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Luxury travel to Scandinavia

editor — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 12:19:00 +0000

The new church, built of brick and Swedish granite, was modelled after some of the German cathedrals and the churches of Lund and Ribe. Its most characteristic features are the twin towers with their pyramidal roofs, visible from afar. A few Romanesque sculptured stones have been built into the external walls including the two lions flanking a window in the apse. The INTERIOR is dominated by the Biblical wall paintings of Joakim Skovgaard (1901-6): in the aisles. Old Testament scenes; in the transepts, scenes from the life of Christ; in the choir, the Resurrection and the Ascension. The ceiling paintings,

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Holiday in Scandinavia

editor — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 08:34:00 +0000

The Four Countries The topographical pattern of Scandinavia has been produced by a great variety of factors geological structure, mountain formation, ice action, climate and vegetation. The boundaries between the different countries and their administrative subdivisions, however, are not always clearly defined by nature: much sharper is the distinction between the rocky and morainic mountains and hills on the one hand and the lower land occupied by lakes and rivers, and it is the intricate intermingling of these different elements that gives the landscape of Scandinavia its pattern. A further element is contributed by the farms, mostly still timber-built, which

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