Cultures and Art in English: history

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Toledo Cathedral

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Dear Friends,

You cannot imagine how gratified and happy I am to have achieved such a satisfactory result from my recent research!

The consequence was a file with images selected from 456 photos that I brought from the Internet into my PC among the thousands I saw - one by one.

No, I could not miss the opportunity to do this formatting and offer this gift to those who are excited about art - from Gothic to Neogothic - and/or those who are religious!

Except for some scholars of that Cathedral, to all those who have visited that monument of Art I assure, without false modesty, they will find innumerable unknown details, even if I tried to be concise.

Some of the slides, by the extension of the respective captions, have no advance dynamics, but this will not prevent you from going forward when you wish.

The music may not be to everyone's liking, but the purpose was to format the file "au grand complet".

It's good to remember that religious terms do not represent great difficulty to us in Portuguese, but - poor Claudia! - suffered a lot in the English version. Who told her not to be baptized in the UK?

Worth as my Christmas gift to you, and with much care,

Delza

Viennese Blood

Presentation in 2 volumes:

PART 1:

Click picture above or HERE to download VIENNESE BLOOD - PART 1 file in English.

PART 2:

Click picture above or HERE to download VIENNESE BLOOD - PART 2 file in English.

Dear friends,

Always thanking you for the good reception you have been granting to my work, I want to tell you that, this time, even I was amazed by how much material about the capital of Austria it was possible to compile and bring for you to review or, if it’s the case, to know.

At the beginning of the research I understood that for twice I simply "touristed" around in Vienna without realizing how much there was to dazzle me there.

Confessing it was a pleasurable work, but also exhausting, I send to you the final formatting necessarily divided in two volumes.

With affection,

Delza

Coimbra, Portugal

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Coimbra.

Yes, Coimbra.

Although a granddaughter of a Lisboan grandmother and having one of my dearest virtual friends living and loving the city of Porto, I chose Coimbra.

It was so because in my heart Portugal is only one, and for having always admired the traditions of the University of Coimbra, I could not resist the temptation to format that city.

To research the immeasurable treasure that its Library is gave me a kind of devotion by so much beauty, art and culture it shelters.

I hope you enjoy "my" Coimbra.

With the ever affection to you all, dear friends,

Delza

Versailles Palace

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Dear friends,

Exactly eight months ago, slowly and attentively, I started researching material for producing the courage to format Versailles. The more images collected, the more I understood how far was the possibility of covering the magnificence that coated the Bourbon dynasty at that Castle.

From the long pauses by tiredness resulted some of those files that demanded a lot less from me and which I called "recreational".

I was very close from giving up, but went back to further attempts until, accepting to reduce my pretension and focus only the major highlights of the palace itself, I dedicated myself, finally, to achieve my goal.

Who already knows, knows that what there is to see is so much, that what one can see is so much - and therefore get out of there with everything mixed in memory - and still so much is left to see, I can assure you that just now I could understand Versailles a little more than at the times I have been there physically. Without modesty, I affirm that the same may happen to some of you.

Without further comments, "my" Versailles Palace to so dear friends.

Always with much care,

Delza

Budapest - part one of 3

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To my dear friends,

Budapest has corners, nooks and charms to be explored through the Net even when I'm already in the asylum! Nothing passionate me more! I'm not flighty, but I demote in the podium "my" beloved Prague, Florence and the Forbidden City to crown Budapest as champion!

It was really a great challenge to dive into the immeasurable wealth of available material; so, by sheer exhaustion, I declared ended the research after the 1.67 GB composed of 1,336 image archives that I brought into my PC. Even so, the compilation was very enjoyable; difficult, very difficult, was to elect - without the aid of a jury... lol - the 150 finalists, because to each classified photo, I found myself obliged to commit the crime of neglect 8 or more.

Finally, exultant for the wonder that I got to know photographically and by reading, I achieved to format and bring you the first volume of three that will be needed for a minimum composition of the divine Budapest image.

With much joy and my love,

Delza