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The tower bridge of Ucanha, located near Tarouca, is a monument that joins the two banks of the Varosa River and is built on one of the ancient Roman roads in the interior of Beira.
The mediaeval bridge over the river Varosa in Ucanha, county Tarouca district Viseu.
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Josef Mánes - Antonín, his uncle and Director of the Prague Art Academy Václav, his brother Quido and his sister Amalie.[1]
His first painting lessons naturally came from his father. From 1835 to 1844, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, under Professors František Tkadlík and Christian Ruben. He continued his studies in Munich for two years. Upon his return, an affair with the family's maid had unpleasant results and created an estrangement with some members of his family that left him in a state of severe depression. He found refuge in the patronage of Count Bedřich Silva-Tarouca [cs] ,[1] living and working at his castle in Průhonice for twenty years. From there, he made many trips throughout Moravia, Upper Hungary (Slovakia) and Poland.
He took an active role in many artistic, literary and patriotic societies. He also participated in Sokol, an athletic organization for young men, designing uniforms and other materials for them. In 1857, he visited Italy and, three years later, took a trip to Russia, from which he returned mentally disturbed.
From 1866, his mental state worsened rapidly, afflicting him with bizarre behavior and obsessions. A recuperative trip to Italy failed to improve his health and he died in 1871, after much suffering. It is believed that his brain had been affected by syphilis or meningitis.
Work and honors
Mánes Bridge (Mánesův most), the first bridge downstream of the famous Charles Bridge, was in 1920 renamed in the painter's honour
He produced many paintings in every genre from landscapes and portraits to ethnographic and botanical studies. He even did paintings of the twelve months (Calendar plate) in face of the Prague Astronomical Clock. Although his work was little understood or appreciated in his lifetime, he is now considered to be among the greatest Czech painters.
In 1887, the Mánes Union of Fine Arts was created in his honor. One of the central bridges over the Vltava River bears his name and includes a statue of the painter at the Old Town end. His image has appeared on several Czechoslovak and Czech postage stamps.
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Another pic from Pruhonice park. If youll be visiting Prague I can recomend to visit this beautiful location. It is just few minutes from city center by car.
"The natural park (the area of 250 hectares) was founded in the year 1885 by the Count Arnošt Emanuel Silva-Tarouca.
Apart from its artistic and historic significance, the park is also valuable from the dendrological point of view with its collection of about 1.600 species of local and exotic plants. The collection of rhododendrons is particularly unique. There are about 8.000 rhododendrons within 100 taxa and cultivars. The Průhonice Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and Czech National Historic Landmark."
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Monastery of Sao Joao de Tarouca.
This monastery is normally considered to be the earliest Cistercian foundation in Portugal.
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Douro is a Portuguese wine region centered on the Douro River in the Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro region. It is sometimes referred to as the Alto Douro (upper Douro), as it is located some distance upstream from Porto, sheltered by mountain ranges from coastal influence. The region has Portugal's highest wine classification as a Denominação de Origem Controlada (DOC) and is registered as a Protected Designation of Origin under EU and UK law, and as a Geographical Indication in several other countries through bilateral agreements. While the region is best known for Port wine production, the Douro produces just as much table wine (non-fortified wines) as it does fortified wine. The non-fortified wines are typically referred to as "Douro wines".
Alto Douro was one of the 13 regions of continental Portugal identified by geographer Amorim Girão, in a study published between 1927 and 1930. Together with Trás-os-Montes it became Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Province.
The style of wines produced in the Douro range from light, Bordeaux-style claret to rich Burgundian-style wines aged in new oak.
There is archaeological evidence for winemaking in the region dating from the end of the Western Roman Empire, during the 3rd and 4th centuries AD, although grape seeds have also been found at older archaeological sites. In medieval times from the mid-12th century, Cistercians had an important influence on winemaking in the region, through their three monasteries Salzedas, São João de Tarouca and São Pedro das Águias.
In the 17th century, the region's vineyards expanded, and the earliest known mention of "Port wine" dates from 1675. The Methuen Treaty between Portugal and England in 1703, and the subsequent establishment of many British Port lodges in Porto meant that Port wine became the primary product of the region, and it became economically very important to Portugal. As part of the regulation of the production and trade of this valuable commodity, a royal Portuguese charter of 10 September 1756 defined the production region for Port wine. It thus became the world's first wine region to have a formal demarcation. The vineyards covered by this demarcation were situated in the western part of the present region. Later, the vineyards have progressively expanded to the east into hotter and drier areas.
Douro was not spared from the vine diseases of the 19th century. Powdery mildew (oidium) struck in 1852 and Phylloxera in 1863.
