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Most of the Bellatrovata Spring 2006 material has been expanded and transferred to the Spain & Portugal Photo and History Pages in Paradoxplace

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DOM PARADOX D.O.C.G. IN EUROPE MAY- JULY 2006

SPRING IN SPAIN & PORTUGAL SUMMER IN FRANCE SUMMER IN ITALY

COMPLETE 2006 PAGE LISTING (FAST DOWNLOAD - NO PICS!)

LINKS TO CATHEDRALS, ABBEYS AND CHURCHES EXPLORED

SPAIN & PORTUGAL IN MAY AND JUNE 2006

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Paradox's Spanish and Portuguese route

Madrid, Avila, Salamanca, Toledo, Granada, Cordoba, Carmona, Seville, Huelva, Salema (SW tip of Portugal), Evora (near the 'a' of Badajoz), Batalha (near the 'r' of Portugal), Santiago de Compostela, the Pilgrims' Road (Camino de Santiago or Camino Frances if headed east like us) - Leon, Burgos, Jaca (north of Huesca) - Rueda (south of Zaragosa), Poblet and Santes Creus (W of Barcelona) ...

Map of the Camino de Compostela / Camino Frances - from the excellent MSM book "The Roads to Santiago de Compostela"

The Monastery Church of San Miguel de Escalada (left - the blockhouse on the right is a bit of later Romanesque rubbish!) south east of Leon - a rare and very old Mozarabic masterpiece

Most of the Bellatrovata Spring 2006 material has been expanded and transferred to the Spain & Portugal Photo and History Pages in Paradoxplace

FRANCE IN JUNE 2006

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The nave, apse and ambulatory stonework of L'Eglise Saint-Etienne de Vignory (just north of Chaumont in Champagne) is essentially the same as when it was built in the mid 1000s. The church was the model for the Abbazia di Sant'Antimo - Tuscany's very old and most beautiful abbey church, built in the 1120s and though there are several major differences, it is certainly true that the two 850 - 950 year old churches share a very similar look and feel inside.

Most of the Bellatrovata Spring 2006 material has been expanded and transferred to the Spain & Portugal Photo and History Pages in Paradoxplace

ITALY IN JUNE / JULY 2006

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The Ristoro di Lamole - an old favourite with a view to beat all views, revisited on a glorious day - more photos

Looking back on Italy - lunch behind the old hospice (where they bred the famous Saint Bernard dogs) on the Swiss side of the Gran San Bernardo Pass (2,473 M). The main road below goes past the Swiss border control (by the bus on the right) then anticlockwise round the lake to the Italian border control just to the left of the white building, then down a steep hill which begins at the building at the top left of the lake.

The pass has witnessed much history, including the passage of Napoleon Bonaparte and his 40,000 strong army on their way to pillage Italy in 1800.

Bellatrovata and Domparadox are the "on the road" travel sites for Dom Paradox, D.O.C.G. (aka Adrian Fletcher) and their main website Paradoxplace. The photographs and commentary first published here are later edited, extended and added to Paradoxplace, a place full of the art, books, history and stories of the movers and shakers of Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Renaissance Italy and the East - plus Italian Food and European Photo Galleries.
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