Places

A misty autumn morning across the lake at <n>Stourhead</n>, a <n>National Trust</n> property.

This is Verona, Italy. 

Beneath street level lies a 1st-century BC Roman city, hidden just below today’s world.

A boat on the water lily pond in <n>Claude Monet's garden</n>.

The <n>Farsh House</n> in Iran, a design inspired by the traditional Persian carpet.

A 19th-century <n>Gothic Revival folly tower</n> near <n>Castelnuovo Don Bosco</n>, Italy.

The rolling green hills of <n>Val d'Orcia</n> in Tuscany, Italy.

Kahel village, Haraz Mountains, Yemen. From the book Yemen by Lyle Lawson & Joachim Chwaszcza

10 Breathtaking Medieval Italian Monasteries — A Thread 🧵

1/ Abbey of San Galgano, Tuscany, ca. 1180.

The 900-year-old <n>St Helen's Church Door</n> in <n>Stillingfleet</n>, Yorkshire.

900-year-old door of St Helen's Church, Yorkshire, England.

Imagine what your guests will say when they see your fireplace is the mouth of a dragon.

<n>Santa Maria Del Naranco</n>, a 9th-century palace built by <n>King Ramiro I</n> in the <n>Asturian pre-Romanesque</n> style.

Il Gigante, the colossal 14-meter-tall statue of Neptune in Monterosso al Mare, is one of Liguria’s most intriguing landmarks, sculpted in 1910 by Arrigo Minerbi.

The <n>National Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche</n> at <n>Mission Nombre de Dios</n> in St. Augustine, Florida.

This weekend, our family visited the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche in St. Augustine, FL, the oldest shrine in the U.S., first built in 1609.

A view of the interior of the <n>Palais des Nations</n> in Geneva.

Don't be rude. Every imposition devoid of grace is doomed to collapse.

The <n>Fairy Glen</n> on the <n>Isle of Skye</n> in Scotland.