ROME IN MAY 2005

Links to just a few of the photos destined to add Roman flavour to Paradoxplace later in 2005

Today's Pantheon, the oldest large public building in use in the world, is the work of Hadrian (Emperor 117 - 138), who rebuilt a 27BC south facaded structure erected by Augustus' son in law Agrippa ("M.Agrippa" - now that's a power name if ever there was one!), and was nice enough to have the latter's name put on the new north facing facade.  The round roof of the Pantheon is made of (ancient Roman) concrete, and is 142' in diameter (the same as the dome of Florence's Duomo), with a large hole in the middle to let in light (and rain - there are drains in the floor for this - the Romans thought of everything). 

Central England and Wales

Special Pages on: Overview, Worcester Cathedral, Peterborough Cathedral, Lichfield Cathedral,  Tintern Abbey*, Gloucester Cathedral, Buildwas Abbey*, Wenlock Priory, Malmesbury Abbey, Hereford Cathedral

South and Southwest England

Special Pages on: Overview, Exeter Cathedral, Wells Cathedral, Bath Abbey, Buckfast Abbey, Glastonbury Abbey, Sherbourne Abbey, Saint Alban's Cathedral, Waltham Abbey, Westminster Abbey, Igtham Mote, Waverley Abbey*,  Medieval Churches of the Romney Marshes

Yorkshire and the North of England

Special Pages on: Overview, Lincoln Cathedral, York Minster, Durham Cathedral, Rievaulx Abbey*, Fountains Abbey*, Byland Abbey*

Chartres Cathedral (France)

French Cistercian Abbeys*

Special Page on:  Noirlac Abbey*

Abbeys and Monasteries of Italy

Special Pages on:  Chiaravalle della Colomba*, Certosa di Pavia, Abbazia di San Galgano*, Eremo di San Galgano, Sant'Antimo, Monte Oliveto Maggiore

Cathedrals of Italy

Special Pages on:  Spoleto Cattedrale, Lucca Duomo

The Val d'Aosta and the Alps

Special Pages on: Val d'Aosta and the Matterhorn, Gran San Bernardo Pass and Monte Bianco

Bergamo

Tuscany 2005

Special Pages on:  Filming the Decameron, Siena, Il Palio, South of Siena, Liberating Florence,  Volterra,  Pisa

Less Visited Tuscan Cloisters

Special Page on:  Torri - Tuscany's only romanesque cloister

Florence - frescos and paintings