L'abbaye de Tongerlo est une abbaye prémontrée située sur la commune de Westerlo, dans la province d'Anvers, en Belgique. Elle fut fondée en 1128 en l'honneur de la bienheureuse Vierge Marie par des Prémontrés venus de l’abbaye Saint-Michel d'Anvers. La fondation était mixte, une abbaye de chanoinesses norbertines étant fondée en parallèle, laquelle disparaîtra au XIIIe siècle.
L’abbaye s'est développé au travers de ses missions pastorales, même par temps de crise. Aux XVe et XVIe siècles, elle atteignait un âge d’or, tant du point de vue de l'étendue de son domaine que de son engagement social, politique et culturel, ouvrant en particulier un collège norbertin auprès de l’université de Louvain en 1571.
Aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, l'abbaye était troublée par la présence des calvinistes dans la région. Lors de la révolution brabançonne de 1789-1790, elle soutenait financièrement le mouvement révolutionnaire, le retour des Autrichiens à Bruxelles lui étant préjudiciable. La fin de l’abbaye arriva en 1796 du fait des lois de sécularisation de la République Française.
L'abbaye reprit vie en 1840, après l’indépendance belge. Une nouvelle église néo-gothique flanquée d’un cloître, fut mise en chantier. La renaissance se manifesta d'autre part par la fondation d'un prieuré à Manchester, ainsi que par une mission au Congo belge. En 2017, une communauté de chanoines prémontrés occupe toujours l'abbaye.
Le château de Culzean est un château près de Maybole sur la côte de l'Ayrshire en Écosse.
Robert Adam, le célèbre architecte anglais, participa à la reconstruction d'une portion du Château dans les années 1770.
Ancienne demeure du marquis d'Ailsa , le chef du Clan Kennedy , le Château est désormais la propriété du National Trust for Scotland.
En guise de remerciement pour le rôle de soutien des États-Unis d'Amérique durant la 2e Guerre mondiale à l'Écosse, on accorda l'usage d'une partie du Château au Général Eisenhower, lequel y séjourna à quelques occasions.
Depuis 1987, une illustration du château se trouve sur le billet de cinq livres émis par la Royal Bank of Scotland.
Coventry Transport Museum is a transport museum, located in Coventry city centre, England.
It houses the largest collection of British-made road transport held in public ownership. It is located in Coventry because the city was previously the centre of the British car industry and the birthplace of the bicycle. There are more than 240 cars and commercial vehicles, 100 motorcycles, 200 bicycles.
As of June 30, 2019, Coventry Transport Museum is no longer free admission. Prices for adults will be £14, concessions will be £10.50 and juniors will be £7 with special prices for families. Admission to the museum is still free for Coventry residentsThe ever-changing temporary exhibitions feature motor cars, commercial vehicles, cycles and motorcycles from the museums own collection and beyond. The museum offers activities ranging from engineering challenges to scientific experiments.
The museum is also home to a 60 year old Vintage Sleigh Ride, that has been popular in the city for generations of local residents.
It has a full-time archive department, which deals with an array of historical items, and offers a public enquiry service answering questions and finding items and information. Visitors need to contact the museum prior to visiting should they wish to access the archives, or speak to a curator.
The Countess of Chester is the main NHS hospital for Chester and its surrounding area. It currently has 625 beds, general medical departments and a 24-hour accident and emergency unit. It is managed by the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, which was one of the first Foundation Trusts, formed in 2004.
Coughton Court is an English Tudor country house, situated on the main road between Studley and Alcester in Warwickshire. It is a Grade I listed building.
The house has a long crenelated façade directly facing the main road, at the centre of which is the Tudor Gatehouse, dating from 1530; this has hexagonal turrets and oriel windows in the English Renaissance style. The gatehouse is the oldest part of the house and is flanked by later wings, in the Strawberry Hill Gothic style, popularised by Horace Walpole.
The Conway Public Library serves the town of Conway, New Hampshire. It is located at 15 Greenwood Avenue in Conway village, in an architecturally distinguished Classical Revival building built in 1900 as a gift to the town from Sarah and Lydia Jenks. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
À l'origine, en 1362, le couvent et l'église San Giovanni Battista della Calza, aussi appelé complexe della Calza, était également l'hôpital San Giovanni Battista, situé sur la place della Calza, en face de la Porta Romana en Oltrarno, à Florence.
Le Sacro Convento, de son nom complet Sacro Convento di San Francesco in Assisi, est un couvent franciscain situé à Assise, en Ombrie. Abritant la basilique Saint-François d'Assise et le tombeau du fondateur François d'Assise, c'est un lieu de pèlerinage autant que de rayonnement spirituel.
Le monastère des Déchaussées royales est un monument de Madrid.
Ce couvent fut fondé en 1559 par Jeanne d'Autriche, fille de Charles Quint et d'Isabelle de Portugal.
C'est d'ailleurs dans l'ancien palais de ces derniers que les franciscaines déchaussées ont pris leurs quartiers. Le majestueux édifice de facture classique abrite un musée renfermant des œuvres d'art majeures.
