This week, our Travel pics series is B for Barbados. Barbados, like many Caribbean countries, has a deep, rich religious history – and there are a number of churches that have become tourist attractions in their own right. St James’, St John’s, St Lucy’s .. they were all first built in the 1600s – but fires and…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is up to Q – so we’ve chosen Quiet Reflections. For Friday, we’re in Corfu, and looking at Pontikonisi (Mouse) Island. The island (created by Zeus from the overturned boat of Odysseus, according to legend) hosts a Byzantine chapel – which you can just make out between the…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is up to Q – so we’ve chosen Quiet Reflections. To start the week off, a church bell in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. We stayed in the Zona Colonial (Old Town) of Santo Domingo over Easter 2015, and it was an interesting insight into a deeply Catholic country –…
The theme for our travel pics this week is K for Kotor – and we return today to Our Lady of the Rock church, in Kotor Bay near Perast. This church is built on a man-made island – after the discovery of a holy relic on a rock outcrop in the 1400, sailors began…
The theme for our travel pics this week is K for Kotor – and for Friday, it’s the Franciscan Church of St Clara, in old Kotor town. Many of the churches in the region are, of course, Orthodox churches – but in Kotor stands St Clara’s, a church built by (and for) the Franciscan monks in the…
The theme for our travel pics this week is K for Kotor – and for Wednesday, its the waterfront at Perast, on Kotor Bay a few kilometres from Kotor itself. The city has sixteen Baroque palaces, two Orthodox churches, and seventeen Catholic ones including St Nicholas’ – seen here – which has the highest campanile, or…
The theme for our travel pics this week (and a bit) is I, for Italy. One of the things that you find, when you visit Rome, is that you can aim your camera almost at random, and get a great picture. This one, for example, is of the ‘Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus…
The theme for our travel pics this week is C for Churches. Today, it’s St Thomas and St Edmunds, in the heart of Salisbury, UK. We showed you an image of Salisbury Cathedral earlier this week – but this (much smaller) church is actually just as interesting. It was the church built to serve the workmen who…
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…
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