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"Ad utrumque". This is the inscription carried by the famous lion represented on a tile panel above the main entrance to the Alcázar. It is the abbreviated version of the motto “Ad utrumque paratus”, from Virgil's “Aeneid”, which could be translated as “prepared for one and for the other” or “prepared for everything”. This door dates from the 14th century and was opened on the Almohad walls in the time of Pedro I. The objective was to give direct access to the magnificent Mudejar palace that the king was building inside the Alcázar. The representation of the lion that we see today was made in 1892 in the Triana ceramic factory of Mensaque, following a design by José Gestoso, art historian, researcher and great popularizer of Sevillian themes. The panel shows a lion with an open royal crown, who bears a cross on one of his legs and perches two others on a spear, all framed by a cord with knots at the corners. It follows the prevailing historicist criterion in the restorations of the time, since it must be remembered that the lion has been the animal most used historically to represent the king and, in general, the Spanish sovereignty. Specifically, Gestoso's design is very similar to that used in the times of Felipe III and Felipe IV, who also made use of the motto "Ad utrumque paratus", wanting to allude to the king's willingness to act, both in peace and in situations. times of war. Reminiscently, it is still the motto of the Navy Submarine Flotilla today.
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Veszprém is a town that loves music. What is important to us is not only the professionals, the big names and the mass events, but we also strive to make music an everyday part of our life. We motivate amateurs and hobby musicians, because music builds communities and gives our inhabitants experiences to remember. We are happy to think about the bands that have grown up here, the Street Music Festival, VeszprémFest, and the Auer Violin Festival. We are proud to say that all stars who have once performed here like to return to us thanks to the open and music-loving audience.
Due to this openness we have a school in Veszprém where 400 children are learning folk dance. There are three parallel classical music concert series to a full house, and every weekend we provide concerts and electronic music events to 100-1200 young people. Another result is that, relative to its size, Veszprém is a leading city in organising live music events.
We do not emphasize one single style or event but would like to focus on music itself as a tool of communication among people and communities. Participation is what actually counts, because we believe that music can make life better at individual and collective levels.
This is why we would like to create social areas for playing music, motivate learning to perform music, and bring inspiring events to the town. All in all we would like to simultaneously strengthen and widen basis (and also, if a pyramid has a wider base, its top can reach higher). At the same time, music and culture are both highly beneficial to the financial state of the town and tourism, and this fits the aims of ECoC 2023 Veszprém perfectly.
According to local legend, Helfštýn is named after the robber Helfried of Linva, who founded it. The castle was probably built in the last quarter of the 13th century. Around 1320 Vok of Kravař, a member of a prominent Moravian noble family, became the owner of the castle. Helfštýn remained in the possession of the Kravař family for more than a hundred years and underwent far-reaching structural changes during this period. Construction work began on a larger scale in the first half of the 14th century, but the main reconstruction of the castle into a Gothic fortress did not take place until the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century. The Kravařs mainly improved the fortifications of Helfštýn. They replaced the makeshift fortification of the old parkland with a thick stone wall with four bastions, built a prismatic tower over the entrance to the castle itself and secured it with a drawbridge, built a fortified forecourt on the south side and cut the ridge of the hill with a moat carved into the rock.
The era of the Pernštejn family
In 1474, William of Pernštejn took over the castle estate and proceeded to its further reconstruction. In the last quarter of the 15th century,
Helfštýn Castle was enlarged with a thoroughly fortified, extensive farm forecourt (completed in 1480) and another forecourt, which formed a new outpost defending the entire enlarged building. At the same time, the fortifications of the old Kravaře castle were improved with bastions and a new system of towers and gates. The castle's ground plan was definitively given an elongated shape, and in its external form the perfect fortification system significantly overlapped all the other architectural elements.
Renaissance reconstruction
At the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, the inner core of the castle was rebuilt into a Renaissance residence. The old castle palace was demolished, along with part of its original Gothic fortifications, and a magnificent Renaissance palace was built on the vacant space, in sharp contrast to the extensive system of late Gothic fortifications that surrounded it.
