S. Lorenzo e Montecatino - Lucca, loc. Cappella
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45°46'14.48N 8°25'53.58E
Just a relaxing autumn walk around the hills near Lucca town, testing the latest Xiro camera firmware that makes the 720p 60fps shooting now possible.
Fly safe, fly happy.
Vakantiehuis Le Pratola - Vakantie Toscane (Chianti, Italië)
Het vakantiehuis Le Pratola is ruim 400 jaar oud en ligt bovenop een heuvel, beschikt over een privé zwembad en is omgeven door 2 hectare grond.
Het vakantiehuis is onlangs geheel luxe gerenoveerd, maar wel met behoud van het originele karakter en traditionele architectonische elementen.
In het vakantiehuis beschikt over 5 slaapkamers, 6 badkamers en is daardoor ruim genoeg voor een grote gezinnen of vriendengroepen. Er kunnen tot 11 personen verblijven in de villa.
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Church of Saint John Saint Reparata, Chiesa dei Santi Giovanni e Reparata, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
The church of Santi Giovanni e Reparata Lucca is a church that is located in Piazza San Giovanni. First seat of the bishops of the diocese, when the dignity of the cathedral at the beginning of the eighth century was transferred to San Martino was the right to the baptismal font, and this made it increasingly narrow the relationship between the two sacred buildings. In the early nineteenth century the church was indemaniata by the Napoleonic government, the private and the furnishings to house the archives of the ancient Republic. In 1828 it was reopened for worship, but in a situation much changed. The current layout dates back for much of the reconstruction of the second half of the twelfth century, but its origins are much older. The complex of Santa Reparata was built in the fifth century on an area of Roman settlement. Around the sixth century, it took on a function burial but the eighth century the church was running again. In the ninth century was opened a crypt where they were deposited the relics of St. Panteleimon, discovered in 1714. In the late tenth and early eleventh century were carried out new interventions. The traces of these events are now readable in the archaeological under the floor of the basilica, which in the twelfth century replaced the old plant. The new church - three aisles supported by columns with composite capitals, with an apse and transept - did not differ much in size from early Christian structure; it poses so strong affiliation with the guidelines neoantichi that characterize the architecture of Lucca from the end of the eleventh century. With this spirit classicist coexist new elements, typical of Lombard, which partitions and pilasters in the apse and transept, crowns arched molded busts on shelves with human and lion. The same mixture is detected decorative in: in the decoration of some capitals of the interior, rich in figures enveloped, leafy gargoyles, harpies and dragons, they reveal similarities with the repertoire of Guidetto. The same culture can be sought in the surviving decoration of the apse and archivolt of the central portal. Next to a collaborator Guidetto works in the architrave, with the Madonna praying between two angels and the Apostles, Villano, a sculptor of the most archaic and traditional culture, which completes its work in 1187. The complex and portal summarizes thus the two souls of mastery that reconstructs the church of the twelfth century. The baptistery was the subject of work in the twelfth century in this age is to report the source with pavement opus sectile but its global restructuring of the fourteenth century: in 1393 it was covered with the pointed dome supported by ribs. Very little remains today on site of the works of art from the second half of the fourteenth century enriched the church: the 1398 date the fresco of the Baptism of Christ on the baptismal font and well before the end of the century are to be dated the two great frescoed panels in the left transept of the Madonna between St. Nicholas and Catherine and Saints Ginese, Sebastian and Barbara. At the end of the fifteenth century given the frescoed lunette in the Baptistery with the Madonna with Saints, to be referred to the collaboration between Michael and Ansano Ciampanti. As of the end of the sixteenth century began the reorganization that continued throughout the first two decades of the next century. Among the most striking is the new facade that reuses however, for most of the Middle Ages. Inside, the same phase is due the coffered ceiling and the decoration of the apse, where Paul Guidotti frescoed Annunciation with the Eternal and Angels. At the end of the seventeenth century was opened in the left side chapel of St. Ignatius on a design by Domenico Martinelli, one of the most interesting Baroque achievements of Lucca, completely covered in polychrome marbles with fresco decorations in the dome, attributed to Hippolytus Marracci, depicting the glory of St. Ignatius. In the early nineteenth century the church was meant to Archive and in that circumstance was deprived of almost all its furnishings, largely dispersed. However, soon proved inadequate to the new function for serious moisture problems, was reconsecrated in 1828, with new altars and new paintings. The Baptistery assumed at the time the function of memorial chapel of the local glories.
Hot Air Balloon Tuscany 2014
This is a little compilation from Tuscany, including ballooning in Florence and Siena. We are going to be flying with Gianna and Stefano later this year in Tuscany. balloonintuscany.com
VILLA CAIANO - Londa, Florence, Toscane
Villa Caiano is fantastische, moderne en luxueuze Toscaanse villa die in de traditionele Florentijnse stijl gebouwd is. Het heeft drie verdiepingen en is onderverdeeld in twee aparte vakantiehuizen die de mooie tuin en het schitterende zwembad delen. Villa Caiano biedt spectaculair, panoramisch uitzicht over het Toscaanse platteland en de bergen.
Voor meer informatie kijk op: to-toscane.nl/villacaiano10/