Cruise Photos - Part 1

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June 28th 2011

Published: June 28th 2011

This is just a page so we can upload all the photo's that we haven't added. Hope you enjoy them. There are quite a few so I'll do a Part 1 & Part 2. Don't forget there will be a couple of actual pages on each "Part". xx... Read Full Entry

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The Baptistry

There are 5 buildings around the area, The Baptistry, The Cenotaph, The Mausoleum, Basilica and the Bell Tower.

The Baptistry and Basilica

The Bell Tower

You can climb up the top again now but we didn't have enough time on the tour.

The Tower

The Basilica

The Dome on the Baptistry

The Baptistry

The Basilica

This is one of the doors of the basilica. They are very ornate and one of the first examples of 3D imagery.

The Basilica doors

The Basilica door

Our tour guide for Pisa

Walls

The stone blocks on many of the buildings in Europe were recycled from older buildings. In this photo and the next one you can see a face, these were taken from older buildings and used in these ones.

Walls

The Tower

Walls

Another example of the recycling

Walls

Some of the recycled blocks were put in upside down. Our guide thought this was because in the period of time when these were built people couldn't read.

The Tower

Mark holding up the tower

Statue

This was a statue in Vigo. We thought it was quite funny because it looked like it had fallen over and landed on it's face. It's supposed to be symbolic of a swimmer.