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Churches and
monasteries
How many churches alone in Europe would there be? I estimate some ten
thousands!! How strange that some politicians want to 'scratch' out in
official documents that christianity is one of the main elements
in European history!!
In recent years
my wife and I have been visiting Spain quite often. Enjoying and
photographing so many cathedrals, like in Malaga, Morella and Valencia,
but also many parish churches. See new page about Churches
and Monasteries of Spain This year, 2007, we made a trip through
south Bohemia in Czech. May I ask your attention for churches and
monasteries, like the pilgrimage church in Pribram! Or the John the
Baptist-church in Jindrichuv Hradec and many more.
But
also so many cathedrals or even ruins in the UK, like Wells, Bath,
Norwich, Durham, Salesbury etc. What about France, where the Gothic
architecture started?! Not only Paris, but also Chartres, showing
Gothicism at it's best, Amiens, Reims and Beauvaix with the highest
choir in the world with more than 50 meters!!
Altar-pieces in
the choir or side chapels, unrevealed pieces of art and strong believe!
Like in the 'Iglesia del Carmen' in Antequere in Spain. Just see the
album of the page 'travelling'.
2008 - We made a city trip and visited some fine cathedrals and other
churches in San Sebastian, Burgos, Salamanca, Avila,Segovia, Madrid,
Toledo, Cuenca, Valencia again. See the reports in the albums, left side!!
Unforgettable!! See new page: Churches
and Monasteries of Spain
In july 2009 we visited the
very interesting city of Verona in northern Italy. So many magnificent
churches there are here - worthy to visit again soon! Now the very old
basilica of San Zeno in 2 albums.
September 2009 - just 1 day in Salzburg, Austria, the church-city 'par
excellence' so many interesting churches, like the famous cathedral.
Barock in its best performance! In 4 continuing albums.
May-June 2010 - Tenerife, one
of the Canary Islands. Also here some interesting churches.
Early summer 2010 we
visited the Dolomites in South Tyrol. What an impressive mountainous
region of unequalled beauty! But also worth a visit of the many nice
churches, and certainly the finest basilica of South Tyrol:Kloster
(monastery) and basilica Neustift. And the Minster of Brixen with
the Frauenkirche. Nice old city. And many other churches!!
And last fall and spring 2010\2011 new churches and monasteries in
Northeast\Southeast Spain. Magnificent churches and ruins worth to visit!!
Now in 10 new albums. See new page: Churches
and Monasteries of Spain
July 2011: churches in Switzerland\Graubünden and
Austria\Tyrol. So
many and so interesting!!
September 2011: A trip
through West-Bohemia, Czech Republic, with many impressive
churches and monasteries!!
May 2012: Scotland - Edinburgh - the St. Giles cathedral with the
famous stained glass-windows!!
I could go on
like this pages long, but I don't want to tire you with it. I invite you
to admire with me the pictures in many albums.
Fall 2012: churches of the Spanish Pyrenees, see: Churches
and Monasteries of Spain
Now, January 2013 developed: Barcelona 2010 in Spain: Cathedral
in 3 albums
and Girona
cathedral in 2 albums.
September 2013 churches
of Croatia-Dalmatia.
Spring, April 2014: churches and cathedrals
in Istria, Croatia, Slovenic Istria and Trieste, Italy. For instance
the famous cathedral of Eufrasiana in Porec, UNESCO World Heritage!!
September 2014 Trip through Czech Moravia - so much to see, old cities
like Znojmo, Kromeriz, Olomouc etc. And castles, Palaces and so many
fine churches. In 31 albums all together.
June 2015 France the region around Rocamadour, Dordogne-Lot and
the cathedral of Orléans.
Rocamadour - Hospitalet - Martel - Collonges-la-Rouge and
Sarlat-la-Canéda.
Fall 2015 we
were in the Black Forst agalin, in Germany. Just across the border in
Switzerland the churches of Laufenburg end Schaffhausen.
In February-March
2016 again in the Algarve in South-Portugal. What a beautiful coastal
landscape!!
But also interesting churches. In 8 albums.
And April-May 2016
a trip through Roumania with exceptional churches and cathedrals. In 15
albums.
February 2017 Again a
trip to Portugal, Algarve and Alentejo
May-June 2017: a trip
through the Ardèche in France with several nice churches.
June 2018: Nature and
culture are well found in France, like in the northwest in Amiens,
Beauvais and Rouen. cathedrals of great importance and very interesting
with their mediaval stained glass windows or of modern art. The highest
church the cathedral in Beauvails with more than 46 meters.
Also many great cathedrals and churches
in French Brittany like Tréguier, Guingamp, Dol-de-Bretagne, Dinan,
Moncontour etc. In 66 (!!) albums and more than 1.500 photos. Enjoy
culture at high level!!
September
2019: a wonderful trip through the old duchy of
Burgundy. Tge county of wine, hills, old cities and impressive churches
and abbeys. I took thousands of photos, of which I selected and present
now in 88 (!!) albums wlith about 2.200 photos. How much time it did
cost me!! Just for you, lover of art and history of building churches
and monasteries. Take a look and enjoy my pictures!!
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