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Welcome back to National Parks & other public lands with T! If you are seeing this on Twitter or Facebook, please visit the blog to see all of the photos and read the story by clicking the link. Saint Benedict’s, also known as The Painted Church, is an active Catholic Church in Honaunau on the […]
via St. Benedict’s Painted Church: NRHP — National Parks USA
This literally open air steel sculpture is a fascinating and thought-provoking work of art
via The See-Through Church of Borgloon — Discovering Belgium
A trip to Milan is not complete without a visit to see Leonardo da Vinci’s world renowned artwork, The Last Supper. This fresco painted on the walls of the dining room of the former Dominican monastery, Santa Maria delle Grazie, depicts Jesus’ last supper with his apostles. It is one of the Western world’s most…
via ELE Art & Culture – Leonardo da Vinci’s Masterpiece, The Last Supper in Milan —
After a grey day on Wednesday, Thursday was forecast to be a scorcher, and so it transpired. We’d decided to drive over the Menai Straits and make use of our Cadw memberships by visiting Caernarfon Castle. This is probably the most impressive of all the castles that Edward I had built following his subjugation of […]
Even on a really busy day when the centre of the toon is hotching with cruise ship visitors and Orcadians out shopping it remains a place of peace and tranquility.
“Don Quixote is the national glory of Spain. No one who does not know that has the right to call himself a Spaniard. There is a monument to him in Madrid…he was our first revolutionary.” – Gerald Brenan, ‘South from Granada’ Click on an image to scroll through the Gallery of pictures that I have […]
via Travels in Spain, The Don Quixote Collection — Have Bag, Will Travel
Architect I.M. Pei smiles for a photo after being honored with an Ellis Island Family Heritage Award at the Ellis Island Museum in New York City on April 21, 2004. (Credit: Paul Hawthorne / Getty Images) I.M. Pei (PAY), the versatile, globe-trotting architect who revived the Louvre with a giant glass pyramid and captured the…
via I.M. Pei, Architect Who Designed Louvre Pyramid, Dies at 102 — KTLA
#Medieval Church, #Yorkshire, #England
via Medieval Church, Yorkshire, England — Documented Wanderlust
At just over three kilometres (two miles) long, York’s beautifully-preserved walls are the longest medieval town walls in England.
via York City Walls – England’s Longest Medieval Town Walls — Uncover Travel
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