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Northern Europe
Title: Leuven Town Hall, c.1936..
Order No.: A1-3160.
Location: Belgium.
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Title: Statue of 1360 Defender of Rights Hero, Ferdinand Smoldersplein. Leuven City Hall, erected 1936, Belgium. Order No.: A1-3151.
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Germany
Title: Telamones at Sansoussi.
Order No.: A1-2576.
Location: Germany (Potsdam)
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Title: Wrought Iron Balcony Facade, 18th c.
Order No.: A1-2901.
Location: New Castle, Bayreuth.
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Title: Telemones Supporting Wrought Iron Balcony.
Order No.: A1-2893.
Location: New Castle Park, Bayreuth, Germany
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Title: Palace Facade,
Order No.: A1-2464,
Country: Bamberg, Germany
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Title: Church Grille, S. Johann Nepomuk Baroque, 1745-64
Order No.: A1-2032,
Country: Germany
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Title: Wrought Iron Railing in Chapel,
Order No.: A1-2324,
Country: Germany
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Title: Ornate Palace Facade,
Order No.: A1-1011,
Country: Germany
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Title: Telamones supporting Balcony.
Order No.: A1-1747.
Location: S. Linderhof, Germany.
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Title: Entrance Facade of Residence, 18th c.
Order No.: A1-9056.
Location: Dusseldort, Germany
Austria
Vienna
Title: Balcony grating over Andromeda Fountain, c. 1741.
Order No.: A1-1500.
Location: 16 Singerstrasse, Vienna.
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Title: Theseus Temple Fountain & Empress Elizabeth monument.
Order No.: A1-0137.
Location: Volksgarten, Vienna.
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Salzburg
A trip into the past - streets lined with immaculately preserved buildings dating from the medieval and Baroque periods.
A trip into the past - streets lined with immaculately preserved buildings dating from the medieval and Baroque periods.
Title: Burial Plaque
Order No.: A1-1603.
Location: Church Wall, Saltzburg
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Title: Religious 15th C Marble Plaque,
Order No.: A1-1002,
Country: Austria
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Title: Marble Fountain,
Order No.: A1-1551,
Country: Austria
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Title: Salzburg Castle in Evening,
Order No.: A1-1560,
Country: Austria
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Title: Well in courtyard.
Order No.: SPG000134.
Location: Landeszeughaus (Armory), Gratz, Austria (taken in 2006)
Sweden
Stockholm
A city of charming historic alleyways - often called "the Venice of the north."
A city of charming historic alleyways - often called "the Venice of the north."
Title: Spire at Twilight,
Order No.: A1-6006.
Country: Sweden
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Title: Ferry in Stockholm Harbour.
Order No.: A1-6674.
Location: Sweden
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Title: Stone Balcony with Telemones.
Order No.: A1-6318.
Location: Stockholm.
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Title: Stone Balcony supported by Telamones.
Order No.: A1-6049.
Location: Stockholm
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Title: Lion Statue at Swedish Royal Palace.
A1-5961.
Location: Stockholm
Belgium
Bruges
Characterized by cobblestone streets and canals, much of Bruges's preserved old city was built between the 12th and 15th centuries.
Characterized by cobblestone streets and canals, much of Bruges's preserved old city was built between the 12th and 15th centuries.
Title: Garden in the Beguinale.
Order No.: A1-3534.
Location: Bruges, Belgium
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Title: The Beguinale (Begijnhof), c1245.
Order No.: A1-3242.
Location: Belgium (Bruges)
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Title: Commerical Building on Bruges Canal, Belgium. Order No.: A1-3498.
Antwerp
Title: Facade of Rubin's House, Inner Courtyard..
Order No.: A1-9191.
Location: Antwerp, Belgium
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Title: Ceiling of Antwerp Cathedral.
Order No.: A1-9258.
Location: Belgium.
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Riga, Latvia
City of Art Nouveau buildings.
City of Art Nouveau buildings.
Title: Decorative Facade with Blue Brick, Art Nouveau Building.
Order No.: A1-4353.
Location: Riga, Latvia.
