Quite Essentially British. With delicate bone china, the finest leaf teas, and friendly staff in Victorian costumes serving home-made cakes, pastries and sandwiches. Housed in a former blacksmith's cottage dating from 1502, the Bridge Tea Rooms in Bradford-on-Avon in the English county of Wiltshire, positively oozes atmosphere, and the classical music playing gently in the background sets a tranquil tone.
The Iversky Monastery & Convent, know as the Woman's Monastery is found in the southern capital city of Rostov On Don.
Order of the Russian Orthodox Church, it belongs to the Diocese of Rostov and Novocherkassk.
Building began in 1903 and was finished in 1908.
Photograph taken in August 2017 during a visit to the beautiful city of Rostov-on-Don.
Looking down Sobornyy Pereulok towards the Cathedral Sabor.
Rostov-on-Don is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of southern Russia. Cossack county. The city lies in the southeastern part of the East European Plai on the Don River.
Arundel Castle is a restored and remodelled medieval castle in Arundel, West Sussex, England. It was established by Roger de Montgomery on Christmas Day 1067.
Roger became the first to hold the earldom of Arundel by the graces of William the Conqueror.
Photographed from Mill road in the market town of Arundel.
The iconic Admiralty Arch, a landmark building in London photographed in all its glory.
The building provides road and pedestrian access between The Mall, which extends to the southwest, and Trafalgar Square to the northeast.
Photographed from the roadside during the "Beast from the East" storm in 2018.
The Dog and Partridge pub in Yateley, Hampshire in England.
The Temple of the Iveron (Iberian) Icon of the Mother of God church in Roston-on-Don in the Russian Federation.
Located in the grounds of the Iversky Woman's Monestery.
The Iversky Monastery & Convent, know as the Woman's Monastery is found in the southern capital city of Rostov On Don.
Order of the Russian Orthodox Church, it belongs to the Diocese of Rostov and Novocherkassk.
Building began in 1903 and was finished in 1908.
Photograph taken in August 2017 during a visit to the beautiful city of Rostov-on-Don.
Iversky Womans Monastery in Rosrtov-on-Don in the Russian Federation
The Iversky Convent is a Russian Orthodox convent in the city of Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russia. It belongs to the Diocese of Rostov and Novocherkassk
The Iversky Convent was established at the beginning of the 20th century. It was built on the fund of Rostov-on-Don merchant Samuil Fyodorov, who, according to a city legend, had a sixteen-year-old daughter who wished to become a nun. The convent was initially situated about 15 km from the city.
Between black Périgord and Quercy, not far from the castles of Bonaguil, Biron and Gavaudun, the picturesque valley of the Lède de Gavaudun offers its green setting to the hamlet of Saint-Avit, a remarkable architectural ensemble comprising a Romanesque church as well as the small cemetery stand next to the supposed birthplace of Bernard Palissy. Here can be found a particularly rich collection of works by the great ceramists of our time.
Nearby, the town of Lacapelle-Biron experienced dark times during the passage of the 2nd SS Das Reich armored division in 1944. In memory of this recent period in French history, the Departmental Monument of Deportation was erected on the village square
An old abandoned and derelict farm house photographed as a storm approaches near the commune of Tombebœuf in the Lot et Garonne, South Western France🇫🇷.
Chateau de Bonaguil is a castle in the French commune of Saint-Front-sur-Lemance but is actually owned by the neighbouring commune of Funel in the Lot-et-Garonne department.
It has been classified as a Monument historique since 1962.
The Chateau de Bonaguil was the last of the fortified castles.
The old core of the Lafaurie manor includes a 16th century quadrangular tower against which a main building was attached in the 17th century, perhaps built for Mathieu Paul Bousquet de Lafaurie, lawyer, who died before 1684. At the end of the 18th century , the domain passes to a branch of Ferrand, lords of Mauvezin, following the marriage of Marie Ragot de Lespinasse, daughter of Marie de Bousquet, with the knight Jean de Ferrand. The manor, which remained in their possession after the Revolution, was remodeled for Jacques and Jean de Ferrand during the second half of the 19th century a dwelling and then a chapel were first built in 1854-1855; part of the old main building, on the courtyard, was rebuilt in 1860
