The theme for our travel pics this week is C for Churches. Today, it’s The Cathedral de Notre Dame, in Paris. This is the western facade … and it’s impressive. But for a truly astounding piece of architecture, check out the eastern facade athttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre_Dame_de_Paris#/media/File:Notre_Dame_de_Paris,_East_View_140207_1.jpg with its extraordinary Flying Buttresses – amongst the first in the…
The theme for our travel pics this week is C for Churches. Today, it’s First Church of Otago, in New Zealand. This landmark in Dunedin is one of the most impressive of New Zealand’s 19th century churches, and was built to serve the largely Presbyterian citizens of the Scottish-settled city. It dominates Dunedin, and can be…
The theme for our travel pics this week is C for Churches Today, it’s a sweet little church, call Saint James at Avebury. I’m an Australian. We’ve only had European settlement (and hence, permanent structures) here for about 230 years. So to find a little church, in a little village, that has been standing for more than a…
The theme for our travel pics this week is C for Churches.. Today, we are in England – at Salisbury Cathedral. This church is more than 750 years old, and is one of the best remaining examples of Early English Gothic architecture. It’s only about 15km from what may have been an earlier religious…
The theme for our travel pics this week is C for Churches. Today, it’s the Basilica Cathedral of Santa María la Menor in Zona Colonial, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. This is the oldest cathedral in the Americas – begun just 20 years after Christopher Columbus stumbled across the West Indies, while searching for Japan. This shot…
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