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Tile: Elements on Art Nouveau Building.
Order No.: A1-4404.
LocationL Riga, Latvia.
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Title: Facade of the Bourse Building.
Order No.: A1-5124.
Location: Riga, Latvia.
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Title: Female Figure (Art Nouveau Style),
Order No.: A1-4649,
Country: Latvia
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Title: Elaborate Facade, Art Nouveau Style.
Order No.: A1-5001.
Location: Riga, Latvia.
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Title: Elaborate Facade, Art Nouveau Style.
Order No.: A1-5024.
Location: Riga, Latvia.
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Title: High Tower, St. Olaf's Church.
Order No.: A1-5386.
Location: Estonia (Talinn)
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Title: Skyline Rooftops, Estonia.
Order No.: A1-5512.
Location: Tallin, Estonia
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Title: Talinn Skyline.
Order No.: A1-4=5471.
Location: Estonia
France
Title: French Chateau, 16th century.
Order No.: A1-5322.
Location: Mid-France.
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Title: Chateau Turret.
Order No.: A1-5626.
Location: Mid-France
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Title: Design in Stone, 17th C.
Order No.: NS-2009.
Location: Chateau in mid-France.
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Title: Iron Railing and Head Stone.
Order No.: A1-4266.
Location: Bordeaux, FR.
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Title: Church Facade.
Order No.: A1-4123.
Location: France midi.
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Title: Monastery Doors.
Order No.: A1-4052.
Location: France (ruins near Bordeaux)
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Title: Chateau in mid-France.
Order No.: A1-4990.
Location: midi-France.
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Title: Ceiling Design in Plaster, 18th c.
Order No.: NS2009.
Location: Abandoned Residence, mid-France
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Title: Chateau in Bordeau Wine Region.
Order No.: A1-4466.
Location: France, 2009.
Southern Europe
Italy
The "ART" of City Building - Byzantine Tradition
Title: Venice Facade,
Order No.: A1-1007,
Country: Itlay
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Title: Lion figure and gates at L'Arsenale.
Order No.: A1-2005.
Location: Venice
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Title: Pietra de Bando porphyry pillar (Tetrarchs).
Order No.: A1-2005.
Location: Venice
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Late Roman Tetrarchy
The tetrarchy (literally "rule of four") led the Roman Empire from 293 to 313. Established by Emperor Dilcletian to share the responsibilities of government for the Empire and to prepare the next leaders for rule, it could not survive the bellicose jealousies of its second generation, with Constantie the surviving emperor. This statue, carved around the time, depicts the unity of the then peaceful four leaders. As they were also military leaders, they are dressed in lorica segmental arbor, a bronze breastplate from which bronze strips defend in a skirt of two connected layers to the knees. The shoulders and upper arms are covered with three layers of bronze strips (Layering aids in the movement of the arms and lower torso.) An undergarment to which this arbor may be connected can be seen on the arms and slightly below the skirt. Their scabbarded weapons are spats, long swords especially populare among Roman cavalry, although the long hilts may also indicate that they could be grasped by two hands and used for fighting when the soldier had dismounted. Currently, the statue is outside the Basilica of San Marco, brought there from Constantinople by the Venetian Fourth Crusadrs after their sack of that city in 1204. |
Title: Docker's (workers) Houses, L'Arsenale.
Order No.: A1-2005.
Location: Venice.
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Iron balcony, Byzantine style residence.
Order No.: FRoo151.
Location: Riva d. Schiavoni, Venice, Italy
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Venice, with its network of romantic canals and its suggestion of Oriental exotica, had great appeal for Victorian travellers.
Title: Capitaline Hill.
Order No.: A1-1736.
Location: Rome
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Title: Ancient Rome - City of Marble.
Order No.: A1-0726.
Location: Rome
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Augustus boasted that he found Rome a city of brick and left it of marble.
Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was white marble and gilding and heady perfumes; the blare of trumpets and the shrieking of market-women and the eternal, sub-aural hum of more people, speaking more languages that Gaius had ever imagined existed, crammed together on seven hills whose contours had long ago disappeared beneath this encrustation of humanity. Rome was the pulsing heart of the world.
