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  • Apartment blocks beside a pond with reeds in the Parc Clichy-Batignolles - Martin Luther-King, a new development of parkland and buildings developed since 2007 and set to cover 10 hectares in size, in the Batignolles area of the 17th arrondissement of Paris, France. The area has been developed from a large railway freight yard district and is a sustainable development with green space, many natural ecosystems and renewable energy sources. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber roseus) beside the reeds in the Nouvelle Grande Voliere or new aviary in the Zone Sahel-Soudan of the new Parc Zoologique de Paris or Zoo de Vincennes, (Zoological Gardens of Paris or Vincennes Zoo), which reopened April 2014, part of the Musee National d'Histoire Naturelle (National Museum of Natural History), 12th arrondissement, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Buildings on the river banks in the ancient village of Bourg, built in Roman times at the confluence of the Dordogne and Garonne rivers, fortified by medieval walls, on the Gironde Estuary, Aquitaine, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ruined house on the Ebro Delta, Tarragona, Spain. The Ebro Delta is the main coastal delta of the Iberian Peninsula with a variety of different ecosystems including lagoons, sand dunes, salt marsh and rice fields which cover around 15000 hectares. It lies in the spot where the Ebro river reaches the Mediterranean Sea at the northern point of the Gulf of Valencia. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • El Charco Azul de Chulilla, a natural blue pool in the Turia river, at Chulilla, in Los Serranos, Valencia, Spain. Under Moorish rule in the 12th century, a weir was built to irrigate the orchards of the town, and the pool remains, with a jetty and dilapidated walkway around the cliff. The pool is on a circular walking route around the town. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Apartment blocks beside a pond at the Parc Clichy-Batignolles - Martin Luther-King, a new development of parkland and buildings developed since 2007 and set to cover 10 hectares in size, in the Batignolles area of the 17th arrondissement of Paris, France. The area has been developed from a large railway freight yard district and is a sustainable development with green space, many natural ecosystems and renewable energy sources. In the distance is the new law courts or Tribunal de Paris, designed by Renzo Piano and built 2014-17 on the Avenue de la Porte de Clichy. It contains the high court of Paris, the police court, the public prosecution service and all Parisian district courts. It is 38 storeys high and resembles 3 stacked blocks reducing in size with height on top of the main building. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Apartment blocks surrounding the Parc Clichy-Batignolles - Martin Luther-King, a new development of parkland and buildings developed since 2007 and set to cover 10 hectares in size, in the Batignolles area of the 17th arrondissement of Paris, France. The area has been developed from a large railway freight yard district and is a sustainable development with green space, many natural ecosystems and renewable energy sources. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Apartment blocks beside a pond in the Parc Clichy-Batignolles - Martin Luther-King, a new development of parkland and buildings developed since 2007 and set to cover 10 hectares in size, in the Batignolles area of the 17th arrondissement of Paris, France. The area has been developed from a large railway freight yard district and is a sustainable development with green space, many natural ecosystems and renewable energy sources. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Apartment blocks and boardwalk beside a pond at the Parc Clichy-Batignolles - Martin Luther-King, a new development of parkland and buildings developed since 2007 and set to cover 10 hectares in size, in the Batignolles area of the 17th arrondissement of Paris, France. The area has been developed from a large railway freight yard district and is a sustainable development with green space, many natural ecosystems and renewable energy sources. In the distance on the left is the new law courts or Tribunal de Paris, designed by Renzo Piano and built 2014-17 on the Avenue de la Porte de Clichy. It contains the high court of Paris, the police court, the public prosecution service and all Parisian district courts. It is 38 storeys high and resembles 3 stacked blocks reducing in size with height on top of the main building. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Patrick Chauvet, rector, opening mass for the Veneration of the Crown of Thorns, or Veneration de la Sainte Couronne d’Epines, on Friday 29th March 2019, by the Ordre des Chevaliers du Saint Sepulcre, or the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, guardians of the relics of Christ's Passion since 1920, in the Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris, or Notre-Dame cathedral, built 1163-1345 in French Gothic style, on the Ile de la Cite in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France. The crown of thorns has been held in Paris since 1239 and at Notre-Dame since 1806, along with a piece of the true cross and a nail from the crucifixion. The crown is held in a tubular reliquary of crystal and gold, with a perforated frame depicting a branch of zizyphus or Spina Christi, made by silversmith M Poussielgue-Rusand, 1861-1933, after drawings by J-G Astruc, 1862-1950. The veneration ceremony usually takes place on the first Friday of each month, every Friday of Lent, and on Good Friday. