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Alburquerque

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 12:41:57 +0000

The small town near the border to Portugal has about 5600 inhabitants. The city in New Mexico (USA), named after this place, has more than half a million.

A round chapel just outside the town.

Montesiepi - Eremo di Montesiepi (PiP)

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 22:21:03 +0000

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On the hill, neighboring the former "Abbazia di San Galgano" is the "Eremo di Montesiepi", erected over San Galgano´s tomb.

Legends tell, that the knight Galgano Guidotti (later "San Galgano") had visions. In one vision he arrived accompanied by archangel Michael on top of the Monte Siepi, where he met Jesus and the twelve Apostles.

Galgano Guidotti decided to live a pious life as a hermit and planted his sword in the ground, from where nobody could remove it. The handle of this sword can still be seen inside the rotunda. It is said, that many people have tried to steal the sword. There is even a mummified hand of a thief that tried to remove the sword.

A few years after Galgano Guidotti had died in 1181, he got canonized. A pilgrimage started soon after - and the construction of the rotunda started.

Antrodoco - Santa Maria Extra Moenia

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 22:01:03 +0000

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The small hexagonal building is the Baptistery of San Giovanni. It was built in the 9th century. It is older than the neighboring Santa Maria Extra Moenia to which it belongs

Antrodoco - Santa Maria Extra Moenia

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 21:50:15 +0000

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An early Christian church on site was built here in the 5th century on the ancient remains of a temple to Diana. The structures have undergone various restorations, including in the 12th century. Documents note that a reconstructed Santa Maria was rededicated in 1054 and rebuilt in 1178 under the reign of Frederick I (aka Barbarossa).

The portal has a very nice lintel

Antrodoco - Santa Maria Extra Moenia

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 21:39:47 +0000

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Antrodoco - Santa Maria Extra Moenia

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 22:20:41 +0000

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Napoli - San Francesco di Paola

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 20:56:00 +0000

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Napoli is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city in Italy. Its metropolitan area has a population of more than 3 million.

Founded by Greek settlers before 900 BC, Napoli was an important part of Magna Graecia and played a major role in the merging of Greek and Roman society.

Following the decline of the Western Roman Empire Napoli was shortly ruled by the Ostrogoths. Byzantine troops captured the city in 536m but after the Byzantine exarchate, Ravenna fell a Duchy of Naples was created. Over centuries the Duchy´s relations to Rome or Byzanz were hard-fought. In 836 Napoli could repel a siege of Lombard troops with the help of the Saracens, which did not prevent Muhammad I Abu 'l-Abbas in the 850s loot Napoli. In the 11th century, the Duchy hired Norman mercenaries, and in about 1140 it came under Norman control under Roger II, then King of Sicily.

In 1228 Emperor Frederick II founded the first university in Europe here, making Napoli the intellectual center of the kingdom. The conflict between the House of Hohenstaufen and the Papacy led in 1266 to Pope Innocent IV crowning the Angevin duke Charles I King of Sicily. Charles officially moved the capital from Palermo to Napoli.

In 1282 after the "Sicilian Vespers", a successful rebellion on the island of Sicily against the rule of King Charles I, the Kingdom of Sicily was divided into two. The Angevin Kingdom of Naples included the southern part of the Italian peninsula, while the island of Sicily became the Aragonese Kingdom of Sicily.

By the 17th century, Naples had become Europe's second-largest city – second only to Paris – with around 250000 inhabitants.

San Francesco di Paola is located on Piazza del Plebiscito opposite the Palazzo Reale.

The entire square, as well as the large buildings and colonnades on its west side, were planned at the beginning of the 19th century by the then King of Naples, Joachim Murat, a brother-in-law of Napoleon. In order to make space for the new buildings, he first had the old monastery knocked down. After Napoleon was exiled and Joachim Murat was deposed, the Bourbons again ascended the throne of Napoli. King Ferdinand I launched a competition in 1817 and dedicated the planned church to Saint Francis of Paola. The church was finally built and consecrated in 1836.

The shape of the church is reminiscent of the Pantheon in Rome.

Parma - Baptistery (PiP)

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 19:52:05 +0000

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Parma was most probably founded by the Etruscans. The Romans founded a colony here. During the Roman Empire, it gained the title of Julia for its loyalty to the imperial house.

Attila sacked the city in 452 and during the Gothic War Totila Attila sacked the city in 452 and during the Gothic War Totila destroyed it again. It was then part of the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna and, from 569, of the Lombard Kingdom of Italy. During the Middle Ages, Parma became an important stage of the Via Francigena, the main road connecting Rome to Northern Europe.

