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Legend has it that it was in the church that Galileo Galilei had one of the most important glimpses in the history of science. He was not inspired by a sermon, not even by a luxurious stained glass window. It was simply watching as a lamp lit by a sexton in the cathedral of Pisa swung from side to side.
Galileo realized that no matter how high the lamp swung from side to side, in the end it increased its speed and the time it took to cross that distance was the same. The story becomes even more exciting because the Italian genius would have used one of the only time references for small periods available at the time: the beats of the heart itself.
And it was in this way, associating the pulse of his heart with the observation of the pendulum movement of the sacristan lamp he saw in front of him, that Galileo was the first to realize that the pendulum could be used to measure time. Years later, the first grandfather clock would be created, inaugurating a world in which time was no longer measured only in days or at most in hours determined by the distant stars in the sky. The measure of the flow of time went down to minutes and then seconds accompanied by the regularity of natural laws that we could observe in the world immediately around us – if only we could think of observing and understanding them.
This is the phenomenon that we see in the video that starts this column, the pendulum movement, with all its regularity that inspired Galileo and is still today one of the most direct demonstrations of the validity of the laws of physics.
O sétimo andar foi concluído em 1319. A sino-câmara acabou por não ser adicionada até meados de 1372 e foi construída por Andrea Pisano, que conseguiu, por sua vez, harmonizar os elementos góticos da sino-câmara com o estilo românico da torre. Há sete sinos, um para cada nota da escala musical. O maior deles foi instalado em 1655.
Nos anos 1950, os sete sinos dentro da torre, cada um soando uma nota musical diferente e suspensos do chão foram silenciados por medo de um colapso catastrófico.
Uma nota especial sobre o sino 5: O nome Pasquareccia vem de Páscoa, porque é utilizado para tocar especialmente no dia de Páscoa. No entanto, este sino é o mais velho que o sino da câmara em si, e vem desde a torre de Vergata, no Palazzo Pretorio em Pisa, onde era chamado de La Giustizia (A Justiça). O sino foi usado para anunciar as execuções capitais de criminosos e traidores, incluindo o Conde Ugolino, em 1289. No final do século XVIII um novo sino foi instalado no campanário para substituir o sino que estava quebrado, o sino Pasquareccia.
The almost 1,000 year old church of Cellefrouin, Charente département of France.
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It is the largest Romanesque baptistery in Italy with a Gothic dome with perfect acoustics, carried out between the centuries. XII and XIV. There is a wonderful pulpit inside the century. XIII, by NIcola Pisano, and a baptismal tank, by Guido Bigarelli of Como.
The four doors, placed at the cardinal points, help to give this structure an extra feature. The exterior is beautiful, with its arches and columns covered by a distinctive red-tiled dome.
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San Tirso church in Sahagún, Spain.
It is generally accepted that Mudéjar art in architecture first appeared in the town of Sahagún in the 12th century. For the construction of buildings in Mudéjar style it was very common to use inexpensive materials like brick, wood, and stucco.
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Santo Domingo de Silos Abbey (Abadía del Monasterio de Santo Domingo de Silos) is a Benedictine monastery in the village of Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos Province, Spain.
The two-storey cloister of the monastery is considered a masterpiece of Romanesque art.
The lower storey was begun during the last quarter of the 11th century and completed in the second half of the 12th century.
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Romanische Kirchen Köln: St. Maria im Kapitol:
Über den Fundamenten des römischen Kapitolstempels und einer darauf erbauten Marienkirche entstand zwischen 1040 und 1065 die Kirche St. Maria im Kapitol als dreischiffiger Bau mit Dreikonchenanlage im Osten und dreitürmigem Westbau im Auftrag von Äbtissin Ida. Es handelt sich um ein Hauptwerk der salischen Kirchenbaukunst in Deutschland, sie ist die größte der romanischen Kirchen in Köln.
Für mich ist sie die schönste unter den romanischen Kirchen Kölns. Der Raumeindruck ist wunderbar harmonisch.
The Church of Saint Martin of Tours is located in Frómista, province of Palencia, Spain. The church was built in the 11th century in Romanesque style. It is often visited by the pilgrims on their way to Santiago de Compostela (when travelling along the so-called Camino Francés). In 1894 the church was declared a National Monument and a restoration was started, which brought the church back to its original state, removing numerous later additions. The church was reopened to the public in 1904.
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Esglesia Sant Miquel de Prats, romanesque chapel at Prats, Canillo, Vall d'Orient, Andorra, Pyrenees
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St. Bernard de Clairvaux Church is a medieval Spanish monastery cloister which was built in the town of Sacramenia in Segovia, Spain, in the 12th century but dismantled in the 20th century and shipped to New York City in the United States. It was eventually reassembled at 16711 West Dixie Highway, North Miami Beach, Florida, where it is now an Episcopal church and tourist attraction called Ancient Spanish Monastery. It is the oldest European-built structure in the Western Hemisphere.
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My second time at the top of the tower in a week and it is windy.
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Bell niche, made in 1360.
