"THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS"

 

Wed 8 February is the Feast of St Jerome Emiliani, patron saint of Orphans

 

Brunelleschi's Spedale degli Innocenti

(Foundling Hospital - Florence)

 

Canterbury Cathedral

 

Worcester Cathedral

 

English Cathedral Photo Pages

 

English Photo & History Pages

 

Lincoln Cathedral 

 

Wells Cathedral

 

Durham Cathedral

 

 

Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay, Burgundy

 

Collecting winter firewood

St-Lazare, Avallon (Burgundy)

 

France photo and history pages

 

The Prophet Jeremiah

Moissac (SW France)

 

 

Abbazia Sant'Antimo

L'Abbazia di Sant'Antimo (S Tuscany)

 

Siena - medieval mastercity

 

Florence - River Arno and Duomo

 

Paradoxplace in Tuscany

 

The Team Paradox 8 Day Tuscan A Tour Itinerary

 

Tuscan Sunflowers

 

Tuscan Poppies

 

"Hierusalem" mosaic at the base of the c430 Triumphal Arch of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome

 

Churches of Rome

 

Trani Cathedral

Trani (Puglia) - Cattedrale di San Nicola il Pellegrino

 

Paradoxplace in Puglia

 

Innès de Castro in the magnificent Cistercian Monastery of Alcobaça, Portugal

 

Cistercian Abbeys of Europe

 

The beautifully simple Romanesque nave of the Catedral de Santiago de Compostela

 

Camino de Santiago

 

Spain photo and history pages

 

Santo Domingo de Silos

 

 

Paradox's Facebook Experiment

 

 

 

 

 

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Adrian Fletcher's

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New Paradoxplace Pages and Photos

 

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BELLATROVATA

 

Lots of new stories & photos from Autumn / Winter 2011 in England

 

 

 

 

Chartres Cathedral Zodiac Window

 

Aquarius the water carrier (right), and the three faces of the New Year - past, present and future

 

Le Verseau (The Water Carrier)

January 21 – February 18

 

 

 

Medieval Zodiacs

 

 

Custom Search

 

Link to family website Ciaofamiglia

 

Paradox's Facebook Experiment

 

 

 

Paradoxplace supports Opportunity Cambodia

 

Opportunity Cambodia

 

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Last updated February 2012.

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Cistercian Royal Abbey & Nunnery of Santa Maria la Real de Las Huelgas, Burgos - Las Claustrillos (Small Cloister)

 

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

 

The Jaws of Hell (or "Doom") - Conques

 

 

Lunch at Lamole, 2002 - those were the days!

 

 

Restaurant    Food    Wine   Truffle   Pages

 

Chianti   Siena   Florence   Umbria   Venice   Piemonte   Rome   Puglia

 

Simply the Best Meals

photographic memories of eating simply and well in Italy, Spain and France

 

Team Paradox's Truffle Festival Pages

 

WWII in Italy

 

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 +

 

 

The Bastide of Villeneuve d'Aveyron

 

 

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

    Tympanums, Lintels, Portals and Panels     Capitals & Corbels

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.

 

 

Lorenzo "il Magnifico" de' Medici

1449 - 1469 - 1492 (43)

 

 

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.

 

 

Urbino - the beginning (or end)

of the Piero della Francesca Trail

 

 

 

Mason's Head - Lincoln Cathedral

 

 

September - November 2011 ..... Team Paradox back travelling England, unearthing more ancestors from the 1700s and 1800s and parish churches from much earlier.

 

Follow the fun in Bellatrovata

 

Link to Ciaofamiglia