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May 1 is May Day
May Day in Salamanca (Spain)
April 23 is St George's Day
Moses and Paul milling away in Vézelay
Paradoxplace in France
French Pilgrimage Roads
French Mermaid
- St-Côme-d'Olt
Lots more Mermaids
English Mermaid - St Laurence, Ludlow
Canterbury Cathedral
English Cathedral Photo Pages
Worcester Cathedral
Lincoln Cathedral
2011 photos
Paradoxplace in
England
Durham Cathedral +
new page
Spain photo and history pages
The elegantly simple Romanesque
nave of the
Catedral de Santiago de Compostela
Camino de Santiago
León Cathedral
The magnificent facade of Burgos
Cathedral
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April 25 is Anzac Day in
Australia
Paradox's maternal
grandfather - Lt-Col Jimmy Sproule RAMC (centre) was the Medical Officer
of the 2nd Btn Royal Welsh Fusiliers and latterly the 38th (Welsh)
Division. He spent 4 years in and around the trenches of the front lines of WW I
in Belgium and France.
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Lovers on the edge of the Auvergne
Conques & Ste Foy (Santa Fe)
Paradoxplace in Italy
Basilica di Santa Croce (Franciscan)
Paradoxplace in Florence
L'Abbazia di Sant'Antimo (S Tuscany)
Siena - medieval mastercity
Paradoxplace in Siena
The Team Paradox 8 Day Tuscan A Tour Itinerary
Urbino - the beginning (or end)
of the Piero della Francesca Trail
Paradoxplace in Tuscany
Santa Prassede, Rome
Churches of Rome
Paradoxplace in Puglia
Trani (Puglia) - Still a Medieval
Crusader Port
The Normans in S Italy & Sicily
Anversa degli Abruzzi
US World War II cemetery near
Greve-in-Chianti
War
in Italy 1943 - 1945
The unknown part of WW II
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Welcome to
Adrian Fletcher's
Paradoxplace
About Paradoxplace
New Paradoxplace Pages and Photos
Archive of
Earlier
Home Page Photos
Site Overview and Navigation
Taurus -
The Bull
(Le Taureau) -
April 21
to May 21
Cathédrale St-Lazare,
Autun (Burgundy)
Autun Zodiacs & monthly labours
More Medieval Zodiacs & Labours of the
Months
Also in Autun - a
forlorn send up of the Spring theme of a mounted knight showing off
his hawking skills
- like the
fine fella in Thorpe Salvin, S Yorkshire on the right.
And the famous sculpture of Eve by Gislebertus,
now in Autun's Rolin Museum
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Domenico Ghirlandaio frescos a young
Amerigo Vespucci
(1454 - 1512 (58)), in the
Florence church of Ognissanti.
The Vespucci family were Ognissanti parishioners, and the two
continents of the Americas were later named after their explorer son
Amerigo. The refectory of Ognissanti also has one of the
best surviving Renaissance "Last
Suppers".
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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).
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.
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