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Montpelier, Vermont - the smallest capital city in the USA with an estimated population of just over 7,000. Shot with the Olympus E-5.
I've taken a few pics of the US Capital but never this side. Here it is from our trip to DC back in April. A pano taken with the Nikon 20mm and stitched in Photoshop. May it never experience another day like it did on January 6th 2021 and all those involved with the attempted overthrow be held responsible.
a short fly to Dresden - the saxonian capital. Enjoy the view from the Frauenkirche and think about Canaletto. Why he love Dresden?
Esta es la capital de la isla francesa de Córcega. Aquí se puede apreciar La Ciudadela, que está situada en un sitio estratégico para proteger a la ciudad de Ajaccio de los posibles ataques marítimos. El fuerte fue construido en 1492, y luego hubo ampliaciones a partir de mediados del siglo XVI. Se destruyen numerosos edificios, entre ellos la iglesia Sainte-Croix, primera catedral de la ciudad. La ciudadela cuenta con un “castello”, un torreón y seis bastiones. No es posible visitarla, puesto que pertenece al ejército.
Very early morning hoot in the capital and a nice chance to capture an iconic landmark without the crowds.
I thought this was a different perspective of the capital building. I was waiting for the green light to cross to the other side of a busy street. This is looking down Pennsylvania Avenue.
The chain bridge that spans the River Danube between Buda and Pest, the western and eastern sides of Budapest, the capital of Hungary. It was the first permanent bridge across the Danube in Hungary, designed by English engineer William Tierney Clark and built by Scottish engineer Adam Clark. It was opened in 1849. It is anchored on the Pest side of the river to Széchenyi Square (formerly Roosevelt Square), adjacent to the Gresham Palace and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and on the Buda side to Adam Clark Square, near the Zero Kilometre Stone and the lower end of the Castle Hill Funicular, leading to Buda Castle.
The bridge bears the name of István Széchenyi, a major supporter of its construction, but is most commonly known as the "Chain Bridge". At the time of its construction, it was regarded as a marvel of modern engineering.
Esztergom was the capital of Hungary from the 10th till the mid-13th century when King Béla IV of Hungary moved the royal seat to Buda. During the same period, the castle of Esztergom was built on the site of ancient Roman castrum. It served not only as the royal residence until the 1241 (the Mongol invasion), but also as the center of the Hungarian state, religion, and Esztergom county.
After changing his residence to Budapest, Béla IV gave the palace and castle to the archbishop. Following these events, the castle was built and decorated by the bishops. The center of the king’s town, which was surrounded by walls, was still under royal authority. A number of different monasteries did return or settle in the religious center.
Meanwhile, the citizenry had been fighting to maintain and reclaim the rights of towns against the expansion of the church within the royal town. In the chaotic years after the fall of the House of Árpád, Esztergom suffered another calamity: in 1304, the forces of Wenceslaus II, the Czech king occupied and raided the castle. In the years to come, the castle was owned by several individuals: Róbert Károly and then Louis the Great patronized the town.
The Ottoman conquest of Mohács in 1526 brought a decline to the previously flourishing Esztergom as well. In the Battle of Mohács, the archbishop of Esztergom died. In the period between 1526 and 1543, when two rival kings reigned in Hungary, Esztergom was besieged six times. At times it was the forces of Ferdinand I or John Zápolya, at other times the Ottomans attacked. Finally, in 1530, Ferdinand I occupied the castle. He put foreign mercenaries in the castle, and sent the chapter and the bishopric to Nagyszombat and Pozsony.
However, in 1543 Sultan Suleiman I attacked the castle and took it. Esztergom became the centre of an Ottoman sanjak controlling several counties, and also a significant castle on the northwest border of the Ottoman Empire. In the 17th century Esztergom was besieged and conquered several times during the Ottoman-Habsburg Wars. Most of the buildings in the castle and the town that had been built in the Middle Ages were destroyed during this period, and there were only uninhabitable, smothered ruins to welcome the liberators.
In 1761 the bishopric regained control over the castle, where they started the preliminary processes of the reconstruction of the new religious center: the middle of the Várhegy (Castle Hill), the remains of Saint Stephen and Saint Adalbert churches were carried away to provide room for the new cathedral.
Quito, la capital de Ecuador, se ubica en la altura de las laderas de los Andes a 2,850 m. Fue construida sobre los cimientos de una antigua ciudad inca y es famosa por su centro colonial bien conservado, con varias iglesias de los siglos XVI y XVII, y otras estructuras que mezclan estilos europeos, moriscos e indígenas.
Gracias amig@s por sus gentiles visitas, generosos comentarios o por señalarla entre sus favoritas,
On my previous trips to Utah I passed over visiting Capital Reef National Park being more than a little bit out of the way and being restricted by vacation scheduling and limited by how much you can travel with a bunch of screaming whining kids in the back seat. This time being retired I decided not to pass it over this time and I was glad I did. This is one of the best views from the park from my visit that day.
Located near the double bends of the Kentucky River in the Blue Grass Region at Frankfort. Image taken near the grave of Daniel Boone and his wife Rebecca on a bluff at the Frankfort Cemetery.
Fall colors and a small stream all added to the amazing scenery that surrounds Torrey Utah and Capital Reef.
No hay otra ciudad que logró conservar sus características históricas como Berna, la capital de Suiza. El casco antiguo de Berne es Patrimonio Mundial de la UNESCO, contando con 6 kilómetros de arcadas, las así llamadas "Lauben", uno de los paseos de compras más largos y protegidos contra la intemperie de Europa.
Con sus numerosas fuentes, fachadas de arenisca, callejones y torres históricas, la ciudad ofrece un aire medieval singular. La vista más bella al casco antiguo a orillas del río Aare se disfruta desde el Rosengarten (jardín de rosas) encima del BärenPark (parque de osos) o bien desde la plataforma de la catedral de 101 metros de altura. Los antiguos fuertes y bastiones se hallan a gran altura encima del río. Los boutiques, bares y teatros de cabaré del casco antiguo, en parte en las bóvedas de sótanos así como los pequeños cafés callejeros atraen tanto a los habitantes de la ciudad como también a los turistas.