San Miguel de la Escalada - rare Mozarabic church survivor near Leon (Castile)

Cistercian Abbey of Rueda, Aragon

Archive of Earlier Home Page Photos

The Bewcastle Cross, Cumbria

Links for Travellers   Recent Books

Paradoxplace Information Centre

Daily Work Log - New and Revised Pages

What's New and Interesting

Page & Map Links      Photo Gallery Links

ITALY

Tuscany   Umbria & le Marche   Venice & Northern Italy   Piedmont

Rome, Abruzzi & Central Italy   Sicily & Southern Italy   Puglia

Links to individual Italian towns

Spain & Portugal   France   Britain 

  Istanbul    India

Welcome to

Adrian Fletcher's

Paradoxplace

(aka Vicarious Travel)

About Paradoxplace

Last updated July 2008

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

EXPLANATION OF PARADOXPLACE COPYRIGHT POLICY

The Basilique St-Julien, Brioude, the biggest and internally most beautiful of the many Romanesque churches of the Auvergne.

The Best Food

Restaurants    Food    Wine   Truffles

Truffle Festival Pages

Chianti    Siena    Florence    Umbria

Venice   Piemonte    Rome    Puglia

Simply the Best

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

Artists of the Italian Renaissance

Portraits from the Middle Ages

Kings and Queens of England

Medieval Church Page Links    Photos of over 40 Cistercian Abbeys

Abbeys, Cathedrals and Church Pages     Cloisters

Rose Windows    Tympanums    Capital Sculptures    Mosaics

 Bronze Doors    Mermaids    Zodiac signs and labours of the month

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).

Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor and builder of the Taj Mahal

Insight Pages

Medici Family & Medici Popes;  The Medieval Christian Church;  40 Cistercian Abbeys;  WWII in Italy;  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;   Explorers & Exploration

RECENT BOOK ADDITIONS  + BOOKS AND BOOKS AND BOOKS +

The Ponte Vecchio (Florence) on a 2007 November evening

Link to Ciao Adriano - October & November 2007 in Italy

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