Archive for the tag 'France'
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Resident of Carcassonne
14 Comments CherryPie on Jul 9th 2012
All that you send into the lives of others comes back into your own.
Edwin Markham (1852- 1940)
16 Comments CherryPie on Jul 8th 2012
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The Inquisition
I invite you to join me at Vision & Verb where I talk about the Museum of Torture that I visited whilst I was in Carcassonne. It displayed the instruments of torture that were used in the middle ages. The museum focused in detail on the Albigensian crusades and the Inquisition and left visitors with [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 8th 2012
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Archway
16 Comments CherryPie on Jul 5th 2012
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Basilique Saint-Nazaire-et-Saint-Celse
12 Comments CherryPie on Jul 4th 2012
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A Gargoyle or Two
21 Comments CherryPie on Jul 3rd 2012
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Architecture 100 :: 22 – Basilique Saint-Nazaire-et-Saint-Celse
The Basilique Saint-Nazaire-et-Saint-Celse de Carcassonne was formerly the cathedral of Carcassonne. In 1801 it was replaced by the present Carcassonne Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Michel de Carcassonne).
The present church is in origin a Romanesque of the 11th century, consecrated by Pope Urban II in 1096. It was built on the site of a Carolingian cathedral, of [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 2nd 2012
