Visit The Netherlands 2/4

 

Keukenhof (Click link, enlace, lien)

Keukenhof the world's largest Floral Garden.

Keukenhof means Kitchen Garden, also known as the Garden of Europe, is one of the world's largest flower gardens, situated in the municipality of Lisse, in the Netherlands.

 In the 15th-century it was the castle's kitchen garden (in Dutch: keukentuin), providing game, fruit and vegetables. Keukenhof, the park, as it is now known today, was established in 1949 by a consortium of bulb growers and flower exporters to showcase their products and support the export industry. The garden opened to the public in 1950. Each autumn, 40 gardeners plant the 7 million bulbs, donated to the park by over 100 growers. Planting starts early October and is usually completed by 5 December, around Sinterklaas. The flowerbeds are synchronised to the different bulb flowerings to ensure blooms throughout the duration of park's 8-week opening. To ensure continuous bloom, three bulbs are planted in each location. The shallowest bulb will bloom first for three weeks, followed by the subsequent layers. This technique is known as the "lasagne". 

Keukenhof (Click link, enlace, lien)

Visiting The Netherlands 1/4

Zaanse Schans (Click link, enlace, lien)

a picturesque village near Amsterdam famous for its iconic windmills.

It is best known for its collection of well-preserved historic windmills and houses.

Names of the mills from left to right: Het Jonge Schaap ("The Young Sheep"), De Zoeker ("The Seeker"), De Kat ("The Cat"), De Gekroonde Poelenburg ("The Crowned Poelenburg") and De Huisman ("The Houseman").

Zaanse Schans (link, enlace, lien)

Visit C... & Basilica of Saint-Remi

 

Notre Dame de Reims & Basilica of Saint-Remi (Click link, enlace, lien)

Notre Dame de Reims.

Notre-Dame de Reims, meaning "Our Lady of Reims", sometimes known in English as Reims Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the French city of the same name. The cathedral was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and was the traditional location for the coronation of the kings of France.

 The cathedral church is thought to have been founded by the bishop Nicasius in the early 5th century. Clovis was baptized a Christian here by Saint Remigius, the bishop of Reims, about a century later. He was the first Frankish king to receive this sacrament. Construction of the present Reims Cathedral began in the 13th century and concluded in the 15th century. A prominent example of High Gothic architecture, it was built to replace an earlier church destroyed by fire in 1210. Although little damaged during the French Revolution, the present cathedral saw extensive restoration in the 19th century. It was severely damaged during World War I and the church was again restored in the 20th century.. 

Basilica of Saint-Remi (UNESCO World Heritage Site).

The Basilica of Saint-Remi (French: Basilique Saint-Remi) is a medieval abbey church in Reims, France. It was founded in the 11th century "over the chapel of St. Christophe where St. Remi was buried.

The Basilica of Saint-Remi dates from the 11th, 12th, 13th and 15th centuries. The eleventh-century nave and transepts, in the Romanesque style, are the oldest; the façade of the south transept is the most recent. Most of the construction of the church finished in the 11th century, with additions made later. The nave and transepts, Gothic in style, date mainly from the earliest, the façade of the south transept from the latest of those periods, the choir and apse chapels from the 12th and 13th centuries.[4]

Basilica of Saint-Remi (Click link, enlace, lien)

Visite du Château de Sedan on a cold and grey day

Château de Sedan (link, enlace, lien).

The Château de Sedan is a castle situated in Sedan, France, on a headland on the border of the river Meuse, in the Ardennes département of France. Solid and imposing, Sedan castle dominates the town with its impressive stature. It took one and a half centuries, starting in 1424 and with successive additions, to build this monument, the largest feudal fortress in Europe. In 1424, in the early 15th century,  Evrard d'Arenberg, Count of Marck, began building a very powerful castle on a rocky outcrop around the remains of the church of St. Martin. This castle, consisting of a large number of towers and buildings built over several centuries, was part of the Principality of Sedan where several La Marck princes succeeded each other over half a century.

Château de Sedan (link, enlace, lien)

Promenade à Gand

Promenade à Gand (link, enlace, lien)

Ghent, Dutch: Gent ; French: Gand ; German: Gent ) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province and after Antwerp the largest municipality of Belgium. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Leie and in the Late Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe with some 50,000 people in 1300. It is a port and university city.

Promenade à Gand (link, enlace, lien)

DINOpaseo con el paleontólogo Miguel Ángel Torrente

DINOpaseo en El Castellar (link, enlace, lien)

El Castellar is a municipality located in the province of Teruel, Aragon region in Spain.

Aragon and particularly Teruel has the richest paleontological deposits in Spain found so far. One of them is located in the village of El Castellar, recently inaugurated, with more than sixty deposits, as well as bones! According to Miguel Torrente, paleontologist, from the Foundation of "Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis", even paleontologists from America are starting to pay attention to the studies done here in Spain.

Of course I invite you to come to discover this beautiful unknown province of Spain

DINOpaseo en El Castellar (link, enlace, lien)

Pensée Nomade by Guy Lorgneret

Pensée Nomade (link, enlace, lien)

Guy Lorgeret is a French visual artist. The sculptures represent women on dugouts, migrating, claiming their freedom. Years ago the same women started their journey on foot, then later, on bicycles.

Nomades, the women of G. Lorgeret want to invite you to travel with them.

The artist doesn't get tired with his nomades "more than 10 years I go along with them". Don't try to find where they come from, perhaps can you just imagine where they are going to. 

"The whole idea is to travel with them".

Les femmes de Guy Lorgeret invitent au voyage. L'artiste ne s'en lasse pas, « cela fait dix ans que je les accompagne ». Inutile, en revanche, de chercher à savoir d'où elles viennent, mais peut-être pouvons-nous imaginer où elles vont, « l'idée, c'est de voyager avec elles ».
      Enjoy.

Pensée Nomade (link, enlace, lien)

If you want to see more go to Guy Lorgeret website