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Montmartre art (Paris)
Montmartre is a hill 130 metres high, in the north of Paris in the 18th arrondissement, a part of the Right Bank, primarily known for the white-domed Basilica of the Sacré Cœur on its summit and as a nightclub district.
- Date: 8 December 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Paris, France: gallery
- Tags: art montmartre (paris)
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L'Arc de Triomphe (Paris)
This symbol of French victory was commissioned by Napoleon and completed in 1836. Adorned with sculpture and the names of military successes, the enormous arch features a small museum and rooftop viewing platform. At its base is the tomb of the unknown soldier. The arch sits at the center of place Charles de Gaulle (formerly place d'Etoile), a square that branches off into twelve avenues. It also offers great views southeast down the Champs-Elysées to the Louvre and northwest towards La Défense. Pedestrian access is most safely gained via the pedestrian tunnel from the north side of the Champs Elysées.
- Date: 8 December 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Paris, France: gallery
- Tags: de (paris) l'arc triomphe
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Metropolitain (Paris)
The Paris Métro (French: Métro de Paris) is the rapid transit system in Paris, France. It is a symbol of the city, notable for its homogeneous architecture, influenced by Art Nouveau. It has 16 lines, mostly underground, and a total length of 213km (133 miles). There are 298 stations. Since some are on more than one line, there are 382 stops.
- Date: 27 November 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Paris, France: gallery
- Tags: (paris) metropolitain
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Eiffel Tower (Paris)
At night, the tower becomes a beautifully illuminated sculpture. Gustave Eiffel, who designed the tower, also created the framework for NYC's Statue of Liberty.
- Date: 27 November 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Paris, France: gallery
- Tags: tower eiffel (paris)
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Notre-Dame (Paris)
One of the most recognizable historic and religious sites in the world, Notre-Dame de Paris is a Gothic landmark and the city's spiritual home. Built between the 12th and 14th centuries, it's a vision of stone, stained glass and history.
- Date: 27 November 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Paris, France: gallery
- Tags: (paris) notre-dame
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Montmartre street artist (Paris)
Many artists had studios or worked around the community of Montmartre such as Salvador Dalí, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh.
- Date: 27 November 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Paris, France: gallery
- Tags: street artist montmartre (paris)
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Spello (Umbria, Italy)
Spello is an ancient town and comune of Italy, in the province of Perugia in east central Umbria, on the lower southern flank of Mt. Subasio.
- Date: 18 August 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Assisi, Italy: gallery
- Tags: italy) (umbria spello
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Spello (Umbria, Italy)
Spello is an ancient town and comune of Italy, in the province of Perugia in east central Umbria, on the lower southern flank of Mt. Subasio.
- Date: 18 August 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Assisi, Italy: gallery
- Tags: italy) (umbria spello
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Assisi (Umbria, Italy)
Assisi was hit by the devastating twin earthquakes that shook Umbria in 1997, but the recovery and restoration have been remarkable, although much remains to be done. Massive damage was caused to many historical sites, but the major attraction, the Basilica di San Francesco, reopened less than two years later.
- Date: 18 August 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Assisi, Italy: gallery
- Tags: assisi italy) (umbria
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Assisi (Umbria, Italy)
Assisi is a town in Italy in province of Perugia, Italy, in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Mt. Subasio. It is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare (Chiara d'Offreducci), the founder of the Poor Clares. Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows of the 19th century was also born in Assisi.
- Date: 18 August 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Assisi, Italy: gallery
- Tags: assisi italy) (umbria
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Valley (Umbria, Italy)
Umbria is a region of Central Italy, bordered by Tuscany to the west, the Marche to the east and Lazio to the south. This region is mostly hilly or mountainous. Its topography is dominated by the Apennines to the east, with the highest point in the region at Monte Vettore on the border of the Marche (2476 m = 8123 ft), and the Tiber valley basin, with the lowest point at Attigliano (96 m = 315 ft).
- Date: 18 August 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Assisi, Italy: gallery
- Tags: valley italy) (umbria
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Assisi (Umbria, Italy)
Now the site of many a pilgrimage, Assisi is linked in legend with its native son, St. Francis. The gentle saint founded the Franciscan order and shares honors with St. Catherine of Siena as the patron saint of Italy. He is remembered by many, even non-Christians, as a lover of nature (his preaching to an audience of birds is one of the legends of his life).
- Date: 18 August 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Assisi, Italy: gallery
- Tags: assisi italy) (umbria
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San Leo (Italy)
The time of the fortress's first constrction is unknown, but surely it was during the Longobard age. The old body of the fortress dates to the time of the Malatestas, who restored and modified it. However, only under Federico the fortress underwent substantial changes. This happened around the second half of the 1470s at the same time of the fortress of Cagli, or at least few years before.
