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 foreign climes

Florence Cathedral (Santa Maria del Fiore)

N (the letter; ca 1500)

Devprayag: The Divine Confluence at the Head of the Ganges River

Palmanova, Italy: A Most Beautiful Village

vintage scenes and map of Benin

Ranelagh Gardens, Chelsea, England (1754; Thomas Bowles)

Albolafia water mill, Cordoba, Spain (9th century)

end of a tiring day shopping on Al-Qattanin street, Jerusalem

Happy New Year! Let's hope for a better 2026.

San Gimignano, Italy: a medieval hill town

Li River, Yangshuo, Guilin, Guanxi, China

back to Conques, Aveyron, France

Sidon Sea Castle, Sidon, Lebanon (erected 1288 AD)

Benin

Beautiful nature on Prayer Mountain in the Philippines

Conques Abbey: a medieval pilgrimage town

Borneo beauties and their handsome escorts

a most beautiful Italian village: Castelmezzano

Buddha (detail of an ancient Dazu Rock Carving)

abandoned hamlet of Occi, Corsica