69 Search Results for "dome"

• Uffizi View

  • From: rschoeff
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    This is a view from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence Italy.  Below is the Uffizi mall.  There are often some very interesting street performers in the mall area. The tower in the center belongs to the Palazzo Vecchio.  Slightly to the left and in the distance you see the dome of the Florence Duomo.  If you like art, you will love the Uffizi.  We only spent a day going through it and were very rushed.  It could easily take a week to thoroughly enjoy it.  I believe this section of Florence is or was at one time considered to be the heart of Florence.

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• Michelangelo's Blue Dome i

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• Halft Dome at Sunset

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• Half Dome at Sunset

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• Reflection of Half Dome at Sun

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• Half Dome Yosemite Nat. Park

  • From: nco4242
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    Half Dome viewed from Horseback on trail ride

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• The Reichstag in the snow

  • From: ehochberg
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    My wife and I traveled to Berlin with my parents last December. We visited the Reichstag on what had to be one of the coldest days since our arrival. It began to snow. The top of the Reichstag is open and the snow falls into the dome. There's a ramp winding up along the inside of the dome which people can walk along to the top. My parents and wife set out for the top and I snapped this picture.

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• Florence Duomo

  • From: rschoeff
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    We stayed in a hotel just down the street from the Duomo.  We walked everywhere in Florence, so we were able to see these fascinating buildings several times a day.  The detail in the Duomo architecture is amazing.  The building to the left is the baptistry.  The Duomo is the building in the center with it's dome towering above.  To the right is Giotto's bell tower.  You can see that there was some reconstruction occurring at the very top.  There was also renovation occurring on one of the sides that you can't see in this picture.  The inside may be even more beautiful than the outside.  Well worth a visit.

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• Pantheon Dome

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• Jerusalem

  • From: ktvedo
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    There is a great view of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives. It was an incredible feeling to look out over the Dome of the Rock and over a city I've wanted to visit since childhood.

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• Tina in Tuscany, Fienze that i

  • From: tgpatterson
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    Meeting new friends at a Wine bar on the roof of Firenze hotel during sunset.  The bells were ringing and the moment was magical.

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• Climatron at Shaws Gardens

  • From: GL Salava
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    The Missouri Botanical Gardens (MOB), located in Saint Louis is one of the finest gardens in the States.  R. Buckmister-Fullers Climatron is a Geodesic constructed climate controlled tropical wonderland.  We often go there in the wintertime to get a beak from the winter blahs.  Japanese, Chinese, English, Moroccian Gardens are some of the different gardens within the MBO.  The glass globes are from the Chuley exhibit a few years ago. 

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• Dolmabahçe Mosque's Interior D

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• Hagia Sophia

  • From: fnjp
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    Hagia Sophia interior dome renovations. The size of the scaffold gives one a vague idea of the size of this magnificent building.

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• West Baden Springs Resort

  • From: rdon47630
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    Sometimes you come across something that just defies vocalization. In instances such as this only pictures will convey the absolute beauty of the moment. Such was the day we came upon West Baden Springs..Carlsbad of America. What history and monumental architectural beauty. First of all I would like to give you a little history of this awesome place.
    
    
    
    The West Baden Springs Hotel is a historic landmark hotel in the town of West Baden Springs in Orange County, Indiana, USA known for its vast domed atrium. It is currently part of the French Lick Resort Casino complex. Prior to the completion of the Assembly Hall at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1963, the building had the largest free-spanning dome in the United States and was the largest in the world from 1902 to 1913. It was listed on the National Register Of Historic Places in 1974, became a National Historic Landmark in 1987 and is a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.
    
    In 1778, George Rogers Clark is thought to have discovered the area's mineral springs and salt licks. The region's reputation as a mineral springs resort area began with the building of the first French Lick Springs Hotel in 1832.In 1852, John Lane built a hotel on a site near the town of Mile Lick that he named the Mile Lick Inn. The town was renamed West Baden in 1855, so Lane changed the hotel name to the West Baden Inn. In 1887, the Monon railroad built an extension to take guests to the springs and the hotel. By the late 1800's, seven railroads brought guests from all over the country to the Springs Valley^[2] for relaxation and the alleged curative powers of the mineral water.