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Temple du Souvenir Indochinois, with red walls and columns and overhanging eaves, destroyed by fire in 1984 and rebuilt on a smaller model in 1992, on the Dinh Esplanade, built for the 1907 Colonial Exhibition, in the Jardin d'Agronomie Tropicale, or Garden of Tropical Agronomy, in the Bois de Vincennes in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The garden was first established in 1899 to conduct agronomical experiments on plants of French colonies. In 1907 it was the site of the Colonial Exhibition and many pavilions were built or relocated here. The garden has since become neglected and many structures overgrown, damaged or destroyed, with most of the tropical vegetation disappeared. The site is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Temple du Souvenir Indochinois, with red walls and columns and overhanging eaves, destroyed by fire in 1984 and rebuilt on a smaller model in 1992, on the Dinh Esplanade, built for the 1907 Colonial Exhibition, in the Jardin d'Agronomie Tropicale, or Garden of Tropical Agronomy, in the Bois de Vincennes in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. In the foreground is a bronze funerary urn, copy of the urns at the Imperial Palace at Hue, Vietnam. The garden was first established in 1899 to conduct agronomical experiments on plants of French colonies. In 1907 it was the site of the Colonial Exhibition and many pavilions were built or relocated here. The garden has since become neglected and many structures overgrown, damaged or destroyed, with most of the tropical vegetation disappeared. The site is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Temple du Souvenir Indochinois, with red walls and columns and overhanging eaves, destroyed by fire in 1984 and rebuilt on a smaller model in 1992, on the Dinh Esplanade in the Jardin d'Agronomie Tropicale, or Garden of Tropical Agronomy, in the Bois de Vincennes in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The garden was first established in 1899 to conduct agronomical experiments on plants of French colonies. In 1907 it was the site of the Colonial Exhibition and many pavilions were built or relocated here. The garden has since become neglected and many structures overgrown, damaged or destroyed, with most of the tropical vegetation disappeared. The site is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Temple du Souvenir Indochinois, with red walls and columns and overhanging eaves, destroyed by fire in 1984 and rebuilt on a smaller model in 1992, on the Dinh Esplanade in the Jardin d'Agronomie Tropicale, or Garden of Tropical Agronomy, in the Bois de Vincennes in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The garden was first established in 1899 to conduct agronomical experiments on plants of French colonies. In 1907 it was the site of the Colonial Exhibition and many pavilions were built or relocated here. The garden has since become neglected and many structures overgrown, damaged or destroyed, with most of the tropical vegetation disappeared. The site is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • River bank, and the 18th century Chartreuse or Castle Citadel, behind the medieval fortified walls, in the ancient village of Bourg, built in Roman times at the confluence of the Dordogne and Garonne rivers, on the Gironde Estuary, Aquitaine, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Walls of the ancient village of Bourg, built in Roman times at the confluence of the Dordogne and Garonne rivers, fortified by medieval walls, with the facade of the 18th century Chartreuse, or Castle Citadel above, on the Gironde Estuary, Aquitaine, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Gorica Bridge over the Osum river, which connects 2 parts of Berat, originally built in wood in 1780 and rebuilt in stone in the 1920s, in Berat, South-Central Albania, capital of the District of Berat and the County of Berat. The 7-arch bridge is 129 m long and 5.3m wide. According to local legend, the original wooden bridge contained a dungeon in which a girl would be incarcerated and starved to appease the spirits responsible for the safety of the bridge. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Santa Maria Cathedral or Cathedral of St Mary of Girona, Eiffel bridge and houses overlooking the river Onyar in the town of Girona, at the confluence of the rivers Ter, Onyar, Galligants and Guell, Catalonia, Spain. The cathedral was begun in the 11th century in Romanesque style, and later continued in the 14th century in Catalan Gothic style, redesigned by Pere Sacoma in 1312 and built by the school of Mallorcan architect Jaume Fabre. Of the original Romanesque building only the 12th century cloister and a bell tower remain. The cathedral was completed in the 18th century. Here we see the Baroque facade and new octagonal bell tower, begun in 1590 and completed in the 18th century, which houses 6 bells. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Apartment blocks beside a pond in the Parc Clichy-Batignolles - Martin Luther-King, a new development of parkland and buildings developed since 2007 and set to cover 10 hectares in size, in the Batignolles area of the 17th arrondissement of Paris, France. The area has been developed from a large railway freight yard district and is a sustainable development with green space, many natural ecosystems and renewable energy sources. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Apartment blocks beside a pond at the Parc Clichy-Batignolles - Martin Luther-King, a new development of parkland and buildings developed since 2007 and set to cover 10 hectares in size, in the Batignolles area of the 17th arrondissement of Paris, France. The area has been developed from a large railway freight yard district and is a sustainable development with green space, many natural ecosystems and renewable energy sources. In the distance on the left is the new law courts or Tribunal de Paris, designed by Renzo Piano and built 2014-17 on the Avenue de la Porte de Clichy. It contains the high court of Paris, the police court, the public prosecution service and all Parisian district courts. It is 38 storeys high and resembles 3 stacked blocks reducing in size with height on top of the main building. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Apartment blocks beside a pond in the Parc Clichy-Batignolles - Martin Luther-King, a new development of parkland and buildings developed since 2007 and set to cover 10 hectares in size, in the Batignolles area of the 17th arrondissement of Paris, France. The area has been developed from a large railway freight yard district and is a sustainable development with green space, many natural ecosystems and renewable energy sources. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Altar holding the Crown of Thorns, at the ceremony of the Veneration of the Crown of Thorns, or Veneration de la Sainte Couronne d’Epines, on Friday 29th March 2019, by the Ordre des Chevaliers du Saint Sepulcre, or the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, guardians of the relics of Christ's Passion since 1920, in the Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris, or Notre-Dame cathedral, built 1163-1345 in French Gothic style, on the Ile de la Cite in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France. The crown of thorns has been held in Paris since 1239 and at Notre-Dame since 1806, along with a piece of the true cross and a nail from the crucifixion. The crown is held in a tubular reliquary of crystal and gold, with a perforated frame depicting a branch of zizyphus or Spina Christi, made by silversmith M Poussielgue-Rusand, 1861-1933, after drawings by J-G Astruc, 1862-1950. The veneration ceremony usually takes place on the first Friday of each month, every Friday of Lent, and on Good Friday. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ceremony of the Veneration of the Crown of Thorns, or Veneration de la Sainte Couronne d’Epines, on Friday 29th March 2019, by the Ordre des Chevaliers du Saint Sepulcre, or the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, guardians of the relics of Christ's Passion since 1920, in the Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris, or Notre-Dame cathedral, built 1163-1345 in French Gothic style, on the Ile de la Cite in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France. The crown of thorns has been held in Paris since 1239 and at Notre-Dame since 1806, along with a piece of the true cross and a nail from the crucifixion. The crown is held in a tubular reliquary of crystal and gold, with a perforated frame depicting a branch of zizyphus or Spina Christi, made by silversmith M Poussielgue-Rusand, 1861-1933, after drawings by J-G Astruc, 1862-1950. The veneration ceremony usually takes place on the first Friday of each month, every Friday of Lent, and on Good Friday. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Temple du Souvenir Indochinois, with red walls and columns and overhanging eaves, destroyed by fire in 1984 and rebuilt on a smaller model in 1992, on the Dinh Esplanade, built for the 1907 Colonial Exhibition, in the Jardin d'Agronomie Tropicale, or Garden of Tropical Agronomy, in the Bois de Vincennes in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The garden was first established in 1899 to conduct agronomical experiments on plants of French colonies. In 1907 it was the site of the Colonial Exhibition and many pavilions were built or relocated here. The garden has since become neglected and many structures overgrown, damaged or destroyed, with most of the tropical vegetation disappeared. The site is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Temple du Souvenir Indochinois, with red walls and columns and overhanging eaves, destroyed by fire in 1984 and rebuilt on a smaller model in 1992, on the Dinh Esplanade in the Jardin d'Agronomie Tropicale, or Garden of Tropical Agronomy, in the Bois de Vincennes in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The garden was first established in 1899 to conduct agronomical experiments on plants of French colonies. In 1907 it was the site of the Colonial Exhibition and many pavilions were built or relocated here. The garden has since become neglected and many structures overgrown, damaged or destroyed, with most of the tropical vegetation disappeared. The site is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
    LC17_FRANCE_MC_1076.jpg
