562 Comments for Valmea Convent

I don't think that was intentional. Just part of the key design.

The thirty-nine steps, eh?

Beautiful

I'd love to have those floor tiles

This shot is just heartbreakingly beautiful. Wonderful gallery Motts, thank you.

I look at this gallery and I have a soundtrack of Gregorian Chants running through my head =)

It's like something out of a fairy tale!

For some reason this image is so sad. Like a euphamism for the state of faith in the world today.

Motts, perhaps to help clear you up on the fireplaces and I say perhaps because I am not sure if it is the same in Belgium as it is in Paris or even if it is the case at all. IIRC, older buildings have there fireplaces sealed because there are laws governing buildings having open flames in the city. I am basing this on the fact that when I was living in Paris I decided to do some grilling on my balcony and the cacophony of people telling me from the neighbors telling me to stop echoed throughout the courtyard long after I had went to bed. Found out later that this was done because (in part at least) illegal immigrants have done stuff like using hotplates and wound up being stuck in an inferno because the building is perhaps close to if not over 100 years old.

Isn't this called something like a flying buttress?

It is simply amazing the shots you take Mr. Motts...simply amazing.

I felt the same way as JAVA does. So odd....it's like someone is just getting some freah air in the house or something.

Love the lonely chair, and the beams and roof are so cool. Great shot!

They had to have arched windows... Its the only way to tell gravity what to do.

there is a cross in the key...

Another lonely chair
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