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VIANA DO CASTELO (Portugal): Fortim da Areosa.
Implantado numa enseada localizada no extremo da Praia Norte, na freguesia da Areosa, em Viana do Castelo, o Fortim da Areosa corresponde a uma fortificação de planta estrelada de pequenas dimensões. A estrutura é composta por quatro ângulos, ou redentes. Na face virada a terra, os redentes são ligados por cortina de alvenaria de pedra, em ângulo invertido, onde foi rasgada a porta de acesso, de arco de volta perfeita. Na face virada ao mar os redentes flanqueiam a bateria, em forma de meia-lua, com plataforma a barbete. No espaço interior encontram-se vestígios de edificações e da rampa de acesso à bateria.
Atualmente, e apesar de ter sofrido danos na estrutura, o fortim integra um dos percursos ambientais dos arredores da cidade de Viana do Castelo.
História
O Fortim da Areosa foi erigido na última década do século XVII, por ordem do monarca D. Pedro II, para reforçar o sistema defensivo então existente na zona costeira do Alto Minho. Este pequeno reduto militar tinha como objetivo reforçar a defesa da barra do rio Lima e do porto de Viana da Foz do Lima, cruzando fogo com a Fortaleza de Santiago, localizada poucos quilómetros a sudeste. A edificação terá sido levantada entre os últimos anos de Seiscentos e 1701, data apontada por Figueiredo da Guerra para a sua conclusão (GUERRA: 1926, p. 689).
Esta estrutura defensiva integra-se num conjunto de fortificações construídas entre as zonas de Vila Praia de Âncora e Esposende, numa época posterior à Guerra da Restauração, cujas semelhanças planimétricas e o facto de terem sido erigidas no mesmo período permitem considerar que na última década de Seiscentos foi elaborado um plano construtivo de novas estruturas militares para reforçar a linha de defesa da fronteira noroeste do Reino. Na zona entre os rios Minho e Lima foram erigidos os fortes do Cão e da Lagarteira, e os fortins da Areosa e de Montedor, que viriam assim reforçar o poder de fogo das fortalezas já existentes no litoral minhoto, então considerado insuficiente.
Este fortim, também conhecido localmente como Forte da Vinha ou Castelo Velho, apresenta flagrantes semelhanças com o Forte do Cão, em Caminha, sendo possível que, à semelhança deste, integrasse baluartes nos vértices.
Depois da sua desativação militar, o Fortim da Areosa foi votado ao abandono. Foi classificado como de interesse público em 1970, poucoas anos depois da classificação do conjunto de fortes acima citados. A estrutura recebeu obras de consolidação e restauro em 1972, 1973 e 1978, realizadas pela Direcção-Geral dos Edifícios e Monumentos Nacionais. No ano de 1983 a afetação só espaço foi transferida para a alçada da Comissão Regional de Turismo do Alto Minho. Cerca do ano 2000, foi elaborado o projeto do Centro de Interpretação e Apoio a Percursos Ambientais, da autoria do arquiteto Luís Teles, para ser instalado nas imediações do fortim.
Catarina Oliveira
DGPC, 2020
info: DGPC | Pesquisa Geral. www.patrimoniocultural.gov.pt/pt/patrimonio/patrimonio-im.... Acedido 19 de Novembro de 2021.
Directly below shot of the steel tower in Shiodome district, Tokyo.
Four corners of the Nippon TV Headquarters building are reinforced with these towers.
The height of the steel tower is approximately 200 meters and each steel pipe has a diameter of 120 centimeters.
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La torre está situada en el extremo y tiene una planta octogonal construida en mampostería con una cúpula de hierro que aloja la luz del faro.
New York City - August 21, 2023: Night view of the Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan from the Manhattan Bridge.
A Chapel in Romanesque style, built by miners, dedicated to St. Nikolaus is mentioned in a document dated to 1339. In the fifteenth century, because of the growing population, the chapel was extended and the choir was built in Giothic style. Until 1758 the chapel depended on Matrei am Brenner, than had its own Curate and on the same site, under the direction of Franz de Paula Penz, a new baroque church was built; in 1891 it was elevated to Parish.
