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Filed under Faith Foundations, Gardens, Holidays, Newcastle & Crookham 2013
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
18 Comments CherryPie on Jan 5th 2014
Filed under Holidays, Newcastle & Crookham 2013, Science & Nature
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
The true knowledge of music is nothing other than this: to know the ordering of all separate things and how the Divine Reason has distributed them; for this ordering of all separate things into one, achieved by skillful reason, makes the sweetest and truest harmony with the Divine Song.
Hermes Trismegitus
8 Comments CherryPie on Dec 22nd 2013
Filed under Faith Foundations, Holidays, Lucerne 2013
St Peter’s Chapel
Just before we depart from Lucerne and move onto Christmassy things I will show you St Peter’s Chapel which is the last place we visited on our day of departure.
St Peter’s Chapel is a Lucerne landmark and of considerable historical importance. It is Lucerne’s oldest church and was built in 1178 when a priest was [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Dec 20th 2013
Filed under Art, Holidays, Lucerne 2013
Rosengart Collection
The Rosengart Collection (property of a foundation established by Angela Rosengart in 1992) has been accessible to the public in its entirety – f0r the first time ever – since March 2002. The collection, which comprises some 220 works and focuses primarily on French painting from 1870 to the 20th century, is presented over an [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 19th 2013
Filed under Art, Lucerne 2013
Bourbaki Panorama Lucerne
The Bourbaki Panorama is the best example I have seen of this type of artwork.
The 112 x 10 m large-scale panorama depicts the French Army of the East under General Bourbaki crossing the border into Switzerland and being disarmed in February 1871. The picture is complimented by 21 figures that tell the soldiers’ story. Sound [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Dec 18th 2013
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The Old Town Walls – The Clock Tower
The oldest city clock built by Hans Luter in 1535 is on the Zyt tower. This clock is privileged to chime every hour one minute before all the other city clocks. Unique collection of old tower clocks (1526 t0 1820) is in Lucerne’s clock tower. Experience the huge clock face and rhythmic movements of the [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 17th 2013
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Lucerne 2013
Lucerne – The Old Town Walls
Part of the rampart walls that were built in 1386 survive almost entirely intact. Three of the wall towers are open to the public.
16 Comments CherryPie on Dec 16th 2013