The destruction of the castle
In 1656, quite extensive demolition work was carried out, which, although it did not damage the fortifications of Helfštýn too much, definitively deprived it of the character of a manor house. And thus began the long-term destruction of the castle. The destruction was accelerated in the second half of the 18th century by the Ditrichstein family with demolition works. These attempts culminated in 1817, when part of the inner castle was destroyed by artillery fire.
Present day
The present-day character of the castle is that of a fortress with six gates and a series of 18th-century buildings and ramparts. Since the 19th century, the castle has been presented as a tourist and heritage site. Nowadays it has become a natural cultural centre of the region, with various cultural events taking place here throughout the season
The Plaza del Triunfo is a unique place, surrounded by such iconic and historical buildings as the Cathedral, the Convent of La Encarnación, the Archive of the Indies, the Reales Alcázares Palace and the building housing the Casa de la Provincia, formerly the Provincial Government Building, as well as being the entrance to the Santa Cruz neighbourhood, formerly the Jewish Quarter.
This irregularly shaped square was called the "Plazuela de la Lonja" in the Archive of the Indies, but since the 18th century it has been called the "Plaza del Triunfo".
The name is the result of the devastating earthquake suffered in Lisbon on 1 November 1755, which caused no personal damages to the faithful who went to the Cathedral to hear mass, so they decided to pay homage to this by naming the square. The "Triumph" is a magnificent testimony to what happened during the earthquake and was installed in the square as a symbol of thanks for divine protection.
Two years after the earthquake a monument was erected that should be attributed to José Tomás Zambrano. It is crowned by a figure of the Virgin with Child, called Virgin of the Triumph or Virgin of the Patron Saint.
At the beginning of the 20th century the square was remodelled in accordance with a project by Juan Talavera y Heredia and with a monument to the Immaculate Conception, the work of Lorenzo Coullaut Valera. It was sculpted in Carrara marble and the figure of the Blessed Virgin was inspired by La Inmaculada by Murillo who painted it for the Hospital de Los Venerables.
The pedestal of La Inmaculada is surrounded by four 17th-century characters who were renowned as defenders of the Dogma of Mary's Immaculate Conception. These are the Jesuit theologian Juan de Pineda, the poet Miguel Cid, the sculptor Juan Martínez Montañés and the artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.
Every year on the night of 7 December there is a floral offering to the virgin by the traditional university players of Seville.
Established around A.D. 972, Esztergom has always played an important role in Hungary's history. It was the birth and coronation place of the first Hungarian king, St. Stephen, as well as the capital of Hungary until the 13th century. Esztergom is the seat of the Hungarian Catholic Church and home to the Basilica of Esztergom, a masterpiece of Classicism and the third largest church in Europe.
The medieval castle on a cliff rising on the eastern side of the valley of the Hernád River, in the immediate vicinity of Boldogkőváralja. The Miocene andesite tuff Bodókő Hill, on which the castle stands, is part of the Zemplén Landscape Protection Area. Due to the beauty of the landscape and the relatively good condition of the castle, it is a popular hiking destination, which is one of the stops of the National Blue Tour.
The earliest part of the castle (an old tower surrounded by a fortification) was probably built after the Tartar invasion and was erected either by Ispán Tyba, son of Jaak of the tribe of Tomaj, or by Judge Aba Amadé. When Károly Róbert Anjou chased the Aba, the castle came to the Drugeth family, which was loyal to him, and later to Péter Czudar. In the 15th century, it became the property of Serbian princes István and György, and then of the Szapolyai family. In Turkish times, he often changed hands as one of the venues for the intense battles between the emperor and the king. It was acquired by the conquering György Rákóczi in 1666, later it became important several times in the Kuruc times, but even before the Rákóczi War of Independence, in 1701, it was made uninhabitable by the emperors. The ruin was taken possession of by the Jesuits in the 18th century, who used it as a grain warehouse. Later it became the property of the Péchy and then the Zichy family, who, however, no longer lived in the uncomfortable fortress, instead using a baroque castle built in the area of the serf village. Despite the bombing of imperial soldiers and the devastating centuries that followed, it is one of our best-preserved medieval castles.