A special note about bell 5, the Pasquareccia bell:
The name Pasquareccia comes from Easter, because it is used to play especially on Easter day. However, this bell is older than the chamber bell itself, and comes from the tower of Vergata, in the Palazzo Pretorio in Pisa, where it was called La Giustizia (The Justice). The bell was used to announce the executions of criminals and traitors, including Count Ugolino, in 1289. At the end of the 18th century a new bell was installed in the belfry to replace the broken bell, the Pasquareccia bell.
romanische Brücke über den Rio Meruelo
Camino de Santiago, Spanien
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Santo Domingo de Silos Abbey (Abadía del Monasterio de Santo Domingo de Silos) is a Benedictine monastery in the village of Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos Province, Spain.
The two-storey cloister of the monastery is considered a masterpiece of Romanesque art. The capitals in the lower cloister are decorated with dragons, centaurs, lattices, and mermaids. The cloisters are the only surviving part of the monastery that has not changed since its inception.
The lower storey was begun during the last quarter of the 11th century and completed in the second half of the 12th century.
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The Great Saint Martin Church (German: Groß Sankt Martin, mostly Groß St. Martin) is a Romanesque Catholic church in Cologne, Germany. Its foundations (circa 960 AD) rest on remnants of a Roman chapel, built on what was then an island in the Rhine. The church was later transformed into a Benedictine monastery. The current buildings, including a soaring crossing tower that is a landmark of Cologne's Old Town, were erected between 1150-1250. The architecture of its eastern end forms a triconch or trefoil plan, consisting of three apses around the crossing, similar to that at St. Maria im Kapitol. The church was badly damaged in World War II, with restoration work completed in 1985.
Descent from the top of the tower.
It gives you all the feeling of gravity. You are pushed to the wall on the right.
The Baptistery of San Giovanni was founded in 1152 and is the largest in Italy. It has the same architectural style as the Cathedral, having been designed by Diotisalvi inspired by the Pantheon in Rome and the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. It is the largest Baptistery in Europe.
Church of St. Mary Magdalene (Přední Kopanina)
The Rotunda of St. Mary Magdalene in Prague-Přední Kopanina is a Romanesque rotunda, standing on the very northwestern edge of Prague, in the middle of the Přední Kopanina district. The rotunda falls under the administration of the Roman Catholic parish in Tuchoměřice.
The unplastered building of the church dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene is led out of small marl blocks, probably mined directly from the local quarry, which is still a well-known source of this material. The central part of the church is a round nave, the interior of which measures over five meters across, on the east side a semicircular apse joins the nave, on the west side a slender tower with an approximately square floor plan. Research in 1983 showed that this layout of the church is original, from the time of its construction, which is not documented in more detail, but is generally placed in the first half of the 12th century.
The presence of the portal on the floor of the south wall of the tower, interpreted as the entrance to the porch, may then indicate for this period the existence of a manor house in the vicinity of this side of the church.
A rectangular extension was later attached to the south side of the rotunda, which currently serves as the main nave, while the rotunda became a presbytery and the tower serves as a sacristy. The functional arrangement of the church is thus today, in contrast to the usual orientation to the east, rotated by 90 degrees.
The current appearance of the church of St. Mary Magdalene is the result of modern adaptations. After the collapse of the vault in 1779, the rotunda was left to its fate for a long time. It was not until 1852 to 1858 that an extensive renovation was carried out according to the project of Karel Wiesenfeld (1802-1870), a long-time professor of civil engineering at the Prague Polytechnic (this is the only case of Wiesenfeld's own construction work). The vault was then restored with a wooden structure instead of a stone one, the tower was noticeably raised, new window openings were made (only two windows are considered unchanged, medieval today, one on the ground floor of the west side of the tower, the other on the southeast side of the apse).
The marl altar relief with a scene of the Crucifixion, of uncertain age, perhaps from the second half of the 17th century, stands out from the furniture of the church. It is also worth mentioning the painting Adoration of the Magi with the side figures of St. Wenceslas and St. Ludmila by Josef Hellich from 1861 and the painting of St. Mary Magdalene by Vilém Kandler. The Gothic sandstone baptistery has been preserved from the older equipment. The stained glass windows date from the 1990s. So far, the last reconstruction of the building was completed in 2000.
The church of Saint Mary at Mount Naranco (Iglesia de Santa María del Naranco) is a pre-Romanesque building near Oviedo, Asturias, in northern Spain. The palace was completed in 842 and had in part a religious function, being consecrated in 848. In December 1985 the building/church was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Igreja Matriz de São Pedro, localizada no centro histórico de Trancoso, no distrito da Guarda. Fundada no século XVI, a igreja, que foi profundamente reformulada nos séculos XVI e XVII, apresenta uma mistura de estilos arquitetónicos, incluindo elementos românicos, manuelinos e barrocos, visíveis na sua fachada e no campanário quadrangular. Em primeiro plano, destaca-se o pelourinho manuelino, erguido no século XVI, que simboliza a autonomia municipal da vila. Este conjunto arquitetónico, que reflete a importância religiosa, administrativa e social de Trancoso, está situado junto ao Castelo e às antigas muralhas medievais, testemunhando o papel relevante da cidade na defesa da fronteira durante a Reconquista cristã e nas guerras com Castela.