New York City - May 1, 2023: Long exposure of clouds over the George Washington Bridge from the Fort Lee Historic Fort in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
Four young Barn Swallows huddle in a typical nest made of mud pellets and situated in a human-built structure. They were in the Alberta portion of Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park.
The Suspension Bridge was built by the French company Claranges Lucotte and Co., and opened to the public in 1843 to fill a need for a permanent bridge between Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia, replacing the Bridge of Boats. It was said that the bridge, which was officially known as the D. Maria II Bridge, trembled like a reed, and it was this lack of safety that dictated its short 44 years of existence. It had been quickly built because of large floods in Porto that rendered the old Bridge of Boats inoperable. It was deactivated in 1887 and replaced by the D. Luis I Bridge. The two stone obelisk shaped pillars are all that remains of the historic crossing.
The lovely Duomo di Orvieto, the main church in the historic, medieval hilltop city of Orvieto, Italy.
The old, abandoned rice granary (before it was demolished) near downtown Houston, Texas.
Taken with an Olympus OM-10 35mm film camera, circa 1990.
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Budapest, Hungary
City of Arts and Sciences
The City of Arts and Sciences is a cultural and architectural complex in the city of Valencia, Spain. It is the most important modern tourist destination in the city of Valencia and one of the 12 Treasures of Spain.
Designed by Santiago Calatrava and Félix Candela, the project began the first stages of construction in July 1996, and was inaugurated on 16 April 1998 with the opening of L'Hemisfèric.
Impressive not only from the outside, the Cathédrale La Major in Marseille also shows its impressive and beautiful side on the inside. A huge 1800s neo-Byzantine cathedral featuring an opulent interior lined with murals, mosaic & marble.
Lyon is not quite so flat, although many sights are easily accessible on foot and without major climbs, but for one or the other view is still a hill to climb. Or you take the bus, but then miss every now and then a view over the city. These make the climb worthwhile.
Like here after a long and steep staircase the view over the city and the Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste.
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New York City - December 21, 2022: Candy cane Christmas decorations on the 58th Street side of the Solow Building, also known as 9 West 57th Street. The Solow Building, west of Fifth Avenue between 57th and 58th Streets, was completed in 1974 and designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
The picture is from 2014. Taken with a small Pansonic camera. Actually there are three pictures that weren't even taken very congruently. Adope Photoshop and Lightroom, together with the ON1 plug-in, create such an image ..... impressive .... just don't enlarge too much. In spite of everything, the resolution is not that great.
The campanile of St. Mark’s is an imposing square plan tower about 99 metres high, crowned by a spire that was once a lighthouse for shipping. It is the prototype of all the campaniles of the lagoon area. It was first built in the 12th century on the site of what was probably a watchtower and rebuilt in its current form early in the 16th centurywith the addition of a belfry and with the spire faced in copper and topped by a sort of rotating platform with a statue of the Archangel Gabriel which functioned as a weathercock. Of the five original bells only the largest remains. The others, now replaced, were destroyed when the tower collapsed in 1902. From the belfry loggia there is a spectacular bird’s eye view of the city and the lagoon.
Колокольня Святого Марка-это внушительная квадратная башня плана около99 метров высокий, увенчанный шпилем, который когда-то был маяком для судоходства.Он является прототипом всех кампанил района лагуны.12 векена месте того, что, вероятно, было сторожевой башней и перестроен в своем нынешнем виде в начале16-го векас добавлением колокольни и шпиля, облицованного медью и увенчанного своего рода вращающейся платформой со статуейАрхангела Гавриила, которая выполняла функцию флюгера. Из пяти оригинальных колоколов сохранился только самый большой. Остальные, теперь замененные, были уничтожены, когда башня рухнула в море в 1902. С лоджии колокольни открывается захватывающий вид на город и лагуну с высоты птичьего полета.