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In reply to the discussion: Here’s a wonder of a Friday Afternoon Challenge for you: That’s SO Medieval! [View all]CTyankee
(63,769 posts)69. cool stuff. I have actually been to that cathedral back in 2005.
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I loved Sicily and tell people to go there. There is so much history! If you don't care much for the Greek, Roman, Moorish, Norman stuff, you can skip over to WW2. We still have a Navy and Air Force presence on the island, near the not so great city of Catania.
go to Agrigento and Erice. To Taormina and Siricusa. The Madonie mountains.
Palermo is a terrific city, world class. big opera house. Great food. A sea front fish market that is huge and just wonderful.
I had a 2 week excursion there and was just amazed.
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Here’s a wonder of a Friday Afternoon Challenge for you: That’s SO Medieval! [View all]
CTyankee
Feb 2012
OP
It was Islamic influenced, European, hilly and I guess semi-arid. But not Greece.
CTyankee
Feb 2012
#44
Islamic art was spread in other parts...this is one of those parts with quite a history in
CTyankee
Feb 2012
#41
Giselbertus is fascinating, I agree. "Gislebertus hoc fecit" is actually on this image, but in very
CTyankee
Feb 2012
#22
that is interesting. I thought there was only one cathedral in each place...hmm...
CTyankee
Feb 2012
#23
So many of these old cathedrals got destroyed, burnt down or otherwise done in...and then they
CTyankee
Feb 2012
#50
wow, I never even saw that! I wonder, too. I've been there but it was pretty dark inside
CTyankee
Feb 2012
#11
ha. you'd be surprised at how much Disney animators studied French castles to come up with their
CTyankee
Feb 2012
#15
Peaceful is the word for Ravenna! At least from my small perspective being there for only
CTyankee
Feb 2012
#40
Interesting -- I looked up the image of the church and suddenly recognized it
Generic Other
Feb 2012
#36
The church down the street from my house was modelled after the one in ravenna
Generic Other
Feb 2012
#46
Part of it I get...I guess the rest of it is something I can't quite see...did the church have
CTyankee
Feb 2012
#48
Because it is. But it is not in the Alhambra...the moorish influence reached beyond its own shores..
CTyankee
Feb 2012
#49
It is Amiens Cathedral, a wonderful place where laser light shows reveal the colors that the
CTyankee
Feb 2012
#72