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This diorama located in the Castillo de San Marcus in Saint Augustine depicts its Spanish garrison getting ready to engage their British opponents during the 1702 British siege of Saint Augustine.
This is all you see when you look up, while relaxing by the pool.
Part way through our cruise around the islands. I had emergency eye surgery to repair a detached retina. in Honolulu. So instead of finishing our cruise, we stayed in Honolulu while I recuperated before heading home to Toronto. Surgery was a success, thank goodness!
Sentry box in the del Carmen Battery. El Morro castle, in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Garita en la BaterÃa del Carmen. Castillo del Morro, en el Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico.
In the night sky over ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) observatory at Paranal, the Moon shines along with two bright companions : already aloft in the heavens and glowing in the centre of the image is Venus, Earth’s closest planetary neighbour, and, to its right, the giant, though more distant planet, Jupiter. Such apparent celestial near misses — although the heavenly bodies are actually tens to hundreds of millions of kilometres apart — are called conjunctions. Still other sights delight this night view at Paranal : the radiant, reddish plane of the Milky Way, smouldering on the horizon, and an 8.2-metre VLT Unit Telescope, along with a 1.8-metre Auxiliary Telescope, standing firmly on the ground.
These boots are made for walkin'...
The same guy from before, now at 2nd Avenue and Albert Street (taken from the Burger Baron parking lot).
No medieval junketing, not a craft shop in sight, VILLEFRANCHE-DE-ROUERGUE must be as close as you can get to what a French provincial town used to be like, and it's also where you are as likely to hear Occitan spoken as French. It's a small place, lying on a bend in the Aveyron, 35km due south of Figeac and 61km east of Cahors across the Causse de Limogne. Built as a bastide by Alphonse de Poitiers in 1252 as part of the royal policy of extending control over the recalcitrant lands of the south, the town became rich on copper from the surrounding mines and its privilege of minting coins. From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, its wealthy men built the magnificent houses that grace the cobbled streets to this day.
Rue du Sergent-Bories and rue de la République, the main commercial street, are both very attractive, but they are no preparation for place Notre-Dame, the loveliest bastide central square in the region. It's built on a slope, so the uphill houses are much higher than the downhill, and you enter at the corners underneath the buildings. All the houses are arcaded at ground-floor level, providing for a market (Thurs morning) where local merchants and farmers spread out their weekly produce – the quintessential Villefranche experience. The houses are unusually tall and some are very elaborately decorated, notably the so-called Maison du Président Raynal on the lower side at the top of rue de la République.
The east side of the square is dominated by the church of Notre-Dame with its colossal porch and bell tower, nearly 60m high. The interior has some fine late fifteenth-century stained glass, carved choir stalls and misericords.
On the boulevard that forms the northern limit of the old town, the seventeenth-century Chapelle des Pénitents-Noirs (July–Sept daily 10am–noon & 2–6pm; €3.50) boasts a splendidly Baroque painted ceiling and an enormous gilded retable. Another ecclesiastical building worth the slight detour is the Chartreuse St-Sauveur (same hours; €3.50), about 1km out of town on the Gaillac road. It was completed in the space of ten years from 1450, giving it a singular architectural harmony, and has a very beautiful cloister and choir stalls by the same master as Notre-Dame in Villefranche, which, by contrast, took nearly 300 years to complete.
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