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Hermitage Madonna della Corona
Catholics hermits have been praying in this very spot for over a thousands years, a place of silence and meditation between the sky and the earth, accessible only by a steep and dangerous pathway carved into the mountain.
Hermitage Madonna della Corona is a sacred place hidden in the Italian alps, and truly inspires admiration and contemplation just visiting it. .
The hermitage of Santa Margarida de Sacot was built in the 11th or 12th century inside the crater of a dormant volcano. The hermitage was destroyed during the 1428 Catalonia earthquake, and rebuilt following the original Romanesque style in 1865.
Giant malachite vase The Hermitage in St Petersburg (ex Leningrad) is one of the great museums of the world, stuffed with the treasures of both Tsars and Soviets. Housed in what was originally the Winter Palace, the collection retains some of the original furnishings from the imperial home. Amongst these treasures are a series of huge carved stone vases, many of them sculpted over many years of work from Russian malachite mined near Yekaterinburg in the Urals and mounted in gilt bronze. Loz Image credit: Dezidor http://www.alexanderpalace.org/petersburg1900/21.html
