Pilgrims & Cloisters

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Pilgrim. Photo by Alessandro Pucci

Spanish Monastery & Romanesque Cloister ~ Photo by Roy Winkelman

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Monreale Cloisters

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Monreale Cloisters: Norman King of Sicily  William II (1153 - 1189) presents his new cathedral to the Virgin and Son (capital)

Link to Monreale Duomo     Link to Paradoxplace Cloisters' Page

The Normans and the Hohenstaufen Kings of Sicily and Southern Italy 1000 - 1266

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   A cloister (from Latin claustrum, "enclosure") is a rectangular open space surrounded by covered walks or open galleries, with open arcades on the inner side, ...
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   The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Visit The Cloisters

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   The Cloisters museum and gardens, the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, was assembled from ...
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   b : an area within a monastery or convent to which the religious are normally restricted. c : monastic life. d : a place or state of seclusion. 2. : a covered passage ...
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   A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle. 2. a. A place, especially a monastery or ...

   
   

   
   

   
   

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   The Cloisters is a museum located in Fort Tryon Park, Washington Heights, New York City. The building, ...

   
   
   

   

   Ephrata Cloister

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   The Ephrata Cloister or Ephrata Community was a religious community, established in 1732 by Johann ...

Turning Trash Piles Into a Bird-Watcher’s Paradise

NY Times
y JAMES BARRON
Published: January 25, 2010

Every other month for the last year, the parks department has led birders through Freshkills [a public dump site for NYC for 50 years]. This explains why Mr. Wollney, a public programs associate from the Staten Island Museum, was climbing a 150-foot mountain on Sunday morning, trailed by more than 20 others who had signed up for the tour...

Enter the bird-watchers, their high-powered binoculars and long-lens cameras around their necks, their illustrated reference guides in their pockets.

Every other month for the last year, the parks department has led birders through Freshkills. This explains why Mr. Wollney, a public programs associate from the Staten Island Museum, was climbing a 150-foot mountain on Sunday morning, trailed by more than 20 others who had signed up for the tour.

The mountain was once a garbage pile. Now it has been sealed off with a plastic membrane and covered with a special kind of grass. Maybe on a clear day a Burton Lane-Alan Jay Lerner song would come to mind. Sunday, with blustery winds and a spitting sky, was not that day.... (more)

www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/nyregion/26bird.html

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