I of Portugal to celebrate a victory over the Castilians in 1385. Construction extended until 1517, spanning the Late Gothic and Manueline styles.
Perched at the western edge of Mount Carmel, high above the Mediterranean and the coastal city of Haifa, is Stella Maris Monastery and church.
The name of the 19th-century monastery — Latin for “Star of the Sea” — refers not to the magnificent view, but rather to an early title accorded Mary, the mother of Jesus.
The monastery is the world headquarters of a Catholic religious order of friars and nuns, the Carmelites.
The order had its origins at the end of the 12th century when St Berthold, a Frenchman who had gone to the Holy Land as a Crusader, had a vision of Christ denouncing the evil done by soldiers.
Thiksey Monastery is located on top of a hill, at an altitude of 3,600m, approximately 19km east of Leh in the Ladakh region in north-west India. The monastery was founded in the mid-15th century and follows the Gelug – or “yellow hat” – school of Tibetan Buddhism. Thiksey grew in prominence in Ladakh, second only to Hemis Monastery, administering ten other monasteries in the region. The monastery continues to function as a proper monastic community with about 60 monks living there. Every morning at 7am the monks congregate for early morning prays and breakfast, consisting of barley and butter tea.
Painted door in Thiksey monastery, Ladakh, India.
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