Renaissance château from 1539, renovated in the Baroque style in the middle of the 18th century, the seat of the local Cultural facilities
Kőszeg (German: Güns, Croatian: Kiseg) is one of the most attractive towns in Hungary and a popular tourist destination for Hungarians as well as foreign tourists. The town, located in Western Hungary near to the Austrian border, was awarded the Hild Prize (Hungarian architecture prize) in 1978 for preserving its architectural heritage. Kőszeg, also called as Hungary’s Jewel Box, has managed to retain its natural charm and the beauty of its architecture.
Despite the tragic events of the last century the historical structure of the town center has remained more or less unaltered. Every year, Kőszeg hosts the Siege Days festival, commemorating and reenacting the siege launched against the town by the Ottoman Turks in 1532. The charming small town also famous for its schools, recreation areas, restaurants, pubs and wine cellars.
Twin Towers, Rhuddlan Castle, Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, North Wales.
Twin Towers, Rhuddlan Castle, Coordinates..53.2889°N 3.464528°W
Twin Towers, Rhuddlan Castle, Rhuddlan Castle (Welsh: Castell Rhuddlan; is a castle located in Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, Wales. It was erected by Edward I in 1277, following the First Welsh War.
King Edward I liked his castles to be on the coast. It was safer that way. If his ruthless campaign to subdue the Welsh ran into trouble, supplies could still get through by sea.
At Rhuddlan, several miles inland, the plan was to use a river instead. Just one problem – the meandering Clwyd wasn’t quite in the right place. So Edward conscripted hundreds of ditch-diggers to deepen and divert its course.
More than seven centuries later Rhuddlan still looks like a castle that was worth moving a river for. Begun in 1277 it was the first of the revolutionary concentric, or ‘walls within walls’, castles designed by master architect James of St George.
Most impressive was the inner diamond-shaped stronghold with its twin-towered gatehouses. This sat inside a ring of lower turreted walls. Further beyond was a deep dry moat linked to the River Clwyd.
This bristling statement of Edwardian intent guarded a new town surrounded by ditched defences. You can still clearly make out the medieval grid layout of the streets in modern-day Rhuddlan.
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Castle De Haar is one of the most famous and visited castles in all of Holland and was originally founded in the late 1300’s by the Van de Haar family, whose standing in society allowed them the comfort of building a fortified abode.
By 1449, the castle became the property of the Van Zuylen family thru marriage. In 1482, the castle was destroyed due to differences of opinion (quarrels) between the city of Utrecht and its bishop
By the 17th century, the Van Zuylen family line had become extinct and the castle was inherited by the Van Stembors, who originated from the south of Holland - present day Belgium. French soldiers attacked and damaged the castle during the years 1672 and 73.
In 1801, Castle De Haar passed to JJ.van Zuylen van Nijevelt, a distant cousin of the Zuylen family. JJ had inherited a castle that was in a poor state of repair due to 200 years of neglect. Upon his death, these magnificent ruins passed to his son Baron Etienne van Zuylen van Nijevelt in 1890.
The rebuilding of the castle was started in 1892 under the guidance of one of Holland’s most famous architects Dr PHJ Cuypers. It is his influence on Castle De Haar that we see today. PHJ Cuypers rebuilt the castle as close as possible to the original outlines and were there was not sufficient material to work with he used his own ideas of what a medieval castle should look like. The interior was rebuilt to a luxurious standard with the inclusion of electricity. A new bailey with an entrance gate was built on its original foundations.
Today the castle is surrounded by parkland but this was not always the case. From the medieval period to the end of the 19th century, the village of Haarzuilens had been surrounded the castle. Haarzuilens was completely demolished and relocated some one and a half kilometres away to the west. The village chapel however was saved from this wilful destruction and incorporated into the new park.
Castle De Haar is now a museum and opens to the public except during the month of September when the Van Zuylen van Nijevelt family turn it back into a home for their month long stay.
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The adres for the car navigator, Kasteel de Haar,
Kasteellaan 1,3455 RR Haarzuilens.
One of the most iconic elements of the vista of the Danube Bend is the castle rising out of the steep mountainside above Visegrád. From within its walls we can marvel at the breathtaking view of the city below and the serpentine of the Danube in front of the lush, mountainous landscape. As one of Hungary’s largest fortifications, its size and splendor were considered exceptional even at the time of its building, in 1250.