While table wine has always been produced in the region, for a long time little of it was seen outside the region itself. The Port lodges were focused on the production and export of Port wine, which was their unique product on the export market, and had little interest in other wine styles. Thus, while the wines could be good, for a long time, there was no attempt to use Douro grapes to produce more ambitious table wine. The person credited with creating the first ambitious Douro wine is Fernando Nicolau de Almeida, who worked as an oenologist with the Port house Ferreira. He visited Bordeaux during World War II, which gave him inspiration for creating a top-quality table wine. The wine Barca Velha, first produced in 1952 using grapes from Quinta do Vale de Meão situated in the Douro Superior subregion, was the result. Barca Velha didn't immediately get many followers, since most Port wine houses remained uninterested in non-fortified wines for a long time. A few more ambitious Douro wines made their appearance from the 1970s, but it was not until the 1990s when a large number of wines made their appearance. A contributing factor was Portugal's entry into the European Economic Community in 1986, which meant that the Port lodges' monopoly was abolished, thus paving the way for producers in the Douro valley to produce and bottle their own wine - Port or dry Douro wines. At this stage, several Port houses also introduced Douro wines into their range.
The Douro winemaking region was declared a World Heritage Site in 2001.
Aerial photograph from the salt patterns and the salt miner #caravan marching to the salt extraction site, where they cut brick like chunks of salt from the ground and load them on the camels, working from 8am to 4pm while temperatures rise above 45 Cº. The Danakil depression, #Ethiopia, is located below sea level and the region's salt deposits were created over time as water from the Red Sea periodically flooded the depression and evaporated, the most recent such flood was roughly 30,000 years ago and the next is estimated to be in about 10 million years.
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Ucanha-Aldeia vinhateira
Concelho- Tarouca
Distrito- Viseu
" A Ponte de Ucanha, com a sua torre fortificada, constitui um conjunto arquitectónico único no país e é hoje um Monumento Nacional ".
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Der Park Průhonice entstand ab 1885, als Lebenswerk des 1936 verstorbenen Grafen Ernst Silva-Tarouca. Wegen wirtschaftlicher Probleme musste er seinen Besitz an den Tschechoslowakischen Staat verkaufen.
Die Anlage 10 km von Prag entfernt im Stil eines klassischen Englischen Landschaftsgartens bezieht Teile des Tales des Flusses Botič mit ein. Heute umfasst der Park annähernd 220 Hektar Fläche, durchzogen von einem fast 40 Kilometer langen Spazierwegenetz.
La Albertina es un museo del centro de Viena, Austria. Alberga una de las más extensas colecciones gráficas del mundo con aproximadamente 65 000 dibujos y cerca de un millón de grabados, tanto antiguos como modernos. Sobresalen sus riquísimos fondos de Alberto Durero, de los cuales una selección se expuso en el Museo del Prado en 2005.
La institución debe su nombre a Alberto de Sajonia-Teschen (1738-1822), quien la fundó con su colección.
La Albertina se construyó en una de las últimas secciones que quedaban en pie de las murallas de Viena, el Bastión de Augusto. Originalmente estaba situado en ese lugar el Hofbauamt (Ministerio de Construcción), que había sido construido en la segunda mitad del siglo XVII. En 1745 el edificio fue remodelado por el director del Ministerio, Emanuel Teles Count Silva-Tarouca, para que fuera su palacio. El inmueble fue también conocido como Palais Taroucca.
El edificio fue más tarde ocupado por Alberto de Sajonia-Teschen, que lo utilizó como residencia y más tarde hizo traer su colección desde Bruselas, donde había ejercido como gobernador de los Países Bajos de los Habsburgo. Desafortunadamente, un tercio de la colección se perdió al naufragar el barco que la transportaba. El edificio fue ampliado con el nuevo propósito museal por Louis Montoyer.
La colección había sido empezada por el duque Alberto y el conde Giacomo Durazzo, el embajador austríaco en Venecia.[cita requerida] En 1776 el conde regaló 30 000 obras de arte al duque Alberto y su mujer Marie-Christine. Giacomo Durazzo —hermano de Marcello— dijo que «quería crear una colección para la posteridad que sirviese a propósitos más altos que el resto: la educación y el poder de la moral debe distinguir a esta colección» La colección fue enriquecida por los descendientes de Alberto.
En la década de 1820 el archiduque Carlos de Austria emprendió algunas modificaciones del edificio que afectaron principalmente a la decoración interior.
A principios de 1919 el edificio y la colección pasaron de los Habsburgo a la propiedad de la República de Austria. En 1920 la colección de grabados se unificó con la colección de la antigua biblioteca oficial de la corte (Hofbibliothek). Se le impuso el nombre de Albertina en 1921. En marzo de 1945 la Albertina fue gravemente dañada por los bombardeos. Fue totalmente remodelada en 1998 y está actualmente abierta.
El grueso de la colección lo conforman obras sobre papel: unos 65 000 dibujos (incluyendo también acuarelas) y cerca de un millón de grabados. También se custodian fotografías y planos de arquitectura.
El repertorio de dibujos incluye un núcleo sin parangón de Durero, con unas 120 piezas (Autorretrato a los 13 años, Gran mata de hierba, Liebre joven, vistas de Innsbruck...) así como ejemplos de Pisanello, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Leonardo da Vinci, Miguel Ángel, Rafael, El Bosco (El hombre árbol), Pieter Brueghel el Viejo, Cranach, Federico Barocci, Rubens, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Boucher, Fragonard, hasta el impresionismo y movimientos de finales del XIX y buena parte del XX (Renoir, Signac, Cézanne, Klimt, Egon Schiele).
