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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 822560" data-attributes="member: 53455">Thanks guys for your visits and kind comments.Today’s photo is about a giant Romanesque cathedral built in the middle of nowhere, on an island between mainland France and the Mediterranean Sea (nowadays, it is a peninsula reachable by road). Truly a monument out of one of those role-playing fantasy games we used to play, like the Ultima or Might &amp; Magic series. The bishopric of Maguelone was created there in 533, no one really knows why, as the place is really completely out of the way. To defend against the raids of Muslim Barbaresque pirates, the cathedral that we can still see today was built like a fortress from 1030, on the ruins of the previous one from the 6th century, of which nothing remains. When he visits the island in 1096, Pope Urbanus II declares the recently completed cathedral “second only to the basilica in Rome”. Although largely amputated throughout the centuries, Maguelone remains an extremely impressive and atmospheric monument: visit it once, remember it all your life.Photo of 2010, Nikon D3, Nikkor 24-70mm ƒ/2.8 G lens.[ATTACH=full]408562[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 822560, member: 53455"] Thanks guys for your visits and kind comments. Today’s photo is about a giant Romanesque cathedral built in the middle of nowhere, on an island between mainland France and the Mediterranean Sea (nowadays, it is a peninsula reachable by road). Truly a monument out of one of those role-playing fantasy games we used to play, like the [I]Ultima[/I] or [I]Might & Magic[/I] series. The bishopric of Maguelone was created there in 533, no one really knows why, as the place is really completely out of the way. To defend against the raids of Muslim Barbaresque pirates, the cathedral that we can still see today was built like a fortress from 1030, on the ruins of the previous one from the 6th century, of which nothing remains. When he visits the island in 1096, Pope Urbanus II declares the recently completed cathedral “second only to the basilica in Rome”. Although largely amputated throughout the centuries, Maguelone remains an extremely impressive and atmospheric monument: visit it once, remember it all your life. Photo of 2010, Nikon D3, Nikkor 24-70mm ƒ/2.8 G lens. [ATTACH type="full"]408562[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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