Good evening!
The cathedral of Nantes took 450 years to build, and all it took was a match, in the hands of a hater of Christianity
The painter Corot, in a famous painting, shows a stonemason at work with a cathedral under construction in the distance.
When he asked: "what do you do?" The answer was: "I build the cathedral!"
They were built by the whole people and France, the first-born of Christianity, does not deserve its shoddy rulers!
Porto Rotondo
Via del Molo.
When the country did not exist, there was only this road, an ancient road, where wagons travelled, with columns on them, to be loaded onto ships, told to Rome. So many columns from here came to adorn Rome.
Not far from here, in Tom's quarry, freshly hewn columns had lain dormant for centuries.
Now, two are at the entrance to the port, and three at the first roundabout in the country.
The particularly good stonemasons from Gallura are the ones who manually made St Mark's Square and the Church, under the directives of Andrea Cascella.
Granite quarries are closing down year after year because cheaper granite is arriving from China and India.
It's Globalisation, baby!
I think the region should protect this age-old activity...
Houses and a big party and the splendour of bougainvilleas, a maiden, the harbour with boats.
On the central wall, above, a smoker.
A few years ago, a mosaic, with granite and porphyry tiles, was created on this street, with many fish.
It is the work of a
Breton artist
Emanuel Chaplin.
Little curiosity: why are they called bougainvilleas?
In the 19th century, a French navigator, Jean de Bouganville, brought them back to Europe from South Africa.
All white people in South Africa are leaving the country to avoid being killed. Reverse racism!
