Martin M. Miles' photos with the keyword: cemetery

Santa María de Camporramiro is located on the west bank of the river Miño about 3 km from Chantada. According to legend, its name comes from the battle that took place between Ramiro I and the Norman invaders. The battle, which lacks historical documentation, took place on a field, where a church dedicated to Santa María was later erected. The building of Santa María, whose origin, according to legend, dates back to the 9th century, preserves almost all of its Romanesque construction, except the belfry and the sacristy. The walls are made of regular granite ashlars, arranged in horizontal rows. The portal

Santa María de Camporramiro is located on the west bank of the river Miño about 3 km from Chantada. According to legend, its name comes from the battle that took place between Ramiro I and the Norman invaders. The battle, which lacks historical documentation, took place on a field, where a church dedicated to Santa María was later erected. The building of Santa María, whose origin, according to legend, dates back to the 9th century, preserves almost all of its Romanesque construction, except the belfry and the sacristy. The walls are made of regular granite ashlars, arranged in horizontal rows.

It is believed that a Roman Temple of Jupiter and a Villa stood on the spot where the monastery is now. However, according to tradition, the original construction of the place dates back to a small monastery with a church, built in the 10th century, in connection with the Christian reconquest, at the time of the first Asturo-Leonian monarch. No element of these pre-Romanesque buildings has survived to this day. During the 11th century, the monastery is mentioned in several documents. In 1094 the patronage was transferred to the See of Coimbra through a donation from Raimundo de Borgonha, Count of Galicia, and his wife Urraca I of León and Castile. In the 12th century, D. Afonso Henriques (1112-1185) donated the Leça Couto to the Hospitaller Order. The chapter house of the order was established in the original monastery, which later became the seat of one of several bailiffs. Under the ownership of the Hospitallers, the monastery underwent expansions and renovations, giving it military elements in the Romanesque style, the most striking element of which was the construction of a massive crenellated tower. The current church, a synthesis of Romanesque and Gothic styles, dates back to a major construction campaign between 1330 and 1336. The Leça do Balio monastery experienced the extinction of religious orders (1834) and was integrated into the municipality of Bouças (now Matosinhos) in 1835.

São Salvador is a parish church today. Erected in the 13th century it was the church of the adjoining Benedictine monastery, founded mid 11th century. The church dates back to the late 12th/early 13th century. Graf, Mattoso, and Real, authors of "Portugal Roman", connect the founding of the monastery to the descendents of Munio Viegas o Gasco, a fighter against the Saracens. They claim, that where the church is now, once was a mosque. The convent existed upto 1834 - and the buildings now serve different institutions. The massive tower may date back to a defence line during the Reconquista. The battlements were probably added in the 13th century, maybe even later. When I visited the church in 2018 it was party hidden under scaffoldings. Now the reconstruction was completed. Though I will add just a few "new" photos. the cemetery

The Church of Saint-Denis de Pommevic originally belonged to a priory of the Abbey of Moissac and was consecrated in 1052. After the Hundred Years' War the priory fell into disrepair. Later the church was enlarged and expanded. Only the apses of the Romanesque building have survived. The church is surrounded by the parish cemetery.

Santa Maria di Ronzano stands isolated on a hill in the village of Ronzano, in the municipality of Castel Castagna. The oldest document that mentions this church is from 1184. The exact date of the construction is unknown, but it was probably built in the second half of the 12th century. Some scholars see parallels to the Apulian Romanesque which is reflected in the setting of the windows, in the blind arches of the presbytery and in the floor plan

The small 11th-century church, which once belonged to a monastery, was often rebuilt and altered. Today it serves as a cemetery church.

Venice (ital. Venezia) is one of the most important tourist destinations worldwide with about 30 million visitors each year. I have already uploaded dozens of shots from previous visits, so I´ll try to cut down the number of uploads this time. Mother and daughter died in the 1914 Steamer Desaster. Mal reserached the story www.malspond.com/?p=2420 Isola di San Michele, the cemetery

Venice (ital. Venezia) is one of the most important tourist destinations worldwide with about 30 million visitors each year. I have already uploaded dozens of shots from previous visits, so I´ll try to cut down the number of uploads this time. Isola di San Michele, the cemetery

Venice (ital. Venezia) is one of the most important tourist destinations worldwide with about 30 million visitors each year. I have already uploaded dozens of shots from previous visits, so I´ll try to cut down the number of uploads this time. Isola di San Michele, the cemetery

Venice (ital. Venezia) is one of the most important tourist destinations worldwide with about 30 million visitors each year. I have already uploaded dozens of shots from previous visits, so I´ll try to cut down the number of uploads this time. Isola di San Michele, the cemetery

Rimaucourt, located about 20 km northeast of Chaumont, has an extraordinary chapel in the centre of the cemetery.

Rimaucourt, located about 20 km northeast of Chaumont, has an extraordinary chapel in the centre of the cemetery.

This church, surrounded by an old graveyard, belonged to a village named Weinfeld, that was abandoned in the 16th century. The church, once dedicated to St. Martin, is one of the oldest in the area. Parts of the foundation date back to Roman times. A parish is known here since 731. The tower is probably 14th century. Upto 1726 it served as a parish church for the neighbouring villages. It got renovated end of the 19th century and got consecrated again.

Venice (ital. Venezia) is one of the most important tourist destinations worldwide with about 30 million visitors each year. As each tourist takes at least 100 photos (minimum!) in Venice 3000000000 photos are taken here per year, what means more than 8 millions per day. Many of them are uploaded and can be found in the web. - A day on Murano, once known as a center for glassmaking ("Venetian glass", "Murano glass"), can be very relaxing.

Venice (ital. Venezia) is one of the most important tourist destinations worldwide with about 30 million visitors each year. As each tourist takes at least 100 photos (minimum!) in Venice 3000000000 photos are taken here per year, what means more than 8 millions per day. Many of them are uploaded and can be found in the web. - The "Isola di San Michele" hosts a cemetery since 1807, when under French occupation it was decreed that burial on the main Venetian islands was unsanitary. "San Michele in Isola" existed already, when the cemetery was planned. It served a Camaldolese convent on the island since the 1480s.

Venice (ital. Venezia) is one of the most important tourist destinations worldwide with about 30 million visitors each year. As each tourist takes at least 100 photos (minimum!) in Venice 3000000000 photos are taken here per year, what means more than 8 millions per day. Many of them are uploaded and can be found in the web. - The "Isola di San Michele" hosts a cemetery since 1807, when under French occupation it was decreed that burial on the main Venetian islands was unsanitary.