I have been trying to capture my home town in the south of France. Probably one of my favourite places in the world for so many reasons and getting back there always brings back so many memories.
According to local legend, Helfštýn is named after the robber Helfried of Linva, who founded it. The castle was probably built in the last quarter of the 13th century. Around 1320 Vok of Kravař, a member of a prominent Moravian noble family, became the owner of the castle. Helfštýn remained in the possession of the Kravař family for more than a hundred years and underwent far-reaching structural changes during this period. Construction work began on a larger scale in the first half of the 14th century, but the main reconstruction of the castle into a Gothic fortress did not take place until the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century. The Kravařs mainly improved the fortifications of Helfštýn. They replaced the makeshift fortification of the old parkland with a thick stone wall with four bastions, built a prismatic tower over the entrance to the castle itself and secured it with a drawbridge, built a fortified forecourt on the south side and cut the ridge of the hill with a moat carved into the rock.
The era of the Pernštejn family
In 1474, William of Pernštejn took over the castle estate and proceeded to its further reconstruction. In the last quarter of the 15th century,
Helfštýn Castle was enlarged with a thoroughly fortified, extensive farm forecourt (completed in 1480) and another forecourt, which formed a new outpost defending the entire enlarged building. At the same time, the fortifications of the old Kravaře castle were improved with bastions and a new system of towers and gates. The castle's ground plan was definitively given an elongated shape, and in its external form the perfect fortification system significantly overlapped all the other architectural elements.
Renaissance reconstruction
At the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, the inner core of the castle was rebuilt into a Renaissance residence. The old castle palace was demolished, along with part of its original Gothic fortifications, and a magnificent Renaissance palace was built on the vacant space, in sharp contrast to the extensive system of late Gothic fortifications that surrounded it.
The destruction of the castle
In 1656, quite extensive demolition work was carried out, which, although it did not damage the fortifications of Helfštýn too much, definitively deprived it of the character of a manor house. And thus began the long-term destruction of the castle. The destruction was accelerated in the second half of the 18th century by the Ditrichstein family with demolition works. These attempts culminated in 1817, when part of the inner castle was destroyed by artillery fire.
Present day
The present-day character of the castle is that of a fortress with six gates and a series of 18th-century buildings and ramparts. Since the 19th century, the castle has been presented as a tourist and heritage site. Nowadays it has become a natural cultural centre of the region, with various cultural events taking place here throughout the season
Čičva Castla Ruins stand on a hill in Ondavská Highlands above the village Sedliská. The castle was built in the 14th century and became a guard fortress at the "Polish Gate".
It was the centre of the vast estate, which included more than 60 villages. In 1527, during the reign of Drughet family it was a meeting place and headquarters of the archive of Zemplínska stool. In the same year John Zápoľský conquered the castle and set it in fire. During the fire also the archive of Zemplin Stool had burned. However, the castle was renovated and repaired again.
In 1684 it was captured by the Thokoly troops. In 1704 it was seized by troops of Francis II Rákóczi. The damaged parts were repaired and secured the castle. It was until 1711 in the hands of the Rákóczi insurgents. Then Count Francis Barkóci gave it to imperial troops, who put him to demolish.
Juché sur son éperon rocheux, le Château de Vêves domine la vallée du village de Celles depuis près de 800 ans. Ce remarquable château médiéval en pierre calcaire appartient toujours à la même famille depuis sa fondation au Moyen-Age !
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The viewing terrace at Castle Landsberg in Ratingen offers a beautiful spot to enjoy the surrounding landscape and the historical ambiance of the castle. Castle Landsberg is a medieval castle located on a hill in the wooded area between Ratingen and Essen, Germany.
The distinct dominant of the town Fiľakovo on the Slovak-Hungarian frontier are the ruins of its Castle, which survived the Tartar raids in the 13th century.
The Castle is first referred to in the 13th century. It was rebuilt in the first half of the 15th century, widened and fortified in the 16th century. Although the fortification of the Castle was to defend it against the Turks, they conquered it in 1554.
