Doorways Around the World

Residence in a medieval seaside town. Photographer: Melinda Brovelli of Melinda Trips 2007. This doorway is located in Monemvasia, Greece.

Photographer: Steinar Daniellson. Visit Steinar at http://www.ranietsd.piczo.com
This doorway is in Mosjøen, Norway.

A doorway on the stage of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. Photographer: Gaynor Sparrow. This doorway is in the U.K.

Photographer: Gaynor Sparrow. This doorway is in the province of Apuglia, Italy.

Stall Street Door, c. 1792.  Photographer: James Russiello of Bath Daily Photo.

In Rome’s Colonna district on the Via Due Macelli, here is the doorway of Borromini’s masterpiece Palazzo di Propoaganda Fide and Oratory (1650-64). This remains an extraterritorial property of the Holy See and the building still houses the SPF (Society for the Propagation of the Faith: think Francis Cardinal Spellman in 1953 on the death of Stalin, etc. with those letter behind him.). It’s an incredibly tight space and impossible to get a whole facade shot without angling from the side. This door and the curves in the facade are a response to that tight relationship with the street.

Photographer: James Russiello of Bath Daily Photo.

Number 18 Melbury Road in West Kensington. This was the home of the pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt, and here the young Virginia Woolf had lessons in deportment from Mrs. Holman Hunt. In 1923, MI6 (the British secret intelligence service made famous around the world by James Bond) moved here for a year from central London. The house has been converted to flats.

Photographer: Passante of Passante’s World. This doorway is in London, UK.

Photographer: Sebastian Nebel of Trier Daily Photo.  This portal is in Trier, Germany.

Photographer: Andreea of Brussels Daily Photo. This doorway is in Tallinn, Estonia.

Windsor Castle Upper Ward. This door is near the State Apartments.

Photographer: James Russiello of Bath Daily Photo. This entry way is in Windsor, UK.