monastère du barroux 84 Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/monastere-du-barroux-84 Wed, 07 Sep 2016 11:43:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 ABBAYE DE STE-MADELEINE FRANCE http://toursmaps.com/abbaye-de-ste-madeleine-france.html http://toursmaps.com/abbaye-de-ste-madeleine-france.html#respond Wed, 07 Sep 2016 22:36:52 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=221054 Abbaye de Ste-Madeleine c. 1120-38 CHURCH VEZELAY, FRANCE ARCHITECT UNKNOWN The basilica of St. Mary Magdalene, Vezelay, is one of the greatest examples of Romanesque architecture, a style influenced in part by Roman buildings and fashionable in Europe during the 11th and 12th centuries. In creating this style masons drew several elements from the Romans and the early Christian builders who followed them. Foremost among these was the idea of the basilica, consisting of a long nave with side aisles separated from it by rows of semicircular arches. From the same tradition they also took round-topped windows without tracery and

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