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![]() ![]() Unusual dome for this kind of mission. ![]() ![]() |
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Like all four missions in the National Park here, this church remains an active parish. The structure on the right is the ruins of a convent, later a Benedictine monastary.
![]() The Benedictines, seeking to modernize the structure, changed the old rounded arches to "modern", pointed, Gothic ones. ![]() Shell of the first floor of the convent: ![]() |
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This is the side entrance, by Mrs. Barbarian:
![]() Keystone above door. Shell motifs were apparently very popular in this period. ![]() ![]() |
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Main entrance to church:
![]() Interior of church: ![]() Geometric designs in stuccoed portion of wall. This is supposedly a later restoration, but used the same process of incised lines in the slaked lime covering, which were then colored in. ![]() |
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Nice job Barbarian. This is my kind of architecture. I was wondering why the right door on the main entrance is so black?
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The Barbarian Very impressive pictures and informative texts. I just saved and immediately reposted my favourite, if I would have to choose one. This is the most fascinating archway picture to my eyes. Great, thanks /T |
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Torgny, I also like the arches. I like the repetitive lines. Thanks for you kind comments.
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I don't know why that particular area is so dark. It didn't seem that way to me when I was there, but it turned out like that on my Pentax, and on my wife's Olympus.
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Very nice shots, i especially like the composition on the 6th one
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Visiting this +200 year old edifice withthetastefullycomposed and well saturated pictures above displaying the dome, the bell tower, the arches, sculpturesintertwined with the elaborate decoration, has been a delight, Barbarian
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