- Date: 26 May 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: San Leo, Italy: gallery
- Tags: san leo (italy)
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Gradara (Italy)
Legend has it that the castle was the scene of the famous and tragic love story of Paolo and Francesca, caught in each other's arms and killed by Gianciotto, Francesca's husband. This love story was immortalized by Dante in his Divine Comedy.
- Date: 26 May 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Gradara, Italy: gallery
- Tags: (italy) gradara
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Gradara (Italy)
The whole perimeter of the walls were run by communication trenches. At the western corner the town wall was reinforced by a stout poligonal bastion, the rocchetta.
- Date: 20 May 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Gradara, Italy: gallery
- Tags: (italy) gradara
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Paestum (Italy)
Paestum is the classical Roman name of a major Graeco-Roman city in the Campania region of Italy. It is located in the north of Cilento, near the coast about 85 km SE of Naples in the province of Salerno, and belongs to the commune of Capaccio.
- Date: 1 August 2006
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Naples, Italy: gallery
- Tags: paestum (italy)
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Tyndaris (Sicily, Italy)
Tyndaris was situated on a bold and lofty hill standing out as a promontory into the spacious bay of the Tyrrhenian Sea bounded by the Punta di Milazzo on the east, and the Capo Calavià on the west, and was distant according to the Itineraries 36 miles from Messana (modern Messina). It was a Greek city, and one of the latest of all the cities in Sicily that could claim a purely Greek origin, having been founded by the elder Dionysius in 396 or 395 BCE.
- Date: 1 August 2006
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Cefalù, Italy: gallery
- Tags: (sicily italy) tyndaris
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Solunto (Sicily. Italy)
Solunto was an ancient city of Sicily, one of the three chief Phoenician settlements in the island, situated on the north coast, about 18 km east of Panormus (modern Palermo), and immediately to the east of the bold promontory called Capo Zafferano.
- Date: 1 August 2006
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Cefalù, Italy: gallery
- Tags: italy) solunto (sicily.
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Solunto (Sicily. Italy)
t lay 200 m above sea level, on the southeast side of Monte Catalfano (380 m), in a naturally strong situation, and commanding a fine view. Some scholars contend that Soluntum and Solus were two different cities at close quarters, Soluntum, higher upon the hillside, being a later habitation displacing the earlier settlement of Solus, at a lower elevation. Its current site is at the località of Solanto in the comune of Santa Flavia.
- Date: 1 August 2006
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Cefalù, Italy: gallery
- Tags: italy) solunto (sicily.
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Solunto (Sicily. Italy)
Soluntum was one of the few colonies that the Phoenicians retained when they gave way before the advance of the Greek colonies in Sicily, and withdrew to the northwest corner of the island.
- Date: 1 August 2006
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Cefalù, Italy: gallery
- Tags: italy) solunto (sicily.
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The cloister of the abbey of Monreale (Sicily, Italy)
Monks' dormitory and frater, and the splendid cloister, completed about 1200 is well preserved, and is one of the finest Italian cloisters both for size and beauty of detail now extant. It is about 16 m², with pointed arches decorated with diaper work, supported on pairs of columns in white marble, 216 in all, which were alternately plain and decorated by bands of patterns in gold and colors, made of glass tesserae, arranged either spirally or vertically from end to end of each shaft.
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The Cathedral of Monreale (Sicily, Italy)
The Cathedral of Monreale is the greatest of all the monuments of the wealth and artistic taste of the Norman kings in northern Sicily. It was begun about 1170 by William II, and in 1182 the church, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, was, by a bull of Pope Lucius III, elevated to the rank of a metropolitan cathedral. The church is a national monument of Italy and one of the most important artistical attractions of Sicily.
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Let's go for a ride! (Sicily, Italy)
Vespa has evolved from a single model motor scooter manufactured in 1946 by Piaggio & Co. S.p.A. of Pontedera, Italy -- to a full line of scooters and one of seven companies today owned by Piaggio -- now Europe's largest manufacturer of two-wheeled vehicles and the world's fourth largest motorcycle manufacturer by unit sales.
- Date: 1 August 2006
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Cefalù, Italy: gallery
- Tags: a for let's (sicily italy) go ride!
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From sea to Heaven! (Sicily, Italy)
The Mediterranean is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia. It covers an approximate area of 2.5 million km² (965,000 sq mi), but its connection to the Atlantic (the Strait of Gibraltar) is only 14 km (9 mi) wide. In oceanography, it is sometimes called the Eurafrican Mediterranean Sea or the European Mediterranean Sea to distinguish it from mediterranean seas elsewhere.
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I'm not selling it! (Cefalu, Sicilia, Italy)
On Saturdays there is a market, mercato, where you can buy food, vegetables, clothes, etc.