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Tuesday, July 22. 2008

Isola di San Giulio

It's a quick water taxi ride from Orta San Giulio to Isola di San Giulio. The basilica on the tiny island was first built in 926 but has had many revisions and renovations since then. It's part of an active Benedictine monastery.

Here's a brief history of the island.

Most interesting to me were the frescoes, which ranged in age from early medieval to Renaissance. This one, on a pillar, looked Byzantine in influence. I was sure I took more fresco photos, but I don't find them on my camera. Maybe I spaced out.

Here's a site with more photos of the frescoes.

A few more of my photos from the island on continuation page.

A view of the little island from San Guilio:

An alley leading down to the water:

A couple of old buildings on the island:

 

Posted by Bird Dog in History, Our Essays, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 12:08 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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BD,

FYI

I just came upon a very nice glossy quarterly called River & Shore, published by Shore Line Newpapers in Guilford, CT 203-453-2711. Unfortunately, they have no web presence, yet.

Great photography and stories about the CT shore east of New Haven.



story titles:
A River Reborn - nice pics of old boats
A Life Before the Masst - About the schooner Quinnipiak, out of New Haven
The Fish finders - Four of the best charter captains
The Amazing Comer - captain George Comers exploits in Hudson Bay
A story about a restoration by Duo Dickinson - a pretty good architect in a town full of them

Nice advertising, too.

Steve in CT
#1 Steve on 2008-07-22 18:10 (Reply)
Sounds good. No web presence is bad.
#1.1 BD on 2008-07-22 18:26 (Reply)
Steve:

Thank you for your interest in River & Shore. I am the editor of the publication, and we are working on setting up a Web site soon. Our second edition will appear next week. We distribute free throughout Middlesex County and along the Connecticut shore from Mystic to Milford.

If there's anything else you'd like to know, contact me at: ehesselberg@ctcentral.com

Best , Erik Hesselberg
#1.2 Erik Hesselberg on 2008-08-18 14:35 (Reply)

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