Treading grapes in September - Chartres Cathedral Zodiac window.

 

St-Lazare, Avallon (Burgundy)

Winter Solstice

 

Canterbury Cathedral

 

English Cathedral Photo Pages

 

Lincoln Cathedral 

 

Worcester Cathedral

 

 

Mourners on the tomb of  La Beata Urraca Lopez de Haro (1170 – 1262 (92)), Abbess of the Cistercian Abbey (for nuns) of Canas

 

 

Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay, Burgundy

 

Cistercian Abbeys of Europe

 

Cistercian Reial Monastir de Santa Maria de Poblet, Catalonia

 

Moissac (SW France)

 

Abbazia Sant'Antimo

L'Abbazia di Sant'Antimo (S Tuscany)

 

Trani Cathedral

Trani (Puglia) - Cattedrale di San Nicola il Pellegrino

 

 

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The little painted Pilgrims' Church of St-Jacques des Guérets, Loir Valley

 

 

Memories of Adam and Eve

 

 

Prawns in Salema (Portugal)

 

Restaurant    Food    Wine   Truffle   Pages

 

Chianti   Siena   Florence   Umbria   Venice   Piemonte   Rome   Puglia

 

Simply the Best Meals

mouthwatering photos

 

Team Paradox's Truffle Festival Pages

 

 

Charlemagne (Louvre)

 

 

Insight Pages

 

Renaissance People     Kings and Queens of England

 

Medieval Pilgrimage Roads to Santiago and Rome

 

 

Montecassino WWII in Italy;  Medici Family, Medici Popes & Medici Queens;  40 Cistercian Abbeys;  The Normans in Southern Italy & Sicily 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 +

 

 

A little sea fella in a spandrel in the facade of Notre Dame la Grande in Poitiers.

 

 

Art Architecture and History of the Medieval Church + photos of hundreds of medieval cathedrals, abbeys, monasteries and churches

 

England's Medieval Cathedrals     Rome's Churches

Photos and histories of over 40 Cistercian Abbeys

    Cloisters    Rose Windows    Mosaics    Baptismal Fonts    Bronze Doors

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Roof Bosses     Misericords    Croziers    Mermaids     Dragons

Adam 'n Eves   Annunciations   The Nativity   The Magi

Medieval Popes    Popes of the Renaissance

 

Links to Paradoxplace pages about medieval illustrations of Labours of the Month, Zodiac Signs, Cardinal Virtues and Sins in Western European churches.

 

 

Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent

1494 - 1520 - 1566 (72)

 

 

Portraits from the Middle Ages

 

An Emperor, two Kings, a Banker, a Priest, a Pope and a Sultan launch the age of European Nation States

 

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).

 

Portraits from the Middle Ages

 

The 100 Most Popular Pages in Paradoxplace (March 2010)

 

Paradoxplace has nearly 1,000 pages of photos, stories, books, food and restaurants, which attract tens of thousands of new visitors each month.  These were the 100 most visited pages in March 2010.

 

 

Vittorino, Gubbio

The little Franciscan Church of Vittorino in Gubbio, Umbria, where St Francis talked sense into a recalcitrant wolf.

 

 

October / November 2009 saw Team Paradox finding some beautiful new places in England, and tracking down English ancestors from the 1700s and 1800s and the areas they lived and churches / chapels where they were married .

 

Follow the fun in Bellatrovata

 

Link to Ciaofamiglia

 

 

Toller Fratrum, Dorset