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A summit cross (German: Gipfelkreuz) is a Christian cross on the summit of a mountain or hill that marks the top. Often there will be a summit register ( Gipfelbuch ) at the cross, either in a container or other weatherproof case.
The Serra Cross, sometimes also known as the Cross on the Hill or the Grant Park Cross, is a Christian cross on a hill known as "La Loma de la Cruz" in Ventura, California. The site is in Serra Cross Park, a one-acre parcel within the larger Grant Park that overlooks downtown Ventura, the Santa Barbara Channel, and Anacapa and Santa Cruz Islands.
The Cross of Lorraine is an emblem of Lorraine in eastern France. Between 1871 and 1918 (and again between 1940 and 1944), the north-eastern quarter of Lorraine (the Moselle department) was annexed to Germany, along with Alsace. During that period the Cross served as a rallying point for French ambitions to recover its lost provinces.
The Alexamenos graffito. The Alexamenos graffito (known also as the graffito blasfemo, or blasphemous graffito) [1]: 393 is a piece of Roman graffito scratched in plaster on the wall of a room near the Palatine Hill in Rome, Italy, which has now been removed and is in the Palatine Museum. [2]
The village of Shoreham is located in the Shoreham Valley, an area of undulating and wooded escarpments depicted by the artist Samuel Palmer in the 1820s. [1] In 1920 Samuel Cheesman, a local resident, determined to carve out a cross on the hillside to the west of the village, to commemorate two of his sons and the other men forty-eight men of Shoreham [2] who had been killed during the Great ...
A red Cross of Saint James with flourished arms, surmounted with an escallop, was the emblem of the twelfth-century Galician and Castillian military Order of Santiago, named after Saint James the Greater. Saint Julian Cross: A Cross Crosslet tilted at 45 degrees with the tops pointing to the 'four corners of the world'.
Hill of Crosses (Lithuanian: Kryžių kalnas ⓘ) is a site of pilgrimage about 12 km north of the city of Šiauliai, in northern Lithuania. The precise origin of the practice of leaving crosses on the hill is uncertain, but it is believed that the first crosses were placed on the former Jurgaičiai or Domantai hill fort after the 1831 Uprising ...
Cross at First Baptist Church of Central Florida United States: Orlando, Florida: 28.548272 -81.506951: 60.65 m: 2008: The Cross at the Crossroads United States: Effingham, Illinois: 39.107602 -88.571203: 60.35 m: 2001: Cross of Hope Lebanon: Ijdabra: 34.2491731 35.7010201: 60 m: High-rise building in shape of a double cross with a church in ...