Under Frankish rule, Parma was nominally a part of the Holy Roman Empire created by Charlemagne but locally ruled by its bishops. After the Peace of Constance in 1183 confirmed the Italian communes' rights of self-governance, quarrels with the neighboring communes became harsh, with the aim of controlling the vital trading line over the Po River.
The city was besieged in 1247–48 by Emperor Frederick II, who was however crushed in the Battle of Parma by the Lombard League. In 1331, the city submitted to King John of Bohemia. Parma fell under the control of Milan in 1341. After a short-lived period of independence, the Sforza imposed their rule creating a kind of feudalism.

The Baptistery is located in the immediate vicinity of the Cathedral. It was commissioned by the City Council to architect and sculptor Benedetto Antelami. In 1216 the second tier was completed. The work stopped under a temporary roof. It continued in 1249 and the octagon was finally completed in 1270.

The interior of the baptistery contains sixteen arches, forming alcoves each containing a painted scene. All these are 13th and 14th-century frescoes. Most striking is the painted domed ceiling. The dome is like an umbrella - sixteen rays come out of the center of the ceiling.

Crema - Santa Maria della Croce

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 20:13:48 +0000

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In 1159, after it had signed an alliance with Milan against the Ghibelline Cremona, Crema was besieged, stormed, and destroyed by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa.

After the Peace of Constance in 1183, the city was allowed to be rebuilt. A period as a free Commune followed. The communal independence ended in 1335, when the city surrendered to Gian Galeazzo Visconti, whose family held the city until the end of the century. From 1449 onwards to the Republic of Venice.

As a Venetian inland province, Crema obtained numerous privileges. It maintained a substantial level of autonomy, which allowed for a program of new buildings.

Santa Maria della Croce was built in the Lombard Renaissance style outside the medieval walls, on the road to Bergamo where a Marian apparition may have affected Caterina degli Uberti, a woman from Cremona. Legend holds that in 1490, after she was fatally wounded by her husband in a wooded area close to the town, and wishing to die in the Grace of God, she implored the help of the Virgin Mary who, it is said, ferried her to a nearby farmhouse.

The sanctuary, in an unfinished state, was damaged in the 1514 siege of the city by the Duchy of Milan. In 1694 the sanctuary was committed to the care of the Discalced Carmelites who, in 1706, began the construction of the annexed convent. In 1710 they also added a bell tower.

There are many more stories to tell about "Santa Maria della Croce". This "slot machine" knows them all and it is willing to share them<

Crema - Santa Maria della Croce

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 19:53:55 +0000

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In 1159, after it had signed an alliance with Milan against the Ghibelline Cremona, Crema was besieged, stormed, and destroyed by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa.

After the Peace of Constance in 1183, the city was allowed to be rebuilt. A period as a free Commune followed. The communal independence ended in 1335 when the city surrendered to Gian Galeazzo Visconti, whose family held the city until the end of the century. From 1449 onwards to the Republic of Venice.

As a Venetian inland province, Crema obtained numerous privileges. It maintained a substantial level of autonomy, which allowed for a program of new buildings.

Santa Maria della Croce was built in the Lombard Renaissance style outside the medieval walls, on the road to Bergamo where a Marian apparition may have affected Caterina degli Uberti, a woman from Cremona. Legend holds that in 1490, after she was fatally wounded by her husband in a wooded area close to the town, and wished to die in the Grace of God, she implored the help of the Virgin Mary who, it is said, ferried her to a nearby farmhouse.

The sanctuary, in an unfinished state, was damaged in the 1514 siege of the city by the Duchy of Milan. In 1694 the sanctuary was committed to the care of the Discalced Carmelites who, in 1706, began the construction of the annexed convent. In 1710 they also added a bell tower.

Crema - Santa Maria della Croce

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 19:31:19 +0000

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Venezia - La Maddalena

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 21:53:59 +0000

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Venice (ital. Venezia) is one of the most important tourist destinations worldwide with about 30 million visitors each year.

I have already uploaded dozens of shots from previous visits, so I´ll try to cut down the number of uploads this time.

Santa Maria della Maddalena (aka "La Maddalena") was designed by the Venetian architect Tommaso Temanza (1705-89).

The entrance to the church is surmounted by the inscription SAPIENTIA AEDIFICAVIT SIBI DOMUM (Wisdom has built herself a home).

Torcello - Chiesa di Santa Fosca

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 09:11:32 +0000

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Venice (ital. Venezia) is one of the most important tourist destinations worldwide with about 30 million visitors each year.

I have already uploaded dozens of shots from previous visits, so I´ll try to cut down the number of uploads this time.

Torcello island at the northern end of the Venetian Lagoon. It has been referred to as the parent island from which Venice was populated. It was a town with a cathedral and bishops before St Mark's Basilica was built.