It remained in the hands of the Turks for almost 40 years. It became the centre of the so-called Fiľakovo sanjak, (a Turkish administrative district) encompassing the whole of what is today the region of Poiplie. The Castle was re-conquered from the Turks only in 1593. The year 1682 was also fatal for the Castle, as the rebellious troops of Imrich Thököly conquered it and it has gone derelict since then.
The pentagonal Bebekova bašta bastion stands next to the entrance to the Castle. It has a roof and its gross shape has been preserved until the present day. In one of its external walls there is a half-sunk bulky canon ball, reminiscent of the 1682 siege. An exhibition of Castle and town history has been installed in the bastion. Remains of the Palace, a watchtower and a massive half-circle cannon bastion (the "clock" bastion) can still be seen in the upper castle. The Castle provides a wonderful view of the whole town and its environs.
Čičva Castla Ruins stand on a hill in Ondavská Highlands above the village Sedliská. The castle was built in the 14th century and became a guard fortress at the "Polish Gate".
It was the centre of the vast estate, which included more than 60 villages. In 1527, during the reign of Drughet family it was a meeting place and headquarters of the archive of Zemplínska stool. In the same year John Zápoľský conquered the castle and set it in fire. During the fire also the archive of Zemplin Stool had burned. However, the castle was renovated and repaired again.
In 1684 it was captured by the Thokoly troops. In 1704 it was seized by troops of Francis II Rákóczi. The damaged parts were repaired and secured the castle. It was until 1711 in the hands of the Rákóczi insurgents. Then Count Francis Barkóci gave it to imperial troops, who put him to demolish.
On a little island just a little mile away from land, a nice wrecked castle is located. The view towards Aarhus in Denmark is absolutely gorgeous from there. But I focused on the newly installed design inside the walls, that enhances the attraction quite a lot.
What I like about the photos is how the modern design is contrasting the old brickwalls, and still create a symbiose.
A fragment of the Pena National Palace in Sintra, Portugal. This palace is incredibly beautiful even though it has lost most of its original splendor and vivacity of the exterior coloring. Its architectural design is simply brilliant. It is what one would expect to see in some imaginary kingdom as the King's palace. An absolute must see place if you are ever in the vicinity...
On a little island just a little mile away from land, a nice wrecked castle is located. The view towards Aarhus in Denmark is absolutely gorgeous from there. But I focused on the newly installed design inside the walls, that enhances the attraction quite a lot.
What I like about the photos is how the modern design is contrasting the old brickwalls, and still create a symbiose.
On a little island just a little mile away from land, a nice wrecked castle is located. The view towards Aarhus in Denmark is absolutely gorgeous from there. But I focused on the newly installed design inside the walls, that enhances the attraction quite a lot.
What I like about the photos is how the modern design is contrasting the old brickwalls, and still create a symbiose.
Because I worked as an Electronic Design Engineer in the Defense Industry, I went on numerous Business Trips to then McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) in St. Louis. I spent a great amount of time (after work hours) Railfaning in Downtown St. Louis. In the Mid 1980's, St. Louis Union Station, which is located on Market Street between 18th and 20th Streets, was converted to a Hotel and Shopping Mall with Stores, Restaurants and a Food Court. While I was there I purchased several Post Cards just in case the exposures of my photographs were unsatisfactory. Here is a Postcard of a Tourist/Railfan Train that ran excursions out of the St. Louis Union Station Train Shed.
The Train Shed behind the Station served as a Railroad Museum with Covered Wagons (E and F Units, aka Diesel Locomotives), a Steam Engine, and several pieces of Rolling Stock (aka Box Cars) with advertising Murals of Anheuser Busch Beer and other local industries. There was even a Tourist Train that took visitors on short excursions. I will try to find my slides of the Rolling Stock that was stored under the train shed, scan the slides and post some of the photos to flickr™. Further information about St. Louis Union Station can be found at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Station_(St._Louis)
Trains no longer stopped at Union Station, however Amtrak used a Trailer for a station about half a mile East of Union Station and there was an active Freight Rail Yard just Southeast of Union Station. There were also several Railroad Bridges that crossed the Mississippi River to East St. Louis, Illinois. Also a Light Rail Line called Metrolink ran from Lambert–St. Louis International Airport, past the St. Louis Cardinals (Baseball) Busch Stadium in a Tunnel and then crossed the Mississippi River over on Edes Bridge, stopping at a Gambling Casino on the Illinois side of the River. Metrolink was later extended further East to serve Scott Air Force Base in Illinois.