_ Marion Zimmer Bradley. The Forest House, Viking Press, 1994.
Title: Ceiling of the Pantheon.
Order No.: A1-1551.
Location: Rome.
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Title: Ancient Roman Decoration.Pantheon.
Order No.:A1-1599.
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Title: Arch of Septimius Severus and The Roman Forum.
Order No.: A1-2014.
Location: Rome
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Titel: The Roman Forum.
Order No.: A1-1011.
Location: Italy (Rome)
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Title: Fontana de Tritone, Piazza Barberini.
Order No.: A1-1780
Location:Quirinale, Rome.
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Title: Ancient Rome - City of Brick and Marble (busts & sarcophagus).
Order No.A1-1267.
Location: Capitale, Roma
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Title: Victor Emmanuel Monument.
Order No.: A11727.
Location: Rome
Title: Bust of a Roman Emperor and Female Figure.
Order No.: A1-1225.
Location: Rome
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Title: Egyptian Obelisk of Ramases 11.
Order No.: A1-1446.
Location: Porta Del Popolo, Rome.
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Title: Roman Era Water Fountain.
Order No.: A1-0932.
Location: Rome.
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Title: Base of Constantine's Arch.
Order No.: A1-1058.
Location: Rome
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Title: Bernini's Elephant Supporting an Egyptian Obelisk, Rome.
Order No.: A1-1581.
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You, whoever you are, who see that the figures of wise Egypt sculptured on the obelisk are being carried by an elephant, the strongest of beasts, understand that it is proof of a strong mind to sustain solid wisdom. |
Title: Statues at Villa Adriana
Order No.: A1-7078.
Location: Tivoli, Italy
Tuscany
Title: Piazza in Pienza.
Order No.: A1-4394.
Location: Tuscany.
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Title: View of Villa Barbaro.
Order No.: A1-2005.
Location: Asolo, near Venice.
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Venice
Title: Canal Residence.
Order No.: A1-1006.
Country: Italy (Venice)
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Title: Piazza dei Cavalieri.
Order No.: A1-3510.
Location: Pisa, Italy
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Florence
The Renaissance capital with its timeless, heart-lifting beauty.
The Renaissance capital with its timeless, heart-lifting beauty.
Title: The Duomo's Gothic Exterior.
Order No.: A-2683.
Location: Florence
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Title: Mitchelangelo's Statue (5.17 metre) of the Biblical hero David, circa. 1501-04.
Order No.: A1-1989.
Location: Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy
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Excellence!
"I’ve studied why that picture of the Duomo is so good, how even that exquisite lily gets well gilded. I see that you’ve caught the shadow at a critical point, the moment it darkens the plane on the left, with that time told as well by the darkening edge above, on the circle of the window and, curving then toward the sky, across the slope of the dome. So as well as about great architecture, the picture is about time and about physics; it moves and reveals. A fine snap indeed! ... among many".
A keen Observer
Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446), Italian Resaissance architect.
Go to: www.ancient.eu/Filippo_Brunelleschi/
Go to: www.ancient.eu/Filippo_Brunelleschi/
Title: Decorative Marble Door Frame, 15th century.
Order No.: A1-2800.
Location: Renaissance Church, Florence.
Pompeii
Title: Wall Decoration, 79 BC.
Order No.: A1-5964.
Location: Pompeii.
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Title: Decorative Ceiling Design.
Order No.: A1-5747.
Location: Pompeii.
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Title: Wall Decoration, 79 BC.
Order No.: A1-6224.
Location: Pompeii
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Title: Painted Wall Decorations.
Order No.: A1-6072.
Location: Pompeii.
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Title: Wall Decoration, 79 BC.
Order No.: A1-6081.
Location: Pompeii
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Title: Wall Decoration, 79 BC.
Order No.: A1-6287.
Location: Pompeii.
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Title: Inventory of Artefacts.
Order No.: A1-5937.
Location: Pompeii.
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Title: View of Mount Vesuvius.
Order No.: A1-5898.
Location: Pompeii.
