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11 juin 2007

Street of the vat

It owes its name with the vat established about 1550 on the current quay Voltaire and which was used for the XVIth century for transporting the the blocks of stone intended for construction of the palate of Tuileries, while crossing the Seine with the...

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11 juin 2007

Standing stones of Stenness

“This didn' T immediately “wow” me like I thought it would. It wasn' T that I was disappointed exactly goal I didn' T get that “buzz”. Closed It was only when I got up very to the individual stones, particularly the really wafer thin one, that this place...

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11 juin 2007

The stone circle of Brodgar

In the sky of winter of Brodgar at night one can see the constellation of Orion to the top of the stones… Welcome in this place, him which sent dreams to me since so a long time. Dreams of take-off, dreams so real that the life offered the gift to be...

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11 juin 2007

The circle O' Bookan

This place is far from known. It is nevertheless presented like the third stone circle. It is located at the Western North/of Brodgar, to approximately 1,6 km. It is composed of a ditch surrounding a raised central platform, in which are still held of...

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11 juin 2007

Comet stone

The stone comet is with 140 meters in the south of the circle of Brodgar. It measures 1m75 top and is held on an oval platform of approximately 14 meters diameter. This monolith seems to have formed part formerly of another group of stones forming procession...

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11 juin 2007

stones of the way…

It is probable that a marked out stone route éxisté between the circles of Brodgar and Stenness, as these menhirs show it posed all with length. Several are without private properties, but they very well are seen road. Of this alignment part the stone...

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11 juin 2007

Stone of Barnhouse

Barnhouse is a solitary monolith covered by the lichens. It is in the environment close to Maeshowe, not far from the stone cecle of Stenness. It very well is seen road leading of Finstown to Stromness, on the line. It belongs to alignment Western East/with...

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11 juin 2007

Watchstone

The named stone “Watchstone” is a giant (5m 60 top) posed at the edge of the road which connects Stennes and Brodgar, at the entry of the thin strip of land which forms an isthmus between the Lakes Stenness and Harray. (fresh water and salted water lakes)....

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11 juin 2007

Tomb of Eagles, the Orkneys

As for the majority of the prehistoric monuments of the Orkneys, the discovery of the cairn of Isbister, more known under the name of tomb of the eagles, was purely accidental. The cairn was discovered by a local farmer, Ronald Simison, in 1958.Impassioned...

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11 juin 2007

Cathedral Saint Magnus, Kirkwall

The Orkneys (Orkney Islands in English) are an archipelago located at the north of Scotland. This archipelago counts 67 slightly undulating islands, from which 16 only are inhabited. The 20.000 Orcadiens live for the majority on the principal island,...

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11 juin 2007

Murat and the black virgin

The city, located in the valley of Alagnon, is blottie with the foot of the Eastern buttresses of the solid mass of the Cantal In the middle of the Chantillian Volcano (the largest Stratovolcano of Europe with 2.700 km ² of surface) the site of Murat...

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11 juin 2007

Bredons

Michel Rouche, professor of medieval history in the Sorbonne, held a conference on the topic: “15 centuries of history of Bredons”. A marked out history of internal fights, competitions for the division of the capacity and the privileges.Thus it specified...

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11 juin 2007

The triptych of the Master of Moulins

The treasure of the cathedral has, in the sacristy of the chapter, celebrates it triptych of the Virgin in glory (about 1501) of the “Master of Mills”, whose identity remains unknown in spite of various attributions of which that of the museum of Louvre...

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11 juin 2007

Cathedral Notre-Dame de Moulins

The first mention of dwellings in a place naming Moulins goes up to 990.Mills became capital duchy of Bourbon, with the detriment of Souvigny, starting from the accession with the duchy, in 1488, of Pierre II (1438-1503), said Pierre de Beaujeu, husband...

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11 juin 2007

Notre-Dame of Montluçon

Montlucon The foundation of city PERT in a fog of uncertainties which sees it appearing according to an assumption of archaeologist in Celtic quartering…What is sure is that in these moved back times where the Roman empire brought its majestic splendour...

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11 juin 2007

The place of the fountain

The fountain located at the center of the place is typical public fountains of XVIème century. Its tank supported by an octagonal pilmier emerging from a basin with eight sides is surmounted by its lid of origin. Its food came from a source collected...

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11 juin 2007

Saint Rigaud

“The Country Beaujolais wine is not miserly points of view which seize you the eye and do not let the heart of their beauty, and you any more turn over to the banal world. Most famous of these panoramas, with any lord, embrassable is that top of the Mount...

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11 juin 2007

Saint Michael's Mount

Saint Michael's Mount….Who didn't dream of him? Reflexions after a visit with the mount of a fellow traveller… Calou, we miss you! “Dragon of the Sky, Dragon of the Earth ..... or a dream of dragon to sweep the apparent Manicheism of the principal representations...

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11 juin 2007

Crowned geography of the Michael's Mount

One can note that many old places of worship dedicated before to Anubis were it then in Gargantua, Lug-Hermès-Mercury, Apollo-Bélénos, then in the Michaelmas to finish. the principal sanctuaries which are dedicated to him align according to a direction...

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11 juin 2007

Tombelaine

Contemporaries of the Armorican solid mass, the rocks of the Holy Mount Michel and Tombelaine appeared approximately five hundred million years ago. Resulting from crumpling hercynien, these two granulite cones, which answers the Dol mount a few kilometres...

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11 juin 2007

The abbey

It was cut down by three spans and was closed of a new neo-classic frontage in 1780. On the terrase which remains in the place of the three spans, one still can mesurerles three points of lowering marking the passage of the Jordan and the entry in the...

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11 juin 2007

The crypt of the large pillars

Built of 1446 to 1450 on the site of the Romance crypt éffondrée in 1421.Les pillars are 10, with a circumference of 6m. They sat with same the rock. The pointed arches are connected low on the barrels of the columns, by group of three, like going to...

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11 juin 2007

The cloister

Arranged between 1217 and 1228, it and of trapezoidal form. The southern side communicates with the abbey one whereas the side is dessert the refectory and the kitchens. In the west, it would have to be pressed on a chapter house which built forever....

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11 juin 2007

The Notre-Dame cathedral and Saint-Privat in Mende

The area is an old site of settlement going up at the age of bronze, but the city strictly speaking dates only from the Middle Ages. (Viculus Mimatensis, drawn from the Mimât Mount where the hermitage of Privat Saint is). the mountain of Gévaudan was...

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11 juin 2007

The black virgin of Mende

This virgin with the Byzantine lines, the cross ones would have brought it back the East by Guillaume de Peyre between between 1212 and 1222, where the monks of the Carmel mount, heirs to Isaïe, would have carved it in a very hard wood, (perhaps of the...

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