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echo "This is the cooles rss feed in the worlden-usGreece - By the Occenhttp://www.longfingers.com/view.php?id=42]]>(321 kb) While waitng for the boat to get fixed we had to go swiming. This is a great place to do so.Hans Inge Hagenhttp://homepage.mac.com/hansingehagen/qtvr/new/preview/syros_beach.jpgGreece - By the Occenhttp://www.longfingers.com/view.php?id=42
Norway - The Old Church of Boehttp://www.longfingers.com/view.php?id=93]]>(299 kb) The old church is a stone building from 1178 or 1179Hans Inge Hagenhttp://homepage.mac.com/hansingehagen/qtvr/preview/bo_gamle_kyrkje.jpgNorway - The Old Church of Boehttp://www.longfingers.com/view.php?id=93
Italy - San Lorenzohttp://www.longfingers.com/view.php?id=675]]>(1644 kb) The unique blend of simple elegant Tuscan architectural forms and colourful Lombard decorative motifs produced an extraordinary offspring: the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie. In 1463, a captain in Francesco Sforza's army, Gaspare Vimercati, donated a plot of land to the Dominican order. On the site was a chapel adorned with a fresco of the Virgin, so called Madonna delle Grazie. The monks commissioned Guiniforte Solari to build a church and monastery on the plot, and ground was broken on September 10, 1463. The church that Solari built between 1466 and 1490 is a typical example of the transition stage between Gothic and Renaissance, as can be seen in the Lombard style gabled façade decorated with pilaster strips and pierced by a single opening below and several niches above. Only the gabled portal belongs to the period when the Renaissance architect Donato Bramante was involved in the work. The church was just about ready - the presbytery and apse had already been finished - when the new ruler of Milan, Ludovico il Moro, ordered it enlarged. Both presbytery and apse were torn down so that Donato Bramante could put up his own design for the huge apse. It was begun in March 1492 and when it was completed in 1497 Ludovico had his wife, Beatrice d'Este, buried there.Hans Inge Hagenhttp://homepage.mac.com/hansingehagen/qtvr/qtvrsource/HansIngeHagen/2005/Milan/saint_pietro_in_gessate_.jpgItaly - San Lorenzohttp://www.longfingers.com/view.php?id=675
Norway - Libraryhttp://www.longfingers.com/view.php?id=566]]>(1377 kb) The library of Seljord HotelHans Inge Hagenhttp://homepage.mac.com/hansingehagen/qtvr/qtvrsource/HansIngeHagen/bibilotek.jpgNorway - Libraryhttp://www.longfingers.com/view.php?id=566
Norway - Happy New Yearhttp://www.longfingers.com/view.php?id=576]]>(1664 kb) Our New Year celebration is not as big as other places, but as nice!Hans Inge Hagenhttp://homepage.mac.com/hansingehagen/qtvr/qtvrsource/HansIngeHagen/fireworks.jpgNorway - Happy New Yearhttp://www.longfingers.com/view.php?id=576
]]>(321 kb) While waitng for the boat to get fixed we had to go swiming. This is a great place to do so.
]]>(299 kb) The old church is a stone building from 1178 or 1179
]]>(1644 kb) The unique blend of simple elegant Tuscan architectural forms and colourful Lombard decorative motifs produced an extraordinary offspring: the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie. In 1463, a captain in Francesco Sforza's army, Gaspare Vimercati, donated a plot of land to the Dominican order. On the site was a chapel adorned with a fresco of the Virgin, so called Madonna delle Grazie. The monks commissioned Guiniforte Solari to build a church and monastery on the plot, and ground was broken on September 10, 1463. The church that Solari built between 1466 and 1490 is a typical example of the transition stage between Gothic and Renaissance, as can be seen in the Lombard style gabled façade decorated with pilaster strips and pierced by a single opening below and several niches above. Only the gabled portal belongs to the period when the Renaissance architect Donato Bramante was involved in the work. The church was just about ready - the presbytery and apse had already been finished - when the new ruler of Milan, Ludovico il Moro, ordered it enlarged. Both presbytery and apse were torn down so that Donato Bramante could put up his own design for the huge apse. It was begun in March 1492 and when it was completed in 1497 Ludovico had his wife, Beatrice d'Este, buried there.