A quiet corner in the Jardin Borda, a large series of gardens near the Cathedral in Cuernavaca. The gardens were started by an 18th-century mining family, and extended by an heir with a bent for botany. By the 1860s, the house and gardens had become a summer residence for the ill-fated Emperor Maximilian. Today, they are open to the public and offer a wide range of exhibits and quiet places to relax.
A visit to the Desert View Watchtower on the eastern portion of the Grand Canyon’s South Rim. Constructed in the 1930s, it offers magnificent canyon views and a tie to the Native American history of the Canyon.
I was visiting a friend, and this was the view from their house. I could understand why they built their house facing this direction. I was taken by the beauty!
Samantha shares some street art pictures from her recent trip to Bogotá, Colombia.
A garden in South Wales is the topic of today’s post from ProfessorAbe
DrFumblefinger shares photos of the Fitz Roy Massif, one of the most famous and difficult to climb peaks in the world, situated in Patagonia.
Vienna’s Clock Museum, one of the biggest and best of its kind doesn’t really have 10,000 clocks, but you’d never know that as you get lost in its world of time.
The oldest monumental fountain in Paris has a long history of rebuilding, renaming and relocating
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Very reminiscent of the Moorish-style gardens of Spain & Morocco, always the water.
Not surprising in a way…
One of our gleanings on our recent trip to Andalucia is that for the first two centuries of Spanish rule in the Americas, most of the Spanish immigrants came from the south, where Seville had a monopoly on trade with the “New World.”
That certainly accounts for a number of aspects of Latin American Spanish (s rather than Castilian th, etc.) and probably for the persistence of architectural attitudes and details that survived the fall of Moorish power for a long time…even to today!