    A group that included Lee Wiley Sinclair from Salem, Indiana acquired controlling interest in the hotel in 1888. Sinclair soon became sole owner and transformed it into a sophisticated resort, including an opera house, a casino and a two-deck, covered, one-third-mile oval bicycle and pony track. A lighted baseball diamond in the center of the track became the spring training grounds for several major league teams including the Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates. Fire destroyed the entire hotel building in less than two hours in June, 1901; however, no guests were injured. Owner Lee Sinclair declared that the new hotel would be fireproof and would have the world's largest dome. Most professionals in the architectural community considered it impossible, but unknown West Virginia architect Harrison Albright completed the new West Baden Springs Hotel on time. The new structure opened in September 1902 and if the advertisements and artcles about the new hotel were true, the facility deserved being called the Eighth Wonder of the World. It was claimed that the resort's mineral baths and drinking waters could cure everything from sterility to senility. The hotel's amenities included two golf courses, billiards, bowling, baseball, swimming, horseback riding, bicycling and hiking on scenic trails, movies and nightly theatre. On-site personal services included a stock brokerage, banking and a barbershop. Birds flew freely in the 200-foot-diameter atrium, and an enormous fireplace burned 14-foot logs to take the chill off on cool evenings

    
    

    Notable guests

    Paul Dresser is rumored to have composed Indiana's state song "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" at the hotel. Boxers John L. Sullivan and James J. Corbett trained there. Al Cpone was a frequent guest as was Diamond Jim Brady. Politicans included Mayor "Big Bill" Thompson of Chicago and New York Governor Alfred E. Smith. Professional baseball teams even held their spring training at the resort

    A massive renovation effort was begun in 1913, but Sinclair died in 1916. His daughter and her husband took over the hotel's operation and restoration. Overextended by the refurbishment, Lillian Sinclair sold the property to Ed Ballard for $1 million in 1923. Ballard, who began his career as a bowling alley worker in the hotel, made a fortune by operating a flourishing, albeit illegal gambling business in the Springs Valley. Ballard also owned several nationally recognized touring circuses. The rise of the automobile and resorts in Florida drew business away from the West Baden Springs Hotel, but Ballard aggressively promoted the hotel to conventioneers and trade exhibitions. The Wall Street Crash of 1929 spelled the end of the hotel. As word of the plummeting market spread, people gathered in the brokerage firm's offices at the hotel, which emptied of guests almost overnight. Ballard closed the hotel in June 1932 and sold it to the Jesuits for one dollar in 1934
    
    The Jesuits removed many of the building's elegant appointments when they transformed the hotel into a seminary. The four Moorish towers were dismantled when they fell into disrepair. Known as West Baden College, the seminary operated until June, 1964 when declining enrollment forced the Jesuits to close the facility. In 1966, the Jesuits sold the property to a Michigan couple who in turn donated it to Norwood Institute, a private college, which operated a business management school on the property until 1983 Vacant after 1983, the building slipped into extreme decay, resulting in the collapse of a good portion of the west wall in 1991. In 1992, the National Trust for Historic Preservation listed the hotel as one of America's most endangered places. Bill Cook, a Bloomington, Indiana, entrepreneur and billionaire, financed a partial restoration of the property by the Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana which assumed ownership in 1996. It was marketed nationally for almost ten years without a buyer and over 400,000 visitors toured the hotel. In 2006, title was transferred to a subsidiary of Bill Cook's Cook Group to become a part of the French Lick Resort Casion development. In May 2007, the building began hosting guests as a hotel in 246 luxury rooms for the first time since 1932. (Source Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Baden_Springs_Hotel)
    
    There are 30 Jesuit graves in a small cemetary located adjacent to the hote still under the ownership and maintained by the Jesuite Order. The racehorse Peter the Great, owned by Ed Ballard and sired 600 offspring is also buried on the grounds.
    