L'archiduchesse Marguerite d'Autriche, devenue Sœur Marguerite de la Croix, y meurt en 1633. Elle est inhumée dans le monastère, comme sa mère l'impératrice Marie de Habsbourg — fille de l'empereur Charles Quint et femme de l'empereur Maximilien II.
Le monastère abrite une nécropole où reposent, notamment, des membres de la famille des rois d'Espagne.
Parmi les très nombreuses sépultures de Habsbourg ou de Bourbons :
le duc d'Anjou et de Cadix, Alphonse de Bourbon , aîné des Capétiens, prétendant légitimiste au trône de France ;
le duc de Bourbon, François de Bourbon , fils aîné du précédent ;
le duc d'Aquitaine, Gonzalve de Bourbon , oncle du précédent.
Xàtiva, en valencien et officiellement,, , est une commune d'Espagne de la province de Valence dans la Communauté valencienne. Elle est le chef-lieu de la comarque de la Costera. Elle est située dans la zone à prédominance linguistique valencienne.
L'illustre famille des Borgia et le célèbre peintre José de Ribera sont originaires de cette ville.
García Ordóñez , called de Nájera or de Cabra and in the epic literature Crispus or el Crespo de Grañón, was a Castilian magnate who ruled the Rioja, with his seat at Nájera, from 1080 until his death. He is famous in literature as the rival of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, the Cid, whose high position at court he took over after the Cid's exile in 1080. He was one of the most important military leaders and territorial governors under Alfonso VI, and was entrusted with military tutorship of the king's heir, Sancho Alfónsez, with whom he died on the field of battle at Uclés.
Isola Bella est une des Îles Borromées, sur le lac Majeur. Située dans le golfe Borromée, à 400 m environ au large de la ville de Stresa, elle mesure 320 m de longueur sur 180 m de largeur. Isola Bella, dont le nom vient de celui de la comtesse Isabelle Borromée , est entièrement occupée par le palais Borromeo et ses jardins.
La basilique Saint-Georges, également connu sous le nom d'église collégiale Saint-Georges est une basilique catholique du diocèse de Gozo située à Rabat, sur l'île de Gozo .
Jacques Gelman was a producer of Mexican films and a collector of Mexican Art.
Gelman was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia from a rich noble Jewish family who emigrated in Germany during the October revolution . During the 1920s, he worked as a still photographer in Europe at a motion picture studios, and became a distributor of French films. He arrived in Mexico just before the outbreak of World War II, and as a result of the conflict, found himself stranded there. In 1943, he became the third partner of Posa Films, along with Mario Moreno and Santiago Reachi Fayad. The company's prime asset was Moreno's comedic talent, and the three producers crafted and marketed the image of Cantinflas.
It was Gelman who proposed the recreation of European classics as a way to appeal to audiences outside Latin America. Los tres mosqueteros and Romeo y Julieta were produced during this period, and Los tres mosqueteros was selected to be screened at the first Cannes Film Festival in 1946. The endorsement of Charlie Chaplin secured the feature's billing, but in the eyes of French critics, it failed to live up to Chaplin's proclamation that Moreno was the leading comic of the era. The French people, however, were not as hostile to "Cantinflas", seeing in him a Mexican version of their Fernandel. In 1958, a rift between Gelman and Reachi concerning some wrongdoing in contracts with Columbia Pictures by Gelman and Moreno, allowed Gelman to produce the film without Reachi as a Producer. dubbing into French over the objections of Reachi who advise him about the possible poor reception of Moreno's dialect to the Europeans. The imitative efforts at universalize failed to appeal to non-Spanish-speaking audiences.
Gelman stood beside Moreno throughout his career, accompanying him during the filming of Around the World in 80 Days and to the Golden Globe Awards ceremony. When the three partners disbanded in 1960 over the creation of Pepe, As Reachi formed a new company named Posa Films Internacional, S.A. 1959, all assets of Posa Films, S.A and its obligations, was transferred to the new company 1961. After Reachi retired as Producer, President and partner of Posa Films INTERNACIONAL S.A. Gelman had the opportunity to change his status as a Manager to a new Producer of Cantinflas movies..
Jacques Gelman died on July 22, 1986 in Houston, Texas where he was undergoing a heart operation.
He and his wife Natasha were avid collectors of Mexican art, and became its patrons when they commissioned Diego Rivera to paint her portrait. Mexican painter Gunther Gerzso, a friend of Gelman, painted his portrait and gave it to him as a gift. Upon Mrs. Gelman's death in 1998, their collection was donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and has since been exhibited at the Seattle Art Museum and New York City's Museo del Pueblo. A great part of their collection is also on exhibit in the newly founded museum "Muros" in Cuernavaca, following Natasha Gelman's wish.
Friedrich Lippmann was a German art historian and director of the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin State Museums, noted for his work on Dürer, Holbein and Italian 15th-century woodcuts. Max Jakob Friedländer, who was later to become the noted scholar Early Netherlandish painting and the Northern Renaissance, worked under Lippmann in 1891 as a volunteer assisting with Lippmann's graphics collection.