  • Temple du Souvenir Indochinois, with red walls and columns and overhanging eaves, destroyed by fire in 1984 and rebuilt on a smaller model in 1992, on the Dinh Esplanade in the Jardin d'Agronomie Tropicale, or Garden of Tropical Agronomy, in the Bois de Vincennes in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The garden was first established in 1899 to conduct agronomical experiments on plants of French colonies. In 1907 it was the site of the Colonial Exhibition and many pavilions were built or relocated here. The garden has since become neglected and many structures overgrown, damaged or destroyed, with most of the tropical vegetation disappeared. The site is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The Chartreuse or Castle Citadel, built in the 18th century on the site of previous castles, behind the medieval fortified walls, in the ancient village of Bourg, built in Roman times at the confluence of the Dordogne and Garonne rivers, on the Gironde Estuary, Aquitaine, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The river bank, and above, the church and medieval walls of the ancient village of Bourg, built in Roman times at the confluence of the Dordogne and Garonne rivers, on the Gironde Estuary, Aquitaine, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • River bank, and the Chartreuse or Castle Citadel, built in the 18th century on the site of previous castles, behind the medieval fortified walls, in the ancient village of Bourg, built in Roman times at the confluence of the Dordogne and Garonne rivers, on the Gironde Estuary, Aquitaine, France. Picture by Manuel Cohenr/
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  • Church spire and medieval walls of the ancient village of Bourg, built in Roman times at the confluence of the Dordogne and Garonne rivers, on the Gironde Estuary, Aquitaine, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Santa Maria Cathedral or Cathedral of St Mary of Girona, Eiffel bridge and houses overlooking the river Onyar in the town of Girona, at the confluence of the rivers Ter, Onyar, Galligants and Guell, Catalonia, Spain. The cathedral was begun in the 11th century in Romanesque style, and later continued in the 14th century in Catalan Gothic style, redesigned by Pere Sacoma in 1312 and built by the school of Mallorcan architect Jaume Fabre. Of the original Romanesque building only the 12th century cloister and a bell tower remain. The cathedral was completed in the 18th century. Here we see the Baroque facade and new octagonal bell tower, begun in 1590 and completed in the 18th century, which houses 6 bells. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fishermen's hut and nets drying, aerial view, at the Etang de Canet, Canet-en-Roussillon, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. There are 10 cabins, originally lived in by fishermen and now used for storage of trabaques or traditional fishing nets. The cabins are made from driftwood and reeds, which grow in the lake and are cut, dried and tied to make waterproof walls. They were traditionally divided into 3 rooms, a store for fishing equipment, a bedroom and a central living room and kitchen. Each hut lasts 18-25 years and the current ones were renovated in 1993. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fishermen's huts and nets drying, aerial view, at the Etang de Canet, Canet-en-Roussillon, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. There are 10 cabins, originally lived in by fishermen and now used for storage of trabaques or traditional fishing nets. The cabins are made from driftwood and reeds, which grow in the lake and are cut, dried and tied to make waterproof walls. They were traditionally divided into 3 rooms, a store for fishing equipment, a bedroom and a central living room and kitchen. Each hut lasts 18-25 years and the current ones were renovated in 1993. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fishermen's hut and nets drying, aerial view, at the Etang de Canet, Canet-en-Roussillon, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. There are 10 cabins, originally lived in by fishermen and now used for storage of trabaques or traditional fishing nets. The cabins are made from driftwood and reeds, which grow in the lake and are cut, dried and tied to make waterproof walls. They were traditionally divided into 3 rooms, a store for fishing equipment, a bedroom and a central living room and kitchen. Each hut lasts 18-25 years and the current ones were renovated in 1993. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fishermen's hut and nets drying, at the Etang de Canet, Canet-en-Roussillon, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. In the distance is the Pic du Canigou. The Canigou stands at 2784m and is the highest of the Eastern peaks of the Pyrenees. There are 10 cabins, originally lived in by fishermen and now used for storage of trabaques or traditional fishing nets. The cabins are made from driftwood and reeds, which grow in the lake and are cut, dried and tied to make waterproof walls. They were traditionally divided into 3 rooms, a store for fishing equipment, a bedroom and a central living room and kitchen. Each hut lasts 18-25 years and the current ones were renovated in 1993. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fishermen's hut and nets drying, at the Etang de Canet, Canet-en-Roussillon, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. There are 10 cabins, originally lived in by fishermen and now used for storage of trabaques or traditional fishing nets. The cabins are made from driftwood and reeds, which grow in the lake and are cut, dried and tied to make waterproof walls. They were traditionally divided into 3 rooms, a store for fishing equipment, a bedroom and a central living room and kitchen. Each hut lasts 18-25 years and the current ones were renovated in 1993. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fishermen's hut and nets drying, at the Etang de Canet, Canet-en-Roussillon, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. There are 10 cabins, originally lived in by fishermen and now used for storage of trabaques or traditional fishing nets. The cabins are made from driftwood and reeds, which grow in the lake and are cut, dried and tied to make waterproof walls. They were traditionally divided into 3 rooms, a store for fishing equipment, a bedroom and a central living room and kitchen. Each hut lasts 18-25 years and the current ones were renovated in 1993. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fishermen's hut and nets drying, at the Etang de Canet, Canet-en-Roussillon, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. There are 10 cabins, originally lived in by fishermen and now used for storage of trabaques or traditional fishing nets. The cabins are made from driftwood and reeds, which grow in the lake and are cut, dried and tied to make waterproof walls. They were traditionally divided into 3 rooms, a store for fishing equipment, a bedroom and a central living room and kitchen. Each hut lasts 18-25 years and the current ones were renovated in 1993. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fishermen's hut at the Etang de Canet, Canet-en-Roussillon, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. In the distance is the Pic du Canigou. The Canigou stands at 2784m and is the highest of the Eastern peaks of the Pyrenees. There are 10 cabins, originally lived in by fishermen and now used for storage of trabaques or traditional fishing nets. The cabins are made from driftwood and reeds, which grow in the lake and are cut, dried and tied to make waterproof walls. They were traditionally divided into 3 rooms, a store for fishing equipment, a bedroom and a central living room and kitchen. Each hut lasts 18-25 years and the current ones were renovated in 1993. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Etang de Canet, or Canet pond, at Canet-en-Roussillon, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. In the distance is the Pic du Canigou. The Canigou stands at 2784m and is the highest of the Eastern peaks of the Pyrenees. There are 10 traditional fishermen's huts beside the lake originally lived in by fishermen and now used for storage of trabaques or traditional fishing nets. The cabins are made from driftwood and reeds, which grow in the lake and are cut, dried and tied to make waterproof walls. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fishermen's huts and nets drying at the Etang de Canet, Canet-en-Roussillon, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. In the distance is the Pic du Canigou. The Canigou stands at 2784m and is the highest of the Eastern peaks of the Pyrenees. There are 10 cabins, originally lived in by fishermen and now used for storage of trabaques or traditional fishing nets. The cabins are made from driftwood and reeds, which grow in the lake and are cut, dried and tied to make waterproof walls. They were traditionally divided into 3 rooms, a store for fishing equipment, a bedroom and a central living room and kitchen. Each hut lasts 18-25 years and the current ones were renovated in 1993. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fishermen's hut at the Etang de Canet, Canet-en-Roussillon, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. There are 10 cabins, originally lived in by fishermen and now used for storage of trabaques or traditional fishing nets. The cabins are made from driftwood and reeds, which grow in the lake and are cut, dried and tied to make waterproof walls. They were traditionally divided into 3 rooms, a store for fishing equipment, a bedroom and a central living room and kitchen. Each hut lasts 18-25 years and the current ones were renovated in 1993. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Main bedroom, with walls with stucco painted with reeds, rushes and ferns, on the first floor of Casa Vicens, a Catalan Modernist and Art Nouveau style house designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883, on the Carrer de les Carolines in the Gracia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The house was commissioned by Manuel Vicens i Montaner as a summer residence and contains many references to mudejar architecture. The building is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fishermen's hut and nets drying, at the Etang de Canet, Canet-en-Roussillon, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. There are 10 cabins, originally lived in by fishermen and now used for storage of trabaques or traditional fishing nets. The cabins are made from driftwood and reeds, which grow in the lake and are cut, dried and tied to make waterproof walls. They were traditionally divided into 3 rooms, a store for fishing equipment, a bedroom and a central living room and kitchen. Each hut lasts 18-25 years and the current ones were renovated in 1993. