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Spynie Palace, also known as Spynie Castle, was the fortified seat of the Bishops of Moray for about 500 years in Spynie, ... For most of its occupied history, ...
Spynie Palace and the remnants of the drained Loch Spynie, seen from the kirkyard of Holy Trinity Church, Spynie. Spynie was a seaport, burgh and ancient parish in Moray, Scotland, that survives as a small hamlet and civil parish. [1]
The seat of the parish of Spynie was moved to New Spynie in 1745, with the new church being built in 1736 partly with stones taken from the old one. [1] The last remaining part of the old church was a gothic gable which fell in 1850. [1]
Crowd outside a butcher shop during the siege of Paris (1871) In the last days of the Paris Commune, the Tuileries Palace was set afire by the Communards and completely destroyed. The rule of Napoleon III came to an abrupt end when he was defeated and captured at the Battle of Sedan of 1–2 September 1870 at the end of the Franco-Prussian War .
Kinneddar is located on a raised ridge of land originally on the edge of Loch Spynie, [4] with the loch's marshes surrounding the site on three sides. [5] Loch Spynie was a sea loch during the medieval period, stretching 11 km from Kinneddar west to Burghead and providing sheltered anchorage for seagoing vessels. [6]
The current village, originally called New Duffus, is a grid plan village established as a planned settlement in 1811. [3] This replaced an earlier medieval settlement which lay 0.4 kilometres (0.25 mi) to the east, of which only the ruined Old Parish Church remains.
Unlike the Southern France, Paris has very few examples of Romanesque architecture; most churches and other buildings in that style were rebuilt in the Gothic style.The most remarkable example of Romanesque architecture in Paris is the church of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, built between 990 and 1160 during the reign of Robert the Pious.
The Île de la Cité is the central and historic district of Paris, with a secular and religious history that dates to the 10th century. Its western end has housed a palace since Roman times, and its eastern end has been primarily dedicated to various religious structures, including the famous Notre-Dame cathedral.