El fondo de grabados es colosal, uno de los más extensos del mundo; arranca en el siglo XV e incluye ejemplos abundantes de Durero, Martin Schongauer, Lucas van Leyden, Marcantonio Raimondi, Francisco de Goya, hasta Pablo Picasso, pop art y autores vivos.
Debido a las exigencias de conservación de todas las obras sobre papel, que es un material muy sensible a la luz y los cambios de humedad, la Albertina solamente expone este tipo de piezas de manera temporal, y basa su exhibición permanente en la Colección Batliner.
Desde 2007, la Albertina alberga en préstamo unas 500 obras (mayormente pinturas) de los siglos XIX y XX, del Impresionismo hasta Alex Katz: la Colección Batliner, reunida desde la década de 1960 por el matrimonio del mismo apellido. Arranca con Claude Monet, Edgar Degas y Paul Cézanne, prosigue con los fovistas Henri Matisse y André Derain, y continúa con Kandinsky, los expresionistas alemanes, la vanguardia rusa y el surrealismo (Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró).
Mención aparte merece Pablo Picasso, con una decena de pinturas y abundantes dibujos y cerámicas en ejemplares únicos; en total el repertorio picassiano alcanza las cuarenta obras.
El arte más reciente queda representado por Alberto Giacometti, Francis Bacon, Gerhard Richter, Georg Baselitz...
Los almacenes de este museo cuentan con sofisticados sistemas de climatización y de seguridad. Las delicadas obras sobre papel se guardan ordenadas en kilómetros de estanterías a las que no acceden los visitantes. Mediante un sistema informático, un brazo o robot localiza y trae la caja que contiene la obra solicitada. Este sistema permite aprovechar al máximo el espacio, al reducir al mínimo los pasillos; pero en junio de 2009, una fuga de agua cubrió el suelo en varios centímetros y colapsó el sistema informático, obligando a un apresurado desalojo de miles de obras que afortunadamente se solventó sin daños.
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The Albertina is a museum in the Innere Stadt (First District) of Vienna, Austria. It houses one of the largest and most important print rooms in the world with approximately 65,000 drawings and approximately 1 million old master prints, as well as more modern graphic works, photographs and architectural drawings. Apart from the graphics collection the museum has recently acquired on permanent loan two significant collections of Impressionist and early 20th-century art, some of which will be on permanent display. The museum also houses temporary exhibitions.
The Albertina was erected on one of the last remaining sections of the fortifications of Vienna, the Augustinian Bastion. Originally, the Hofbauamt (Court Construction Office), which had been built in the second half of the 17th century, stood in that location. In 1744 it was refurbished by the director of the Hofbauamt, Emanuel Teles Count Silva-Tarouca, to become his palace; it was therefore also known as Palais Taroucca. The building was later taken over by Duke Albert of Saxen-Teschen who used it as his residence. Albert later brought his graphics collection there from Brussels, where he had acted as the governor of the Habsburg Netherlands. He had the building extended by Louis Montoyer. Since then, the palace has immediately bordered the Hofburg. The collection was expanded by Albert's successors. When his grandson Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen lived there until his death in 1895 it was called the Palais Erzherzog Albrecht.
The collection was created by Duke Albert with the Genoese count Giacomo Durazzo, the Austrian ambassador in Venice. In 1776 the count presented nearly 1,000 pieces of art to the duke and his wife Maria Christina (Maria Theresa's daughter). Count Durazzo, who was the brother of Marcello Durazzo, the Doge of Genoa – "wanted to create a collection for posterity that served higher purposes than all others: education and the power of morality should distinguish his collection...." In the 1820s Archduke Charles, Duke Albert and Maria Christina's foster son, initiated further modifications to the building by Joseph Kornhäusel, which affected mostly its interior decoration. After Archduke Charles, his son Archduke Albert]] then Albrecht's nephew Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen lived in the building.
In early 1919, ownership of both the building and the collection passed from the Habsburgs to the newly founded Republic of Austria. In 1920 the collection of prints and drawings was united with the collection of the former imperial court library. The name Albertina was established in 1921.
In March 1945, the Albertina was heavily damaged by Allied bomb attacks. The building was rebuilt in the years after the war and was completely refurbished and modernized from 1998 to 2003. Modifications of the exterior entrance sequence, including a distinctive roof by Hans Hollein were completed in 2008, when the graphics collection finally reopened. In 2018, the Albertina acquired the Essl Collection of 1,323 contemporary artworks, including pieces by Alex Katz, Cindy Sherman, Georg Baselitz, Hermann Nitsch, and Maria Lassnig.
From March 2020 will begin its existence a new Albertina Modern Museum. The collection of Albertina modern encompasses over 60,000 works by 5,000 artists.
Unique 180º aerial perspective of both craters at Erta Ale shield volcano, showing its lava lake and secondary smoking chimney. "Erta Ale" literally means "Smoking Mountain" in the local Afar language. Ethiopia, 2016. © Joel Santos - www.joelsantos.net
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