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San Giorgio Maggiore is a 16th century Benedictine church on the island of the same name . It was designed by Andrea Palladio and built between 1566 and 1610.
The façade is brilliantly white and represents Palladio's solution to the difficulty of adapting a classical temple facade to the form of the Christian church.
Riomaggiore (Rimazùu in the local Ligurian language) is a village and comune in the province of La Spezia, situated in a small valley in the Liguria region of Italy. It is the first of the Cinque Terre one meets when traveling north from La Spezia.
The village, dating from the early thirteenth century, is known for its historic character and its wine, produced by the town's vineyards. Riomaggiore is in the Riviera di Levante region and has shoreline on the Mediterranean's Gulf of Genoa, with a small beach and a wharf framed by tower houses. Riomaggiore's main street is Via Colombo and numerous restaurants, bars & shops can be found on this street.
The Via dell'Amore is a path connecting Riomaggiore to its frazione Manarola, also part of the Cinque Terre.
Riomaggiore is the most southern village of the five Cinque Terre, all connected by trail. The water and mountainside have been declared national parks.
El-Kurru is the northernmost of the early Kushite royal burial grounds containing over 20 royal burials. The earliest known are ancestral tombs that predate the Kushite kingdom. Pyramid Ku 1 and tomb Ku 16
A classic Hanseatic League town and deservedly a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The River Trave almost encircles Lübeck and there are magificent vistas all along the way.
Drive to Ajlun Castle
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Gentleman in Iban warrior costume; Wildflower Restaurant at the Royal Mulu Resort in the Gunung Mulu National Park in Sarawak (Mon 5-10-2009).
Through time, the tomb structures developed from simple mounds with rounded enclosure walls to rectangular tomb structures with rectangular walls and small mortuary chapels. Some of the later tombs were covered with pyramids. Pyramid Ku 1
May 2013.
Week's holiday in Malta based in Sliema.
The Ġgantija Temples consist of two megalithic temples surrounded by a massive common boundary wall and dating to between 3600 BC and 3200 BC. The Ġgantija temples, erected during the Neolithic Age, are the earliest of a series of megalithic temples in Malta.
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Looking down to the entrance of the Khoja Akhmet Yassawi mausoleum from the top of one of the flanking towers
Owing to rising groundwater over the past 2,300 years, the tomb is now underwater. With support from the National Geographic Society, the underwater tomb of king Nastasen, who ruled Nubia ca. 328-308 BCE, has been excavated and explored using scuba equipment. A sarcophagus and a small statue were found (Ref: Cleveland Museum of Natural History / National Geographic, video on YouTube, documentary 'The Black Pharaohs').
The high relief figure of an elephant is at the end of a wall or balustrade on the central terrace of the Great Enclosure. The many representations of elephants here have led to suggestions that Musawwarat es-Sufra may have been a training centre for elephants for war or for ceremonial purposes (now mostly discounted).
The function of the Great Enclosure is unknown and several ideas have been proposed. It has been suggested that it was a religious site and pilgrimage centre whose Central Temple (Temple 100) was dedicated to Amun-Re, while its courtyard served as a gathering place and shelter for people coming from the Nile valley for religious festivals. Because of its single chamber structure, it is now believed that the Central Temple was dedicated to indigenous gods.
I traveled to India for the first time to present a keynote at the 3rd Global Conference on Emerging Trends for Business Librarianship, November 21-22, 2017 at the Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad, India. We did some sightseeing on our last day in India and visited the amazing Rani ki vav stepwell near Patan, north of Ahmedabad. I am so very glad that I made it here. From the Wikipedia page, "Rani ki vav, or Ran-ki vav (Queen’s step well) was constructed during the rule of the Chaulukya dynasty. It is generally assumed that it was built in the memory of Bhima I (r. c. 1022–1064) by his widowed queen Udayamati and probably completed by Udayamati and Karna after his death. A reference to Udayamati building the monument is in Prabandha Chintamani, composed by the Jain monk Merunga Suri in 1304 AD." The term vav is Gujarati for stepwell. Pictures from Thursday November 23, 2017.
December 28, 2019 - "The Nabataean temple of Qasr Al-Bint is standing within a large paved temenos to a height of 23m. it is surrounded by a peribolos, an enclosure wall, to which seats were added during the time of King Aretas IV ( 9BC-AD40) according to two inscriptions, one of which is still engaged between the seats.
The northern façade is atetrastyle-in-antis (four columns framed by pilasters) and approached through a monumental stairway, rivetted with marble. An altar for sacrifices faces the cultic chaple to the north.
The priests proceeded from the pronaos to the cella and to the tripartite adyton or holy of the holies according to the Syrian tradition. In the central chapel the idols were exposed on a raised platform. A fourth century author recorded that the temples was dedicated to Dhu-Shara and his virgin mother al-Uzza-Aphrodite. Greek inscriptions and a fragmentary eye-idol discovered in the temple confirm this attribution.
The side chambers had balcony roofs, accessible through stairways logged in the walls. They served for sacred symposia and were provided with marble seats. The upper floors were probably for the storage of archives and sacred objects. Qasr Al-Bint was remarkable for its inner and outer stucco decoration, representing ashlar courses, relief panels and vegetal scrolls. A marble dado rivetted the inner wall to a height of 70cm.The temple was built in the second half of the first century BC and reused by the Romans in the second century AD. At the end of the third century AD the monument was looted and intentionally destroyed by fire-before it was struck by the AD 363 earthquake. A medieval occupation was revealed on the Monumental Stairway". Description from the following website: visitpetra.jo/DetailsPage/VisitPetra/LocationsInPetraDeta...
Detail of arched windows and columns with decorated capitals. Some of the capitals in the chapel had to be removed as they proved to be too fragile to continue to carry the extremely heavy architraves,
Riomaggiore (Rimazùu in the local Ligurian language) is a village and comune in the province of La Spezia, situated in a small valley in the Liguria region of Italy. It is the first of the Cinque Terre one meets when traveling north from La Spezia.
The village, dating from the early thirteenth century, is known for its historic character and its wine, produced by the town's vineyards. Riomaggiore is in the Riviera di Levante region and has shoreline on the Mediterranean's Gulf of Genoa, with a small beach and a wharf framed by tower houses. Riomaggiore's main street is Via Colombo and numerous restaurants, bars & shops can be found on this street.
The Via dell'Amore is a path connecting Riomaggiore to its frazione Manarola, also part of the Cinque Terre.
Riomaggiore is the most southern village of the five Cinque Terre, all connected by trail. The water and mountainside have been declared national parks.
Riomaggiore (Rimazùu in the local Ligurian language) is a village and comune in the province of La Spezia, situated in a small valley in the Liguria region of Italy. It is the first of the Cinque Terre one meets when traveling north from La Spezia.
The village, dating from the early thirteenth century, is known for its historic character and its wine, produced by the town's vineyards. Riomaggiore is in the Riviera di Levante region and has shoreline on the Mediterranean's Gulf of Genoa, with a small beach and a wharf framed by tower houses. Riomaggiore's main street is Via Colombo and numerous restaurants, bars & shops can be found on this street.
The Via dell'Amore is a path connecting Riomaggiore to its frazione Manarola, also part of the Cinque Terre.
Riomaggiore is the most southern village of the five Cinque Terre, all connected by trail. The water and mountainside have been declared national parks.