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Alcune delle numerosissime sepolture preistoriche scavate nella roccia e sparse in tutta l’isola. In foto le domus di Santo Stefano, testimonianze del neolitico in un luogo già ricco di evidenze archeologiche, pieno di fascino e sacralità.
Qui si può ammirare l’enigmatico e spettacolare Altare di Santo Stefano (v. descrizione e foto in album "Altre memorie... di pietra"), oltre a strane forme di roccia con misteriose incisioni (v. foto in album "Visioni e suggestioni di Sardegna").
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Lucerne / Luzern is a city in Switzerland. It is the capital of the Canton of Lucerne and seat of the district with the same name. With a population of 76,156, Lucerne is the most populous city in Central Switzerland, and a focal point of the region. Due to its location on the shore of Lake Lucerne (Vierwaldstättersee), within sight of Mount Pilatus and Rigi in the Swiss Alps, Lucerne is traditionally considered first and foremost as a tourist destination. One of the city's famous landmarks is Chapel Bridge (Kapellbrücke), a wooden bridge first built in the 14th century. It has also been voted as the 5th most popular tourism destination in the world in 2010 by Tripadvisor and has private hotel schools most notably on the shores of lake Luzern in Kastanienbaum.
Jesuitenkirche (Jesuit Church) is the first large sacral Baroque church in Switzerland; constructed in 1666 by Father Christoph Vogler for the Jesuits. The vault was redecorated in the mid-18th century. The original vestments of Brother Klaus, a famous Swiss patron, are stored in the inner chapel.
Slightly different angle than on the last post. You can see by that wet and reflecting ground that it must have raining heavily and it really was - I was standing there with large borrowed umbrella above my camera and many people probably thought I must be crazy - well you dont have choice when you travel, rain, no rain - luckily it was around 30C that evening so the rain was somewhat refreshing :-)
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Haridwar es una de las ciudades mas sagradas de India. Los peregrinos acuden en riadas para hacer abluciones en el sagrado Ganges. Haridwar esta muy concurrida durante el yatra, de abril a noviembre pero el gran evento anual es el Magh Mela que cada seis agnos se convierte en el Ardh Magh Mela y cada doce agnos en el Kumbh Mela (ultimo en 2010) que atrae a millones de peregrinos (pronto haremos una entrada sobre este evento que se celebrara a finales de enero de 2013 en Allahabad).
La ciudad puede recordar en cierta manera a Varanasi (sin tanto pesado y con el agua limpia), aunque quizas con un poco mas de ambiente.
El Ghat principal es el Har-Ki-Pairi-Ghat (el Ghat de la Pisada de Dios) ya que se eleva en el lugar exacto en el que Visnu vertio un poco de nectar divino y dejo impresa la huella de su pie. Es un lugar de enorme sacralidad para los hindues, un sitio donde expiar los pecados. A la noche cientos de fieles se reunen para la Ganga Aarti (ceremonia de adoracion al rio). El mejor momento para visitar el Ghat es a primera hora de la manana o justo antes del anochecer, aunque hay ambiente durante todo el dia.
Ruins of a medieval fortified church are located above the village of Lúčka, situated at the border of the Slovenské rudohorie mountain range and the national park of Slovenský kras. The village had been known since 1409 as part of the Turňa Castle Estate donated to Pál Besen by King Sigismund.
According to the testimony provided by the local church, however, the village dates back to at least the half of the 13th century. The church itself was built as an early-Gothic church of the Gemer style. In the first half of the 15th century, it was surrounded by a defensive stone wall with a watchtower situated in the front. The small fortress was captured by Jan Jiskra’s troopsand is commonly called the Hussite church by the locals. Only the external walls of the church and the considerably lowered defensive wall with the tower that later on served as a belfry have been preserved up to the present. The quadratic tower used to have two floors in the past, with three windows on the first floor and three loopholes on the ground floor that served to watch the surroundings and to protect the fortress from three sides: the west, the south, and the east. The top of the slope upon which the church was built provided for the natural protection from the north.
The area where the church stands counts among the ecologically cleanest territories in Slovakia. It provides for exceptionally good conditions for recreationin a peaceful natural setting and for short walks in the basin of the Čremošná, to the lake of Lúčka, as well as to the surrounding beech and fir forests. Moreover, the unique natural reserve of Zádielska dolina is located in close distance, lined with plateaux where traces of fortified prehistoric settlements were confirmed by archaeological surveys.
the church St. Sebastian in Ramsau near Berchtesgaden is not really a sunset location. The mountains in the west are too high and too close, they hide the sun very early. It's much more beautiful during the blue hour with the lights at the church... I just came that early to save a place for my tripod at this popular place (what was not necessary, I was alone in the end). But luckily a short time after sunset the whole sky was glowing and the creek reflected the color...
