Past and Present: The Grand Place, Mons, Belgium.
Past The Belgian site of Mons has a long and illustrious past going back to Neolithic times. The Romans underContinue Reading
Category: Monuments and Sites
The New Bridge: Le Pont Neuf, Paris.
The King of France Henry II was asked by Parisians to build a new bridge across the expanse of theContinue Reading
Pompeii’s controversial amphitheatre
I made a passing comment to a friend a while ago about how impressive many of Pompeii’s public buildings andContinue Reading
The Monastery of Saint Catherine.
Lying on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, the beautiful St. Catherine’s monastery today is still one of the oldest workingContinue Reading
The Lighthouse of Alexandria
In 1994, a French team of archaeological divers conducted a salvage inspection in the eastern harbor of Alexandria in theContinue Reading
The Winds of Change, New York City 1945
Every year millions of migrating birds fly over New York City, using it as a stop over while on theirContinue Reading
The Portrait Statue of the Four Tetrarchs.
In my humble opinion, I believe that more than any other empire in history, both Rome and Byzantium are bestContinue Reading
The Crooked Forest of Gryfino.
The world is an amazing place where sometimes we can find truly beautiful and very strange things. In a smallContinue Reading
Rearview Mirror 