Established at the confluence of the Seine and a small tributary, the Gambon, the Château-Gaillard whose function was to prohibit use of the Rouen road and monitor the Vexin, disputed between the dukes of Normandy and the kings of France and recklessly conceded by Richard to Philippe Auguste in 1195. The castle was in fact only the keystone of a vast presence locking the Seine Valley and including strong advances, the ramparts of the large villages (bourgs) of Vieil Andeli Petit Andeli, a fortified bridge and the royal manor on an island in the river.
Built on a spur of the right bank of the river, cut off on three sides, the structure presented revolutionary innovations that made it a masterpiece of military architecture. In particular the deeper extension of the defences on a unique junction: the keep, provided with a spur and solid buttresses bearing the first machicolation; connected to its flanks, its elliptic chemise wall with a enveloped profile to eliminate any dead angles; then a trapezoidal curtain wall flanked by four large round towers, these two outer walls one fitting into the other; and finally, at the weakest point, an enormous triangular fortress, supported by high corner towers and reinforced at its tip by the powerful bastion of the Mint (la Monnaie).
This Bastille; a sort of shield made inaccessible by a deep moat; stood facing the plateau, from where attacks would originate. It is naturally on this terrain that Philippe Auguste installed his siege equipment, his archers and his sappers at the end of the summer of 1203. On 6 March of the following year the Bastille capitulated, opening the road to Rouen and Normandy to the King. The death of Richard in 1199, the passivity of John Landless, the insufficiency of the garrison, but also the presence of the neighbouring plateau, where the enemy was able to place its troops, was the reason for the formidable and successive defences of the Château. Despite everything, this constitutes a sort of conclusion of the Romanesque military architecture and introduced a new age of fortified castles, marked by the tight and concentric formation of the fortifications and the contraction of the defensive perimeter.
The fairytale-like Power House and Clock Tower at Boldt Castle, sitting at the water’s edge on Heart Island. With its conical turrets and stone arch bridge, the structure evokes Old World charm, surrounded by the beauty of the St. Lawrence River and Thousand Islands.
These 5 photos are of the elaborate entrance to Ducketts Grove which was designed by John MacDuff Derick (1810-1859).
The complete entrance is well over 100M wide and it's impossible to get a shot of it's totality without removing a hedge on the other side of the road.
See a photo of the big house that is Ducketts Grove HERE
A majestic view of Boldt Castle, a romantic, Rhineland-style mansion located on Heart Island in the Thousand Islands region of the Saint Lawrence River, New York. Surrounded by lush trees and rocky terrain, the castle’s striking stone façade, arched windows, turrets, and red-roofed towers stand as a monument to the enduring legend of love and loss. Originally built by millionaire hotelier George C. Boldt in the early 1900s, the castle now serves as a popular tourist destination, offering a glimpse into Gilded Age grandeur.
These 5 photos are of the elaborate entrance to Ducketts Grove which was designed by John MacDuff Derick (1810-1859).
The complete entrance is well over 100M wide and it's impossible to get a shot of it's totality without removing a hedge on the other side of the road.
See a photo of the big house that is Ducketts Grove HERE
These 5 photos are of the elaborate entrance to Ducketts Grove which was designed by John MacDuff Derick (1810-1859).
The complete entrance is well over 100M wide and it's impossible to get a shot of it's totality without removing a hedge on the other side of the road.
See a photo of the big house that is Ducketts Grove HERE
These 5 photos are of the elaborate entrance to Ducketts Grove which was designed by John MacDuff Derick (1810-1859).
The complete entrance is well over 100M wide and it's impossible to get a shot of it's totality without removing a hedge on the other side of the road.
See a photo of the big house that is Ducketts Grove HERE
A stone tower on Heart Island, part of the famous Boldt Castle estate in the Thousand Islands, rises above the surrounding trees. The turreted structure, with its medieval-inspired design, is built from rustic stone and topped with a wooden spire. Surrounded by early autumn foliage and set against a clear blue sky, the tower evokes the romantic architecture of the Gilded Age.