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This is were the famous adventures of Don Quixote started, the attack on the windmills that he believes to be ferocious giants.
One curiosity is that each windmill has it’s one name, and the same happens with it’s windows.
Shot in Granada, these wonderful and architectonic rich arches are part of the Carmen de los Mártires Palace, just next to Alhambra.
La Torre is a castle near Buonconvento and dates back to the thirteenth century and once belonged to powerful families of Siena.
The castle was completely restored in the second half of the 800, taking on its current appearance: it is made up of two buildings that overlook a large courtyard surrounded on two sides by walls surrounded by a moat.
Now they are doing new restorations who knows, maybe it will turn into a luxury resort.
Alhambra is really an amazing place where one can appreciate ant once the beauty of at least three different civilisations and Era's. It's just like an cultural overload...
I posted two shots of this Eastern Phoebe this evening. I got this portrait shot when she flew in close, and also a shot of her on one of her favorite perches in her habitat.
Eastern Phoebes almost always nest on human built structures. In this case the nest is under a boardwalk that traverses a popular wetland area in St. Albert.
She has given many of us great photo ops.
John E. Poole Wetland. St. Albert, Alberta.
Member of the Flickr Bird Brigade
Activists for birds and wildlife
Die Hamburger Speicherstadt ist der weltgrößte historische Lagerhauskomplex, gelegen im Hamburger Hafen. Sie umfasst das Gebiet zwischen Baumwall und Oberhafen. Seit 1991 steht sie unter Denkmalschutz. Seit dem 5. Juli 2015 ist die Speicherstadt auf der Liste des UNESCO-Welterbes eingetragen. Die Speicherstadt wurde zwischen 1883 und 1927 erbaut.
Hamburger Speicherstadt is the world's largest historic warehouse complex, located in the Port of Hamburg. It covers the area between Baumwall and Oberhafen. Since 1991 she is a listed building. Since 5 July 2015, the Speicherstadt has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The Speicherstadt was built between 1883 and 1927.
Ursprünglich wurde das Wasserschloss als Unterkunft und Werkstatt für die Hafenarbeiter genutzt, welche die Wartung und Reparatur der hydraulischen Speicherwinden ausführten. Sie wurden Windenwärter bzw. Windenwächter genannt und hatten – neben anderem technischen Personal – das Privileg, in der Speicherstadt wohnen zu dürfen.
Originally the moated castle was used as a shelter and workshop for the dockers, who carried out the maintenance and repair of the hydraulic storage winches. They were called Windenwächter or Windenwächter and had - in addition to other technical personnel - the privilege to live in the Speicherstadt.
I have been driving past this barn on an occasional basis literally for decades, but the light was never "right", at least until one day last Spring. The years haven't been that kind to this barn, but (like so many of us) it's still standing!
Captured on the same morning as an earlier photo posted here, this is an HDR rendition of the scene. Lots of indirect, cloud filtered light is mixed with the rays of the low-lying sun.
You can reach this refuge ( 3006 m ) from Obergurgl in the Ötztaler Alps on a hiking trail in 4 hours. This house was built by the section Hamburg of German Alpine Association in the year 1881. The house serves the mountaineers as accomodation for further alpine tours. That ´s exactly what my friend and i did. We made an ice climbing on a high three thousand meter mountain.
Seen along the reknowned Kankamangus highway in New Hampshire, this barn is part of a 19th century homestead that most definitely did not enjoy good cellular coverage!
D1935 'Roger Hosking MA 1925-2013' emits a trace of exhaust as it powers over the Ouse Valley Viaduct with 1Z84, the 1653 Eastbourne to Chesterfield 'Statesman' excursion.
Also know as Balcombe Viaduct and opened in 1841, this is the highlight of the route built by the London and Brighton Railway.
This ornate, brick-built structure comprises of over 11 million bricks, mostly imported from the Netherlands and shipped up the river Ouse from Newhaven and Lewes to the construction site. The stone balustrades and pavillions were imported from Caen in Northern France.
After a month of poor weather, this was a rare occasion to enjoy the August sunshine, capture a locomotive-hauled train on the famous viaduct and meet up with a few likeminded photographers.
Taken with the aid of a pole.
Eigentumswohnungen in der HafenCity. Leider sündhaft teuer. Hinter der rechten Häuserreihe verläuft die Elbe und man erhält eine fantastischen Blick auf den Hafen. Bei Hochwasser steht der Wasserpegel bis an die Kaimaueroberkante.