"Sacro" è parola indoeuropea che significa "separato".
La sacralità, quindi, non è una condizione spirituale o morale, ma una qualità che inerisce a ciò che ha relazione e contatto con potenze che l'uomo, non potendo dominare, avverte come superiori a sé, e come tali attribuibili a una dimensione, in seguito denominata "divina", pensata comunque come "separata" e "altra" rispetto al mondo umano.
Dal sacro l'uomo tende a tenersi lontano, come sempre accade di fronte a ciò che si teme, e al tempo stesso ne è attratto come lo si può essere nei confronti dell'origine da cui un giorno ci si è emancipati. Questo rapporto ambivalente è l'essenza di ogni religione che come vuole la parola, recinge, tenendola in sé raccolta (re-legere), l'area del sacro, in modo da garantirne ad un tempo la separazione e il contatto, che restano comunque regolate da pratiche rituali capaci da un lato di evitare l'espansione incontrollata del sacro e dall'altro la sua inaccessibilità.
Sembra che tutto ciò sia stato presentito dall'umanità prima di temere o invocare qualsiasi divinità. Dio, infatti, nella religione, è arrivato con molto ritardo.
Umberto Galimberti
L’area archeologica di Sa Fronte ‘e Uda è situata lungo il margine dell’altopiano basaltico che domina a nord-est il solco vallivo del Rio Murtazzolu e a sud il paese di Dualchi. I due monumenti che la compongono, non facili da individuare, sono situati a breve distanza fra loro, confusi in mezzo ai massi di basalto.
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Berlin, Skyline, Lustgarten, 2015
Hier noch eine 180° Ansicht in Richtung Unter den Linden / Lustgarten smile emoticon Ist ein doppelreihiges Panorama aus insgesamt 12 Einzelbildern...gemacht hatte ich das, damit ich die Engelsstatuen mit draufkriege ! Very dramatic...
The Roman Catholic wooden church of St. Francis of Assisi, made of red spruce, was built at the end of the 15th century in the Gothic style. It is situated on a small elevation in the centre of the village of Hervartov in the Bardejov district. Since 2008 it has been included in the list of UNESCO monuments.
It is the oldest and one of the best preserved wooden churches in Slovakia. The church is enclosed by a stone wall with pilasters, which gives visitors the impression of a small fortress. The sacral building consists of a polygonal sanctuary, a nave, a sacristy and an undercroft, which has been modified to create a granary. The church also includes a bell tower.
While the exterior of the oldest wooden church on the Slovak side of the Carpathian Mountains has remained unchanged, the interior has undergone several modifications due to the Reformation, the Recatholization and the Baroque style. Surface compositions of geometric shapes as well as scenes from the lives of saints or moral scenes make up the rich decoration of the interior walls of the Hervart church.
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Made completely of clinker bricks (style: 'Brick Gothic');
Bad Doberan, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Eastern Germany
Gustelnica - Wooden chapel of St. Antony of Padua
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In the vicinity of Jelšava, an old mining village Rákoš hides a quiet church with unique Gothic paintings. The church was built on an elevated site in the northern part of the village under the slope of Železník Hill on top of which a castle of the Bubek Family was once standing.
The Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity is an early Gothic single-nave building from the mid-13th century. It has still a Romanesque horseshoe-shaped apse and slotted Romanesque windows, but the entrance portal is already formed by a Gothic arch. The nave has a flat wooden painted ceiling from the end of the 17th century. In front of the church stands a Baroque brick belfry with a wooden superstructure.
Wall paintings from the last third of the 15th century cover the walls and the vault of the chancel and almost the entire northern wall of the nave. High-quality Italian fresco paintings can be seen, a piece of art ordered by the wealthy noblemen from the House of Bubek. Travelling through northern Italy in the service of King Louis the Great, they had an opportunity to acquaint themselves with the best works of Italian masters whom they brought to the Kingdom of Hungary to decorate churches in Plešivec, Štítnik, and Rákoš. The vault of the sanctuary depicts the Christ Pantocrator with angels, the four church fathers and the symbols of the Evangelists (Matthew – angel, Mark – lion, Luke – bull, and John – eagle). On the walls of the sanctuary, we can find prophets, apostles and three saint kings: Ladislaus, Stephen, and Emeric. In the window lining, there are figures of women saints: Catherine, Barbara, Elisabeth and Margaret of Hungary. One of the most interesting parts is the unconventional depiction of Christ standing in a grave held by Mother Mary. The scene is complemented with the figures of an angel and of St. John the Baptist. Figures of saints, prophets, a depiction of the ten virgins, a partially damaged figure of the Virgin Mary Protector and a very well-preserved sitting figure of God with three faces giving blessings are on the walls of the triumphal arch. This unusual way of portraying the Holy Trinity which has been later banned by the Trident Council for its striking resemblance to the pagan god Triglav, still appears in two other locations in Slovakia – Ochtiná (logo of the Gothic Route) and Žehra.
