After breakfast we made our way to Arundel in order to visit the castle. The lady who sold us our tickets helped us choose the most economical way to purchase tickets given that we were able to claim discounts. She advised us to visit the gardens first and then make our way to the shop [...]
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Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Kent & Chichester 2018
Kent & Chichester Day Five
8 Comments CherryPie on Jul 11th 2018
St Martin’s is now a haven of calm in the heart of York, but in 1942 it was reduced to a smouldering ruin during a bombing raid on the city. The church stood desolate until restoration work began in 1961.
The clock, first fitted in 1668, and the gilded head of Father Time are replacements [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 27th 2018
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Ravello 2017
The Church of St. James
The Church, dedicated to St. James, is preceded by the pronaos, with the beautiful portal and the fresco of Florentine Niccolo di Tommaso depicting Giacomo Arcucci offers the Charterhouse to the Madonna, of 1371.
At the Centre of the painting, the Madonna on the throne with child, on the left of the one who looks at [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Apr 25th 2018
Santo Stefano is a Catholic church and former cathedral on the island of Capri, Italy. Dedicated to Saint Stephen, it is the principal house of worship in the town of Capri.[1] The religious complex was built around the Piazza Umberto Isquare in the seventeenth century. The archbishop’s palace is now used as the town hall (“Municipio”).[2] Santo Stefano and Chiesa di San Costanzo [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Apr 16th 2018
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Duomo di Salerno
The Duomo (Cathedral) of Salerno is dedicated to St. Matthew the Evangelist and was founded at the request of Robert Guiscard in 1076, the year that the Normans conquered the town of Salerno after a 7 month siege.
The current entrance, flanked with a sculptured lion and lioness is a modification of the former medieval entrance. [...]
22 Comments CherryPie on Mar 20th 2018
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San Pietro in Vinculis
8 Comments CherryPie on Mar 9th 2018
[The Church] was built in 1163 and dedicated to S. Matteo del Pendolo until 1727, but already in 1733 it is called S. Maria delle Grazie; the structure has three naves, divided by two round arches on each side, supported by columns with bare, triaxed capitals (on the outside the apses are isolated by two [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 29th 2018
