6 October is the Feast Day of the Child Martyr Ste-Foy (Santa Fe)

 

Conques and Ste-Foy

 

Durham Cathedral

 

 

 

Santiago de Compostela

NEW PHOTOS

 

 

Royal Cistercian Monastery of Alcobaça, Portugal

NEW PHOTOS

 

Archive of Earlier Home Page Photos

 

 

Links for Travellers    Links to Amazon and Books    Better Photos & Cameras

 

Paradoxplace Information Centre      What's New and Interesting

 

Daily Work Log showing New and Upgraded Pages

 

 

Custom Search

 

 

 

ITALY

 

Tuscany   Florence   Siena  -   Umbria & le Marche

 

Venice, Ravenna & Northern Italy   Piedmont   Alpine Crossings

 

Rome   Lazio, Abruzzo & Central Italy   -   Palermo   Sicily & Southern Italy   Puglia

 

A new (November 2007) 8 Day Tuscan A Tour Itinerary

 

Links to individual Italian towns

 

 

Spain & Portugal     France     Britain

 

Istanbul     India

 

Page & Map Links      Photo Gallery Links

 

 

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About Paradoxplace

 

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Last updated October 2008

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© Adrian Fletcher 2000-08 - The contents may not be hotlinked, or reproduced without permission.

 

EXPLANATION OF PARADOXPLACE COPYRIGHT POLICY

 

Concordia Temple, Agrigento, Sicily

 

 

San Gimignano

 

 

Tartufo Bianco Time

 

The Best Meals

 

 

Restaurants    Food    Wine   Truffles

 

October is White Truffle time in Alba, and November in Tuscany - here are Team Paradox's Truffle Festival Pages

 

Chianti    Siena    Florence    Umbria

Venice   Piemonte    Rome    Puglia

 

Simply the Best Meals

 

 

Fra Angelico Annunciations: San Giovanni Val d'Arno, Cortona, Madrid, & San Marco, Florence

 

 

Artists of the Italian Renaissance

Portraits from the Middle Ages

Kings and Queens of England

 

Architecture, Art and History of the Medieval European Church

Photos of over 40 Cistercian Abbeys

Abbeys, Cathedrals and Church Pages     Cloisters

Rose Windows    Tympanums    Capitals & Corbels    Mosaics

 Bronze Doors    Mermaids    Zodiac signs and labours of the month

Medieval Popes    Popes of the Renaissance

 

 

Cosimo il Vecchio (de'Medici)

 

 

Movers and Shakers of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Early Modern Europe

 

Chatty chronologies of interesting events, people, ideas, books, art and architecture from the end of the Western Roman Empire (500) to the emergence of the Nation States of Europe (1600).

 

The 50 Most Popular Pages in Paradoxplace

 

Paradoxplace has nearly 1,000 pages of photos, stories, books and restaurants, which attract tens of thousands of new visitors each month.  These were the 50 most visited pages in July 2008.

 

 

Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor and builder of the Taj Mahal

 

 

Insight Pages

 

 

WWII in Italy;  Medici Family, Medici Popes & Medici Queens;  The Medieval Christian Church - Art, Buildings, History 40 Cistercian Abbeys; Crusades;  Equestrian Statues of the Renaissance;   The 100 Years' War;   Last Supper Paintings in Florence and Venice;   Europe's Leaders 1500 - 1550;   Justinian's Constantinople (527 - 565) Suleiman's Istanbul (1520-1566);   Great Mughal Emperors of India (+The Taj Mahal);   Mongol Emperors;   Travellers, Traders and Explorers 1000 - 1600

 

 

RECENT BOOK ADDITIONS  + BOOKS AND BOOKS AND BOOKS +

 

 

The Ponte Vecchio (Florence) on a 2007 November evening