My Multiply: novembra 2014

piatok 28. novembra 2014

The reflection in the water

Weekend Reflections

Lake Wanaka lies at the heart of the Otago Lakes

in the lower South Island of New Zealand

and was formed by glacial erosion during the last ice age,

more than 10,000 years ago

For many Bratislava citizens,

the opening of the city’s annual Christmas market

is the true beginning of the holiday season

reflection in a shopping window

Weekend Reflections

Galanta

the town situated on the south of Slovakia,

is linked with one of the branches

of the aristocratic Magyar Esterházy family.

The family left the two important historical

buildings – the Renaissance Manor House

(from the 17th century) and the Neo-Gothic

Manor House (from the year 1860).

The Neo-Gothic Manor House in Galanta

was built in 1633 by brothers

Daniel and Paul Esterházy

as a renaissance fortress.

In 1736 it was rebuilt in the baroque style.

Its present-day look is the result

of the vast reconstruction done

by Joseph Esterházy, who was inspired

by the romantic English Gothic style.

(Unfortunately now closed
and abandoned

- waiting for his reconstruction)

The expiatory church of La Sagrada Família is a work

on a grand scale which was begun on 19 March 1882

from a project by the diocesan architect Francisco de Paula del Villar (1828-1901).

At the end of 1883 Gaudí was commissioned to carry on the works,

a task which he did not abandon until his death in 1926.

Since then different architects have continued the work after his original idea.

The building is in the centre of Barcelona, and over the years

it has become one of the most universal signs of identity of the city and the country.

Dubie Bacino originally shared