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Herculaneum
Title: Roman Warrior.
Order No.: A1-6442.
Location: Herculaneum.
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Title: Man with Double Axe.
Order No.: A1-6436
Location: Herculaneum
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Title: Roman Life at Herculaneum.
Order No.: A1-6445.
Location: Italy
Lucca & Tuscany
Title: Piazza dei Cavalieri.
Order No.: A1-3510.
Location: Italy (Pisa)
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Title: Morning in Anghiari.
Order No.: A1-2286.
Location: Italy
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Title: Gothic style Door, 14th century.
Order No.: A1-3867.
Location: Italy (Lucca)
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Title: Female Head, Baroque style, 16th century.
Order No.: A1-3924.
Location: Italy (Tuscany, a Lucca villa)
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Amalfi Coast
Title: Female Roman Bronze Figure, Villa San Michele.
Order No.: A1-6968.
Location: Anacapri, Italy
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Title: Positano in Early Morning.
Order No.: A1-6574.
Location: Italy (Amalfi Coast)
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Portugal and Spain
Portugal's history of intricate tilework—from its ceilings to floors, homes and hallways.
Title: Entrance to Royal Chapel with tiled roof.
Order No.: A1-2219.
Location: Pena National Palace, Sintra, Portugal
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Title: Triton, Allegorical Gateway of Creation.
Order No.: A1-2237.
Location: Pena National Palace, Sintra, Portugal.
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Title: Approach to Pena Palace. Order No.: A1-2327. Location: Sintra, 2015.
Title: Royal Cloister with stone Manueline tracery, 14th century.
Order No.: A1-29§0.
Location: Batalha Monastery, Portugal.
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Title: Stone Carving Design.
Order No.: A1-3389.
Location: Bussco Palace, Portugal
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Title: Palace Marble Facade, 19th Century, Portugal. Order No.: A1-3670.
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Title: Facade of Residence in Obidos.
Order No.: A1-2726.
Location: Obidos, Portugal, 2015.
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Title: Wall Tiles, 18th century.
Order No.: A1-3759.
Location: Elvas Cathedral, Portugal.
Oporto - October, 2023
Title: Evening view of Oporto Harbour from Gaia. October 2023.
Order No.: A1-6213.
Location: Oporto, Portugal
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Title: Porto Harbour
Order No.: A1-6202.
Location: Portugal 2023
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Title: Porto Harbour, looking east from Gaia to the bridges
Order No. A1-6204
Location: Oporto
Title: Porto Harbour by the iron Bridge.
Order No.: A1-6166.
Location: Porto, Portugal
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Title: View of Porto from Vila Nova de Gaia.
Order No.: A1-6179
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Title: Entrance Courtyard.
Order No.: A1-1374.
Location: Museu de Historia Natural. Porto.
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Title: Decorative Ceiling of Main Hall.
Order No.: A1-1385.
Location: Museu de Historia Natural, Porto.
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Spain
Title: Exquisite Painted Palace Ceiling, 18th Century, Seville, Spain. Order No.: A1-4920.
Title: Wrought iron Coat-of-Arms of Ferdinand & Isabella.
Order No.: A1-5351.
Location: C.R. Granada, Spain
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Title: Interior Wall Decoration.
Order No.: A1-5383.
Location: Convent of St. Catalina de Zafra, Granada.
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Title: Decorative Stone work.
Order No.: A1-5433.
Location: Jean Cathedral, Spain.
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Title: Metal Pulpit.
Order No.: A1-5474.
Location: Baeza Cathedral, Spain.
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Title: Old tiles.
Order No.: A1-5497.
Location: Hotel Palacio de Rambla, 16th C., Plaza Manques, Ubeda, Spain.
Title: Iron Balconies.
Order No.: A1-6025.
Location: Old Cordoba, Spain
Travel Photos
David Clendenning & Gay Haskins near Anghiari, Italy, 2014-10.
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Gay Haskins and David Clendenning at the Abama Resort, Tenerife, Canary Islands, November 2017.
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David Clendenning viewing Toledo from Pozuela, December 2017.