We got absolutely soaked on our day trip to Hay-on-Wye. Just after lunch the heavens opened and we were drenched by rain of Biblical proportions. Driving home was a little tricky to start with due to standing water on the country lanes.
Wearing soggy trousers made me feel unclean so when we got home I had [...]
Archive for September, 2024
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Watery Wales
12 Comments CherryPie on Sep 21st 2024
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Triton Fountain
Represented on the valves of a huge shell, with the erect torso and scaly legs of a sea monster, the Triton stands imposingly with his head bent back in an effort to blow into the large buccina (or twisted shell) that he supports with his arms raised upwards and from which the water that irrigates [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Sep 19th 2024
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Fountain of the Bees
Its original location was on the corner of Palazzo Soderini, between Piazza Barberini and Via Sistina. In one of the rooms on the ground floor of the building, Bernini had in fact designed a “booty” for water, that is, a system to collect the return water from the Triton fountain, which he had designed a [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Sep 18th 2024
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Fountain of the Naiads
The Fountain of the Naiads is located at the centre of the Piazza della Repubblica on the Viminal Hill. The fountain basin is circular and made of concrete. It includes a high central water jet and a number of lateral jets.[2] At night, the fountain is illuminated by LED lights.[3]
Around the basin are four bronze sculptures depicting naiads, who [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Sep 16th 2024
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the week
A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman
6 Comments CherryPie on Sep 15th 2024
Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri was designed by Michelangelo and is the only Renaissance style church in Rome.
The temple, located very near Piazza della Repubblica, is one of the most surprising and unique in the city thanks to its ruined façade that contrasts with its vast and sensational interior.
The site where Santa Maria [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Sep 12th 2024