São Pedro Church, located in the historic center of Trancoso, in the Guarda district. Founded in the 16th century, the church, which was deeply reformulated in the 16th and 17th centuries, presents a mixture of architectural styles, including Romanesque, Manueline and Baroque elements, visible on its façade and on the square bell tower. In the foreground, the Manueline pillory, erected in the 16th century, symbolizes the municipal autonomy of the village. This architectural ensemble, which reflects the religious, administrative and social importance of Trancoso, is located next to the Castle and the old medieval walls, bearing witness to the relevant role of the city in the defense of the border during the Christian Reconquista and in the wars with Castile.
Pont de l'Estarell, Les Salines, Ordino, Vall nord, Andorra, Pyrenees
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One of my few photographic souvenirs of my company outing last weekend. I unfortunately only had my cell phone with me.
We visited some special places of this small but historical city and I was especially impressed by this cathedral.
The Magdeburg Cathedral (Cathedral of Saints Maurice and Catherine ) is a Protestant (Lutheran) Cathedral and the oldest Gothic cathedral in the country. It is also the home to the grave of Emperor Otto I the Great and his first wife Edith.
The first church was built in 937 at the location of the current cathedral. The current cathedral was constructed over the period of 300 years starting from 1209 till 1520. Otto I was a Frankish king from 936 until 973 who continued the work of his father to unify all German tribes into a single kingdom.
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The Basilica of San Frediano originally was built in the first half of the VI century. The church acquired its present appearance of a typical Roman basilica during the period 1112-1147. In the 13th-14th centuries, the façade was decorated with a huge golden 13th-century Byzantine mosaic which is very rare in the Romanesque style. The mosaic represents The Ascension of Christ the Saviour. The apostles below originally venerated the image of the Virgin Mary, but there is now a window in this place. Lucca, Italy.
St Albans Cathedral, a former Benedictine Abbey Church
St Alban’s Abbey, with the shrine of England’s first martyr, became prestigious and important throughout most of the medieval period and it was England’s premier Benedictine abbey.
* A day after officiating the Royal wedding at Windsor Castle, Archbishop Justin Welby addressed hundreds of Christians at St Albans Cathedral on the eve of Pentecost Sunday (May 20), marking the end of the prayer movement ‘Thy Kingdom Come’.
** During the service he also blessed 500 postcards carrying prayers and strength for GCSE and A-Level students ahead of their exams.Additionally,there were prayer stations focused on social justice themes,including praying for people trapped in modern-day slavery.
Rich the Benedictine heritage of this place of worship ...
St Benedict taught that "Proper honour must be shown to all, especially to pilgrims." Hospitality is at the heart of the story of Alban who welcomed the fugitive priest.Today pilgrims from many different Christian denominations are encouraged to follow his ways.The largest of these pilgrimages takes place in June, at St Alban’s Day, with many thousands converging on the cathedral.
St. Albans Cathedral and Abbey Church - Hertfordshire UK in all its glory.
In Tulln (Niederösterreich | Lower Austria)
Spätromanischer Karner (= Friedhofskapelle und Beinhaus) aus dem zweiten Viertel des 13. Jh.s | Late Romanesque charnel house (= cemetery chapel and ossuary) from the second quarter of the 13th century
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Esglesia Sant Miquel de Prats, Prats, Canillo, Vall d'Orient, Andorra, Pyrenees - (c) Lutz Meyer
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I've had luck when I visited the Saint George's Cathedral in Limburg.
Only for short time the rays of sunlight were shining into the dom.
This was an illuminating moment.
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On February 27, 1964, the Italian government requested help to prevent the tower from falling. It was, however, considered important to maintain the slope due to the vital role this element played in promoting tourism in Pisa. [16] A multinational task force, composed of engineers, mathematicians and historians, met in the Azores to discuss stabilization methods. It was found that the slope was increasing because of the inconsistent foundation. Several methods have been proposed to stabilize the tower, including the addition of 800 tons of counterweights.
In 1987 the tower was declared part of Piazza del Duomo and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with the nearby cathedral, baptistery and cemetery. On January 7, 1990, after more than two decades of work on the subject, the tower was closed to the public. While the tower was closed the bells were removed to relieve the weight, and the tower was held by cables tied around the third level and anchored several hundred meters away. Apartments and houses on the way to the tower were vacated for security. The final solution to prevent tower collapse was to straighten the tower slightly to a safer angle by removing 38 cubic meters from the ground below. The tower was pulled up to 18 inches (45 centimeters), returning to its exact position in 1838. After a decade of corrective reconstruction and stabilization efforts, the tower was reopened to the public on December 15, 2001, and was declared stable. for at least another 300 years.
In May 2008, after the removal of another 70 tons of soil, engineers announced that the tower had been stabilized in such an order that it had stopped moving for the first time in its history. They stated that it would be stable for at least 200 years.