Torcello was one of the first lagoon islands to be populated by those Veneti who fled the "terra ferma" to take shelter from the barbarian invasions, especially after Attila the Hun had destroyed the city of Altinum in 452. In 638, Torcello became the bishop’s official seat for more than a thousand years and the people of Altinum brought with them the relics of Saint Heliodorus, now the patron saint of the island.

Torcello rapidly grew in importance as a political and trading center. In pre-Medieval times, Torcello was a much more powerful trading center than Venice.

A serious issue for Torcello was that the swamp area of the lagoon around the island increased by the 14th century. Navigation in the laguna was impossible and traders ceased calling at the island. The growing swamps also seriously aggravated malaria.

As a result, by the late 14th century, a substantial number of people left the island. In 1689, the bishopric transferred to Murano, and by 1797, the population had dropped to about 300. Today it is less than 20.

Torcello's numerous palazzi, its twelve parishes, and its sixteen cloisters have almost disappeared since the Venetians recycled the useful building material.

Next to the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta (see previous uploads) is the Church of Santa Fosca. It owes its origin to the tomb of a martyr. According to tradition, the relics of the martyr Santa Fosca were brought to Torcello from the oasis of Sabrata in Libya before the year 1011. The church is a central building from the 11th century with a Greek cross in an octagon.

Torcello - Chiesa di Santa Fosca

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 21:54:07 +0000

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Venice (ital. Venezia) is one of the most important tourist destinations worldwide with about 30 million visitors each year.

I have already uploaded dozens of shots from previous visits, so I´ll try to cut down the number of uploads this time.

Torcello island at the northern end of the Venetian Lagoon. It has been referred to as the parent island from which Venice was populated. It was a town with a cathedral and bishops before St Mark's Basilica was built.

Torcello was one of the first lagoon islands to be populated by those Veneti who fled the "terra ferma" to take shelter from the barbarian invasions, especially after Attila the Hun had destroyed the city of Altinum in 452. In 638, Torcello became the bishop’s official seat for more than a thousand years and the people of Altinum brought with them the relics of Saint Heliodorus, now the patron saint of the island.

Torcello rapidly grew in importance as a political and trading center. In pre-Medieval times, Torcello was a much more powerful trading center than Venice.

A serious issue for Torcello was that the swamp area of the lagoon around the island increased by the 14th century. Navigation in the laguna was impossible and traders ceased calling at the island. The growing swamps also seriously aggravated malaria.

As a result, by the late 14th century, a substantial number of people left the island. In 1689, the bishopric transferred to Murano, and by 1797, the population had dropped to about 300. Today it is less than 20.

Torcello's numerous palazzi, its twelve parishes, and its sixteen cloisters have almost disappeared since the Venetians recycled the useful building material.

Next to the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta (see previous uploads) is the Church of Santa Fosca. It owes its origin to the tomb of a martyr. According to tradition, the relics of the martyr Santa Fosca were brought to Torcello from the oasis of Sabrata in Libya before the year 1011. The church is a central building from the 11th century with a Greek cross in an octagon.

Torcello - Chiesa di Santa Fosca

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 21:42:50 +0000

Martin M. Miles has posted:

Venice (ital. Venezia) is one of the most important tourist destinations worldwide with about 30 million visitors each year.

I have already uploaded dozens of shots from previous visits, so I´ll try to cut down the number of uploads this time.

Torcello island at the northern end of the Venetian Lagoon. It has been referred to as the parent island from which Venice was populated. It was a town with a cathedral and bishops before St Mark's Basilica was built.

Torcello was one of the first lagoon islands to be populated by those Veneti who fled the "terra ferma" to take shelter from the barbarian invasions, especially after Attila the Hun had destroyed the city of Altinum in 452. In 638, Torcello became the bishop’s official seat for more than a thousand years and the people of Altinum brought with them the relics of Saint Heliodorus, now the patron saint of the island.

Torcello rapidly grew in importance as a political and trading center. In pre-Medieval times, Torcello was a much more powerful trading center than Venice.

A serious issue for Torcello was that the swamp area of the lagoon around the island increased by the 14th century. Navigation in the laguna was impossible and traders ceased calling at the island. The growing swamps also seriously aggravated malaria.

As a result, by the late 14th century, a substantial number of people left the island. In 1689, the bishopric transferred to Murano, and by 1797, the population had dropped to about 300. Today it is less than 20.

Torcello's numerous palazzi, its twelve parishes, and its sixteen cloisters have almost disappeared since the Venetians recycled the useful building material.

