With beautiful St. Patrick’s Church in the background, this is what spring looked like during a recent trip to San Francisco during a brief walk through the Yerba Buena Gardens. On Today’s Date in the Past: Skinny Rule #19: Sleep Right Loose Park on Prom Night You Might Also Enjoy: Other Church Posts Other Spring […]
The Santa Maria delle Grazie is a church and Dominican convent in Milan, Italy. One of its claims to fame is the 15th century mural of The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. Although it was one of the few walls of the to survive WWII bombings, the mural is decaying so quickly that only a […]
After visiting the Milan Cathedral, we wandered through the busy, graffitied streets of Milan, Italy and stumbled upon the remains of a Romanesque church built in the 5th Century. All but this partial portion of a wall was demolished in 1949 in order to accommodate a growing city and additional roads. On Today’s Date in […]
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The Milan Cathedral, or Duomo di Milano, is the fifth largest cathedral in the world and the largest in Italy. American author, Mark Twain, visited the Milan Cathedral in the summer of 1867 and described it as “So grand, so solemn, so vast! And yet so delicate, so airy, so graceful! A very world of […]
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