Thursday Doors – March 28, 2019

Thursday Doors is a weekly feature allowing door lovers to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos from around the world. Feel free to join in on the fun by creating your own Thursday Doors post each week and then sharing your link in the comments below, anytime between Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American eastern time). 

Cattedrale di San Cerbone – Massa Marittima, Tuscany

If it hadn’t been for a number of Manja’s posts from last year like this one and this other one here, I probably would have never heard of the town of Massa Marittima in southern Tuscany.

After seeing her posts however, I knew that if I ever made it to that part of the world, this ancient hilltop town was without question going to be on my must-see list.

One of the main attractions of the town is the Cathedral of Saint Cerbonius with its wraparound staircase and porous volcanic tuff stone construction, it is impossible to enter the town square and not be drawn towards this impressive 11th century structure.

A shot with people! Including our hosts and my sweetie, who looks like she’s saluting.

I took a look around the bell tower side of the building where I found a few nice old doors hiding in some of the nooks and crannies.

The main door is open so what do you say we take a peek inside?

One of the beautiful things about this place is how all the windows and openings are oriented to allow for dramatic shadows. Beams of sunlight seem to deliberately shine onto specific spots bringing a feeling of glowing warmth to what would otherwise be a cold stone building.

Now let’s go back out and check out the other side of the exterior.

The animal figures at the top of the columns are said to ward off bad luck.

I should have taken a few more steps and gotten a better shot of this door, D’OH!

Here’s a ghost door that looks like it was filled in centuries ago.

And here are a few bonus doors from nearby buildings (now museums) including one made from the same volcanic stone.

This is just the tip of the Massa Marittima iceberg. Stay tuned because I’ll have at least a few more door posts from this amazing town in the weeks to come.

As always I thank you for stopping by 🙂

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