Condominiums in HafenCity. Unfortunately sinfully expensive. Behind the right row of houses runs the Elbe and you get a fantastic view of the harbor. At high water, the water level is up to the quay wall top.
Shot from St. Petri Church. The oldest church in the City. 200 steps narrow spiral staircase. I still have sore muscles :-)
Eine Aufnahme von der St. Petri-Kirche. Die älteste Kirche der Stadt. 200 Stufen schmale Wendeltreppe. Ich habe immer noch Muskelkater :-)
OK, so maybe I'm not standing on it, but this bench does see lots of action. Located out on a jetty that juts into the Atlantic, this bench takes the brunt of hurricane force winds bearing down on the coast. It looks sturdy and I guess it is!
iQuarter, originally known as the Hancock & Lant Tower, is a 52-metre apartment block in Sheffield, England, completed in 2008. It's named after the Hancock and Lant furniture company formerly occupying the site. The lobby of the building houses a Grade II listed brick built structure known as a crucible stack; dating from the late 19th century, it's an example of the once numerous small steel works in the area whose output complemented that of the large scale bulk producers.
Crossing the Susquehanna in New York's Southern Tier, this "new" bridge stands out under cloudy skies.
Geierlay - Die Hängeseilbrücke mitten im Hunsrück, 360 m lang, 80 cm breit, 100 m über Grund, erstreckt sich über ein bewaldetes Seitental der Mosel zwischen Mörsdorf und Sosberg.
Hamburg HafenCity is currently the largest construction site in Europe.
In addition to the opening of the subway station Elbbrücken in 2018 about 1000 new apartments were occupied. Currently there are 1500 more apartments, various schools, hotels, cinemas under construction. Behind this construction site is the Baakenpark, opened in 2018.
Hamburg HafenCity ist derzeit die größte Baustelle Europas.
Neben der Eröffnung der U Bahn Station Elbbrücken wurden in 2018 ca. 1000 Neubauwohnungen bezogen. Derzeit befinden sich weitere 1500 Wohnungen, diverse Schulen, Hotels, Kinos im Bau. Hinter dieser Baustelle befindet sich der in 2018 eröffnete Baakenpark.
A 78-floor mirrored skyscraper used for hotel rooms & retail with a viewing deck at 1,030 feet (314 m).
La cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, Notre-Dame de Paris ou Notre-Dame est la cathédrale de l’archidiocèse de Paris, en France. Elle est située à l'est de l’île de la Cité, dans le 4ᵉ arrondissement de Paris. Notre Dame de Paris, Notre Dame de Paris or Notre Dame is the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Paris, France. It is located east of the island of the City, in the 4ᵉ district of Paris.
El Pati dels Tarongers és un dels espais més coneguts i bonics del Palau de la Generalitat. De fet, es troba a la planta principal del Palau.
Per el Sant Jordi de 2022, el primer normal des del Covid19, varem anar a visitar el Palau de la Generalitat.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palau_de_la_Generalitat_de_Catalunya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX4N581E58w
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This is the Pati dels Tarongers (Orange garden), an irregularly shaped main floor terrace, ornated with several orange trees, as was usual in late-medieval palaces.
In Sant Jordi day (the patron saint of Catalonia) we went to visit the see of the Government of Catalonia, el Palau de la Generalitat, in Barcelona. It's an impressive mostly medieval building. As was typical of the times, it's not a purpose-built structure but a collection of re-used gothic palaces, that grew with the history of Catalonia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palau_de_la_Generalitat_de_Catalunya
A video of it's history, in Catalan:
A soul-reflecting beautiful scenery, where the mind will not wander in the past nor contemplate about the future, but just 'be' in the present.
Slangenburg Castle is a castle in the municipality of Doetinchem in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands.
The castle is first mentioned in 1354 as the property of Maes (Thomas) van Baer.
Slangenburg Castle was constructed in the Late Medieval period. In the 17th century the castle became the property of General Frederik Johan van Baer, also known as General Slangenburg, who rebuilt it for residential purposes.
The last private owners were a German family called Passmann, who are buried in a private cemetery next to the moat.
At present the castle is used as a guesthouse by the nearby Benedictine monastery, St. Willibrord's Abbey (Sint-Willibrordabdij), a newly built structure of the 1950s situated on a part of the castle's former estate. The original monastic community, from Oosterhout Abbey, was initially accommodated in the castle itself in the years immediately following the war.