Tag: church
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A Day With Our Lady of Paris
We arrived in Paris yesterday and decided to spend what turned out to be a rainy day learning all about Notre Dame, since Quasimodo was prominent among the many popular cultural references for Paris: both Disney’s (and before that, Victor Hugo’s) Hunchback of Notre Dame. We began with a Discover Walks tour, which introduced us…
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Orvieto: A Day Trip from Rome
Diane arranged for us to have a day at Orvieto, which is about two hours north of Rome in the Etruscan countryside. Atop a hill sits the Orvieto Cathedral, built in the 1300s – 1400s with Travertine striped stone. The city itself sits high on a cliff, as it was built on volcanic rock…
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A Day at the Vatican
First, some jokey pictures of the night before we went to the Vatican, when Jon & Jonathan & I went out for some pizza (I never thought I’d feel as if I had had enough pizza but I am beginning to feel that way). And now, onto St. Peter’s Square and our first stop: the…
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More history and creepy crypts!
It’s almost the weekend, so time for another holiday and more travel! This time, we’re heading west, first to Odense, the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen and one of Denmark’s cities with wonderful buildings from the medieval through the neo-Gothic era. Here are Jonathan & Allison at the Radhusplasen in Odense (town hall square, on…
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Lund
On Friday we took the train to Lund, which is one of Sweden’s oldest cities. In fact, we saw runestones there dating from before 1000 AD, which is when this area still belonged to Denmark (’til 1658, remember?). Below is Lund Cathedral, which dates to about 1100 AD. and houses the tomb of the archbishop…
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The Helsingborg Sights
I debated calling this blog entry, “…or, what to do when your legs are soo tired from lugging suitcases over cobblestones that you need an alternative to the hike you’d planned.” Fortunately, there was plenty more to see and do in Helsingborg and then in Wallakra and Hoganas. We started off with a tour of…