    The resort once boasted a large covered multilevel track. The lower level was for exercising the horses and ponies, while the middle level was a bike and walking track. The upper level hosted a view of the full size baseball field located in the center of the track. This structure was destroyed in 1927 and was never rebuilt. It stood near and connected to the pavilion which is the only part of the structure left.
    
    I hope you enjoy this photographic tour as much as we did seeing it ourselves. This would be a great destination spot with plenty of things to do on site as well as in the immediate area.
    
    
    

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    THE CHAPEL
    

    
    
    
    

    THE PAVILION
    

    
    
    
    
    

    THE REAR OF THE HOTEL
    

    
    

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• Rainbow at Sunset -- Lembert D

  • From: mingojct
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    Double duty on this one.    The shot is taken from Tuolumne Meadow, looking east toward Lembert Dome at sunset.    It had been raining, but the sun was hitting the top of Lembert.

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• Yosemite: View of Half Dome fr

  • From: ScurrilousJ
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    We spent three days in Yosemite National Park on our May 2009 honeymoon. Due to unseasonably warm weather, the road to Glacier Point had just recently been opened, so we drove up to the point for the fabulous view of Yosemite Valley and Half Dome. I was personally excited to see snow still on the ground - I had never walked in snow! (I'm from Florida.)

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• Half Dome from Mount Hoffmann,

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• Yosemite's Half Dome

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    View of Half Dome Yosemite Valley carved by glaciers during Ice Ages 

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• Chef's Table onboard Caribbean

  • From: becktours
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    We all have our reasons we love to cruise.  For me, besides the exciting ports of call, it's being wined and dined and letting someone else do the cooking and cleaning for a week or more. I just spent a week on the Caribbean Princess sailing to New England and Canada.  I have sailed Princess Cruise Lines several times, but passed on an opportunity I will never turn down again, The Chef's Table.  

    For the cost of $75 per person diners are treated to an unforgettable and delicious experience.   The meal is specially prepared by the head chef himself. I had been reluctant in the past to pay that fee, but after this experience will gladly pay it again and again.    

    Our evening began with an invitation to meet Maitre D' Giuseppe Franchina outside the International Cafe on deck 5.  We were then given lab coats and escorted through the dining room into the Galley.  Giuseppe introduced us to Executive Chef Antonio Cereda.  This is where the fun began.  A select staff began pouring us champagne and bringing out appetizers one after another. Each appetizer was specially prepared only for us by Chef Cereda.  They included caviar, salmon tartar and king crab margaritas to name a few.  We spent about 45 minutes in the galley before being escorted to a special section of the dining room set up just for the Chef's Table group.  

    

     

    A word of advice, you are going to be served many delicious delicacies, so you may not want to eat much before you go, if anything at all.  The food kept coming and each course was better than the last.  Once seated at our table we were given our first course, baked parmesan dumplings.  Next came my favorite course, raspberry ginger sherbet topped with Grey Goose Vodka.  This helped cleanse the palate and prepare us for the incredible main course.

    
    

    Chef Cereda then brought out a "trio of beef, veal and pork on a medieval spike". He flamed the meat for show and added taste.  If that wasn't enough, Head Waiter Tomasz then placed a lobster tail on each of our plates.  Did I mention that during this entire meal the wine was flowing?  We were offered white, red and a dessert wine.  By dessert we were all feeling the effects of the alcohol and had a great deal of fun with our last course.  We were presented with an elegant dome which turned out to be made of spun sugar. Chef Cereda lifted the dome to reveal "iced amaretto strawberry parfait with fresh berries". The bowl securing this delicious dessert was also made of sugar.  After devouring the parfait we all started to break apart and eat the sugar bowl.  

    

    Once the meal was complete a ship's photographer took a group picture and individual photos.  He returned about 20 minutes later with our complimentary pictures and Chef Cereda and Maitre D' Franchina presented the ladies with roses and each couple signed cookbooks.  

    If you decide to take part in the Chef's Table sign up the second you arrive onboard your Princess ship. Only 12 people are selected per night and in our case they only offered the Chef's Table two nights.  If you love being wined and dined don't pass up this truly incredible experience.

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