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fishermen's hut and nets drying, at the Etang de Canet, Canet-en-Roussillon, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. There are 10 cabins, originally lived in by fishermen and now used for storage of trabaques or traditional fishing nets. The cabins are made from driftwood and reeds, which grow in the lake and are cut, dried and tied to make waterproof walls. They were traditionally divided into 3 rooms, a store for fishing equipment, a bedroom and a central living room and kitchen. Each hut lasts 18-25 years and the current ones were renovated in 1993. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fishermen's hut and nets drying, at the Etang de Canet, Canet-en-Roussillon, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. There are 10 cabins, originally lived in by fishermen and now used for storage of trabaques or traditional fishing nets. The cabins are made from driftwood and reeds, which grow in the lake and are cut, dried and tied to make waterproof walls. They were traditionally divided into 3 rooms, a store for fishing equipment, a bedroom and a central living room and kitchen. Each hut lasts 18-25 years and the current ones were renovated in 1993. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fishermen's hut and nets drying, at the Etang de Canet, Canet-en-Roussillon, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. There are 10 cabins, originally lived in by fishermen and now used for storage of trabaques or traditional fishing nets. The cabins are made from driftwood and reeds, which grow in the lake and are cut, dried and tied to make waterproof walls. They were traditionally divided into 3 rooms, a store for fishing equipment, a bedroom and a central living room and kitchen. Each hut lasts 18-25 years and the current ones were renovated in 1993. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fishermen's hut and nets drying, at the Etang de Canet, Canet-en-Roussillon, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. There are 10 cabins, originally lived in by fishermen and now used for storage of trabaques or traditional fishing nets. The cabins are made from driftwood and reeds, which grow in the lake and are cut, dried and tied to make waterproof walls. They were traditionally divided into 3 rooms, a store for fishing equipment, a bedroom and a central living room and kitchen. Each hut lasts 18-25 years and the current ones were renovated in 1993. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fishermen's hut and nets drying, at the Etang de Canet, Canet-en-Roussillon, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. There are 10 cabins, originally lived in by fishermen and now used for storage of trabaques or traditional fishing nets. The cabins are made from driftwood and reeds, which grow in the lake and are cut, dried and tied to make waterproof walls. They were traditionally divided into 3 rooms, a store for fishing equipment, a bedroom and a central living room and kitchen. Each hut lasts 18-25 years and the current ones were renovated in 1993. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fishermen's hut at the Etang de Canet, Canet-en-Roussillon, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. There are 10 cabins, originally lived in by fishermen and now used for storage of trabaques or traditional fishing nets. The cabins are made from driftwood and reeds, which grow in the lake and are cut, dried and tied to make waterproof walls. They were traditionally divided into 3 rooms, a store for fishing equipment, a bedroom and a central living room and kitchen. Each hut lasts 18-25 years and the current ones were renovated in 1993. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fishermen's huts at the Etang de Canet, Canet-en-Roussillon, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. There are 10 cabins, originally lived in by fishermen and now used for storage of trabaques or traditional fishing nets. The cabins are made from driftwood and reeds, which grow in the lake and are cut, dried and tied to make waterproof walls. They were traditionally divided into 3 rooms, a store for fishing equipment, a bedroom and a central living room and kitchen. Each hut lasts 18-25 years and the current ones were renovated in 1993. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Main bedroom, with stucco painted with reeds and rushes on the walls, and paper-mache vines between the ceiling beams, on the first floor of Casa Vicens, a Catalan Modernist and Art Nouveau style house designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883, on the Carrer de les Carolines in the Gracia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The house was commissioned by Manuel Vicens i Montaner as a summer residence and contains many references to mudejar architecture. The building is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fishermen's hut and nets drying, at the Etang de Canet, Canet-en-Roussillon, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. There are 10 cabins, originally lived in by fishermen and now used for storage of trabaques or traditional fishing nets. The cabins are made from driftwood and reeds, which grow in the lake and are cut, dried and tied to make waterproof walls. They were traditionally divided into 3 rooms, a store for fishing equipment, a bedroom and a central living room and kitchen. Each hut lasts 18-25 years and the current ones were renovated in 1993. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fishermen's hut and nets drying, at the Etang de Canet, Canet-en-Roussillon, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. There are 10 cabins, originally lived in by fishermen and now used for storage of trabaques or traditional fishing nets. The cabins are made from driftwood and reeds, which grow in the lake and are cut, dried and tied to make waterproof walls. They were traditionally divided into 3 rooms, a store for fishing equipment, a bedroom and a central living room and kitchen. Each hut lasts 18-25 years and the current ones were renovated in 1993. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Passion Cross, c. 1600, Italian, cross with instruments of the Passion or Arma Christi, in the Church of St Mary, or Esglesia de Santa Maria de Cadaques, built in the 17th century, in Cadaques, on the Cap de Creus peninsula, Catalonia, Spain. The instruments include the True Cross, Crown of Thorns, pillar, whip, Holy Sponge set on a reed, Holy Lance, reed, INRI, Holy Grail, dice, rooster, ladder, hammer, pincers, vessel of myrrh, moon, lantern and sword. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Jason and the Argonauts in the Garden of Hesperides on the way to Colchis, part of the Quest for the Golden Fleece, polychrome relief in the Oratory at the Hotel Lallemant, a mansion built 1495-1518 in French Renaissance style by the Lallemant merchant family, in Bourges, Centre Val de Loire, France. Fulcanelli studied this work and interpreted it in relation to alchemy, and the quest for the philosopher's stone. Since 1951 the building has housed the Musee des Arts Decoratifs and it was listed as a historic monument in 1840. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Cliffs along the banks of the Ebro river, Tarragona, Spain. In this region the river is near the end of its course, passing through gorges and mountainous scenery before flowing out through the Ebro Delta into the Mediterranean Sea. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Banks of the Ebro river with mountains in the distance, Tarragona, Spain. In this region the river is near the end of its course, passing through gorges and mountainous scenery before flowing out through the Ebro Delta into the Mediterranean Sea. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Rushes growing on the banks of the Ebro river, Tarragona, Spain. In this region the river is near the end of its course, passing through gorges and mountainous scenery before flowing out through the Ebro Delta into the Mediterranean Sea. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Banks of the Ebro river, Tarragona, Spain. In this region the river is near the end of its course, passing through gorges and mountainous scenery before flowing out through the Ebro Delta into the Mediterranean Sea. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The Saone waits, lazy lover of warm sun rays, while boats and reeds whisper in secret on the banks in vaporous waves, oil painting on canvas, 1906, by Claude Honore Hugrel, 1880-1944, in the Academie de Macon, a society of arts, sciences and literature, founded in 1805 by Alphonse de Lamartine, in Macon, Saone-et-Loire, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Chapter House at Fontfroide Abbey or l'Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Fontfroide, at Narbonne, Languedoc-Roussillon, Occitanie, France. Monks would meet in the Chapter House for daily prayers. It features 9 Romanesque arches and a central vault with 4 marble columns with capitals with cistels (reeds from Burgundy). Founded by the Viscount of Narbonne in 1093, Fontfroide linked to the Cistercian order in 1145. Today the abbey is privately owned and its estate produces AOC Corbieres wine. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Chapter House at Fontfroide Abbey or l'Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Fontfroide, at Narbonne, Languedoc-Roussillon, Occitanie, France. Monks would meet in the Chapter House for daily prayers. It features 9 Romanesque arches and a central vault with 4 marble columns with capitals with cistels (reeds from Burgundy). Founded by the Viscount of Narbonne in 1093, Fontfroide linked to the Cistercian order in 1145. Today the abbey is privately owned and its estate produces AOC Corbieres wine. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Chapter House at Fontfroide Abbey or l'Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Fontfroide, at Narbonne, Languedoc-Roussillon, Occitanie, France. Monks would meet in the Chapter House for daily prayers. It features 9 Romanesque arches and a central vault with 4 marble columns with capitals with cistels (reeds from Burgundy). Founded by the Viscount of Narbonne in 1093, Fontfroide linked to the Cistercian order in 1145. Today the abbey is privately owned and its estate produces AOC Corbieres wine. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Chapter House at Fontfroide Abbey or l'Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Fontfroide, at Narbonne, Languedoc-Roussillon, Occitanie, France. Monks would meet in the Chapter House for daily prayers. It features 9 Romanesque arches and a central vault with 4 marble columns with capitals with cistels (reeds from Burgundy). Founded by the Viscount of Narbonne in 1093, Fontfroide linked to the Cistercian order in 1145. Today the abbey is privately owned and its estate produces AOC Corbieres wine. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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