Next to the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta (see previous uploads) is the Church of Santa Fosca. It owes its origin to the tomb of a martyr. According to tradition, the relics of the martyr Santa Fosca were brought to Torcello from the oasis of Sabrata in Libya before the year 1011. The church is a central building from the 11th century with a Greek cross in an octagon.

Pumenengo - Santuario della Madonna della Rotonda

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 10:29:24 +0000

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The Sanctuary of the Madonna della Rotonda, which, the work of Italian painter and architect Pellegrino Tibaldi. It was built following a Marian apparition that occurred, according to tradition, in 1585.

Pumenengo - Santuario della Madonna della Rotonda

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 09:37:54 +0000

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Kloster Doberan

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 11:55:16 +0000

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After the defeat by Henry the Lion in the Battle of Verchen in 1164, Obotrite Prince Pribislaw submitted in 1167 and was baptised. One of Henry's conditions was the obligation to spread Christianity in the country by building monasteries.

The Doberan Abbey was the first monastery founded in Mecklenburg, in 1171, as a daughter house of the cistercian Amelungsborn Abbey. The first community was massacred in 1179 in the unrest following the death of Pribislaw, and the abbey was re-founded in 1186. It became a political, social and spiritual centre in the region. The Romanesque monastery church, consecrated in 1232, was replaced after the fire of 1291 by a High Gothic church, the construction of which was probably begun in 1295. The new Gothic building was consecrated in 1368. The church was the most important burial place of the sovereign princes in the Middle Ages.

After the Reformation, the monastery was dissolluted and the properties passed to the sovereign in 1552. The relics were removed from the monastery church and the monastery facilities were partially destroyed. Duke Ulrich of Mecklenburg-Güstrow wanted to preserve the church as the burial place of the princely house and so a first restoration of the monastery church began.

The buildings were were looted and damaged in 1637 during the Thirty Years' War, and the church was used as a warehouse. During the French occupation of Mecklenburg by Napoleon from 1806 to 1813, the remaining buildings suffered further damage, and the monastery church was again used as a warehouse. Restorations took place from 1883 to 1896 and from 1962 to 1976.

The Cistercians had good relations with France, from where the architecture of the former monastery church was strongly influenced. The vaulted nave is 76 metres long, 11 metres wide and 26 metres high.

The octogonal charnel house was built around 1250 in early Gothic style in the former cemetery north of the church. The bones of deceased monks whose graves were newly occupied were kept here. The chapel stands above the ossuary cellar.

Vichy - Notre-Dame-des-Malades

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 19:32:17 +0000

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The place was founded by the Romans at springs already used by them.

In 1344, Duke Pierre I de Bourbon obtained the possession of the lands. In 1410, a monastery of the Benedictines was founded here. In 1527, the Bourbon possessions reverted to the French crown. At the end of the 16th century, the first patients came to Vichy for the healing springs, which were soon considered to be true "miracle springs".

The springs of Vichy became famous thanks to the Marquise de Sevigné, who came here for a cure in 1676 and 1677. She praised its healing properties. In 1761, two daughters of Louis XV came here for a cure. Their nephew, Louis XVI, had a new bath complex built at the springs in 1787. Napoleon's mother stayed here for a cure in 1799. It is attributed to her influence that the emperor had the "Parc de Sources" laid out in 1812. In 1830, the spa house was inaugurated. Napoleon III made Vichy his summer residence for several years. The town became a fashionable spa for the international aristocracy.

From 1899 to 1903 following the construction of the Centre Thermal of the Dome with the drinking hall, a 700-meter-long ambulatory and a bath in oriental style were erected. Around 1900, 40,000 spa guests per year came to Vichy, and shortly before World War I, the number was nearly 100,000.

During World War II, the town became the headquarters of the French Vichy regime under Philippe Pétain.

After the war, Vichy resumed spa operations and once again acquired the title of "Reine des villes d'eaux" ("Queen of Spas"). But that changed in the 1970s, when the celebrities among the bathers preferred other resorts.

In Merovingian times, a chapel existed here. Destroyed in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th century, it became the Saint-Blaise church, when it was throughout altered and enlarged from 1672 to 1714.

When the tourist numbers grew after WWI Saint-Blaise, enlarged already in the 19th century, was definitely too small and a new church was commissioned.

The Art Deco style was chosen for the new church named "Notre-Dame-des-Malades". Its construction by the architects Antoine Chanet and Jean Lioger took place from 1925 to 1937. The church got consecrated already in 1931, but the tower was not finished until 1956. The interior decorations and stained glass windows were done by the Mauméjean brothers.

The construction was possible by using concrete and tons of steel.

Vichy - Notre-Dame-des-Malades

nobody@ipernity.com (Martin M. Miles) — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 19:25:56 +0000

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