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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 827229" data-attributes="member: 53455">Venerable old stones in Provence (2022)In the border region between France and Italy, near the towns of Menton and Ventimiglia, the Alps come right up to the Mediterranean coastline and fall very sharply into the sea, with few very narrow and enclosed valleys. It can take quite a long time to drive between villages that can almost see each other and would be quite close if one were traveling as the bird flies.The small Romanesque church known as the Madonna del Poggio (“Madonna of the Well”) was built around 1050. It is a private property and even my most knowledgeable contacts in the area could not dig up or locate a current owner (or anyone with a key!), in the wake of several deaths within a family now mostly established, it seems, in Corsica. Obviously, the owners do not care much for the wonderful piece of History they own. In cases like that, I would encourage a legal procedure enabling the State or local authorities to seize the property and altogether dispossess the undeserving owners!Anyway, it was first a parochial church, then it was donated by the local lord to the Benedictine abbey of Lérins and became one of its many priories, as it appears on a list of the abbey’s possessions drawn up in 1092.Its three apses are decorated with those bandes lombardes I already mention, and which identify for sure a church dating from the premier art roman (First Romanesque Art), i.e., around Year 1000–50.Nikon Z7 II, Micro-Nikkor 45mm, ƒ/2.8 D PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head.[ATTACH=full]413202[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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