Category: Ita’s World

Dedicated to Saint Michel or Saint Michael, the Christian Archangel of Light, these hallowed and sacred sites remain important places for visitors and pilgrims to discover. From ancient Benedictine monastic and medieval settlements their history and structures have survived the ravages of ages and stages of time. Situated in Normandy in France and Cornwall in England, the Mounts majestically rising from the sea are steeped in folklore and legend mentioned by poets and others, including John Milton (1608-74), in…

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Cornwall is a peninsula in the far south western corner of the British Isles surrounded on three sides by the Atlantic Ocean. It covers no more than 1,365 square miles (3,535 sq km) and at no time during the nineteenth century boasted a population greater than 375,000. Yet, for a region with such a small population, the Cornish exerted a disproportionate influence upon the global metalliferous mining industry and related technologies that in earlier centuries was to bind Cornwall…

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