The northern wall of the nave is almost entirely covered with murals in three horizontal bands. The upper band depicts scenes from the St. Ladislaus legend, it shows lancer horse riders of the St. Ladislaus’s royal entourage at the forefront, in a dynamic moment of fight with the Cumans. The second and the third band below portray the Last Judgment with the central figure of Christ the Redeemer with angels and a number of saints on the sides. Right below them we can see open graves from which dead are rising. Archangel Michael divides them into two groups, the saved ones, who walk to the left towards the heaven‘s gate, and the damned ones, whose chains are bound by the devils to the gate of hell. The most recent of the paintings date back to the first half of the 15th century; they depict the Assumption of the Virgin, individual figures of saints and the Stigmatization of St. Francis. We have chosen the hand of St. Francis with a stigma as the logo of the church. On the outer southern wall of the church, fragments of the painting of Madonna and Child have been preserved. Since 1992, there have been intermittent renewal activities of the church taking place, during which the restoration of murals was included. Furniture is stored and it would be returned into the church, once the restoration works are finished.
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La peregrinación es traslado, desplazamiento físico y emocional, desde el mundo local, cotidiano y profano hasta un espacio sagrado. La sacralidad del destino final se constituye como
hierofanía, es decir una revelación de lo sagrado (Eliade 1967).1 Por lo general, el ámbito de influencia de los lugares sagrados está restringido a espacios locales y regionales, pero existen otros cuyo prestigio alcanza magnitudes supranacionales, y hasta «universales».
Los lugares de peregrinación son centros de poder sacralizado que poseen una gran capacidad de convocatoria no sólo por la hierofanía que albergan, sino también por el contenido simbólico asociado y todo el conjunto de actividades vinculadas a ellos.
Las islas del Sol y de la Luna, conocidas como Titicaca y Coati respectivamente, fueron el destino final de una de las peregrinaciones más importantes de la época incaica. Ocupaban el tercer lugar «en reputación y autoridad» después del Coricancha y Pachacamac (Cobo 1956 [1653]: 189).
Dichas islas se hallan al sur del lago Titicaca (lago Chucuito, según Cobo). Por su cercanía, están estrechamente vinculadas a la península de Copacabana, lugar donde en la actualidad se encuentrael santuario de la Virgen de Copacabana, cuya devoción convoca a una de las romerías católicas másgrandes de América.
Church of St. John of Dukla and Monastery of Bernadine monks - the church with two towers was built between 1761 and 1764 in the late baroque style. The temple was extended from 1890 to 1902 when a chapel of St. John of Dukla was built and the main nave was enlarged. Also monastery building was added. The interior dates back to the turn of the 19th century. The paintings of Tadeusz Popiel present scenes from life of St. John of Dukla. There is a silver coffin with relics of St. John. Pope John Paul II came to Dukla on 9th of August, a day before the canonization event and he spent a night in the monastery
From Bronseplassen, Norway.
Freyr (Old Norse: Lord), sometimes anglicized as Frey, is a widely attested god in Norse mythology, associated with sacral kingship, battle, virility, peace and prosperity, with sunshine and fair weather, and with good harvest. Freyr, sometimes referred to as Yngvi-Freyr, was especially associated with Sweden and seen as an ancestor of the Swedish royal house. According to Adam of Bremen, Freyr was associated with peace and pleasure, and was represented with a phallic statue in the Temple at Uppsala. According to Snorri Sturluson, Freyr was "the most renowned of the æsir", and was venerated for good harvest and peace.
In the mythological stories in the Icelandic books the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, Freyr is presented as one of the Vanir, the son of the sea god Njörðr, or Njord, as well as the twin brother of the goddess Freyja. The gods gave him Álfheimr, the realm of the Elves, as a teething present. He rides the shining dwarf-made boar Gullinbursti and possesses the ship Skíðblaðnir which always has a favorable breeze and can be folded together and carried in a pouch when it is not being used. Freyr is also known to have been associated with the horse cult. He also kept sacred horses in his sanctuary at Throndheim in Norway. He has the servants Skírnir, Byggvir and Beyla.
The most extensive surviving Freyr myth relates Freyr's falling in love with the female jötunn Gerðr. Eventually, she becomes his wife but first Freyr has to give away his sword which fights on its own "if wise be he who wields it." Although deprived of this weapon, Freyr defeats the jötunn Beli with an antler. However, lacking his sword, Freyr will be killed by the fire jötunn Surtr during the events of Ragnarök.
Like other Germanic deities, veneration of Freyr is revived during the modern period through the Heathenry movement. wikipedia
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