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Columna en el edificio de la Alhóndiga de Bilbao. Basque Country. Spain.Column in the Alhóndiga building.
Outside Westminster Abbey. The work of Gilbert Scott (1881). You can see Queen Victoria and, to her right, King Henry III (who rebuilt the Abbey back in the 13th century) and on top, St George slaying a now headless dragon.
The Mosque of Amr ibn al-As is a photographer's paradise for repitition and beauty :D
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At Chichen Izta, Mexico. The one thousand columns site near the Warriors Temple, suposed to be a mayan anciant market.
Columns from the Palace of Merenptah, the best preserved royal palace ever excavated in Egypt, in the Lower Egyptian Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Donato Bramante, Tempietto, c. 1502, San Pietro in Montorio, Rome. The "Tempietto" or little temple is a martyrium (a building that commemorates a martyrdom) that marks the traditional site of Saint Peter's crucifixion. It is considered by many architectural historians to be the perfect embodiment of High Renaissance.
Basic structure is 5thC CE, constructed using granite and marble columns from ancient Roman buildings (spolia).
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Columns at the Westin Diplomat Spa and Resort in Hollywood Beach, FL
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although this building isn't that old, i like to think that its centuries old... it certainly looks like it!
In the Guildhall, York, light from a stained glass window is colouring this oak column.
York Guildhall is located behind the York's Mansion House and was built in the 15th century, it served as a meeting place for the guilds of York. The city's guilds largely controlled the trade within York, they oversaw the quality of the workmanship within the city and looked after their members' interests
Because of damage sustained during an air raid in 1942, the present Guildhall is a rebuilt version of the 15th century building, and was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1960. The stone walls, however, escaped total destruction and now form the frame of the reconstructed hall. A single tree trunk was used for each oak pillar, the originals coming from the royal Forest of Galtres in North Yorkshire.
A most unusual putty colour, these columns turn to gold in the evening just before the sun dips behind the horizon.
Columns of Hammond castle from way down. I had to go all the way down to the coast to take the shot with the sky as the background.
Here is a shot of the columns from the other side with the view of the ocean.
Italo Balbo (June 5, 1896 - June 28, 1940) was an Italian blackshirt leader, aviator, governor of Libya, and heir apparent of Benito Mussolini.
On November 6, 1926, despite the fact that he knew nothing at the time about aviation, Balbo was appointed Italy's Secretary of State for Air by Mussolini. He went through a crash course of flying instruction and then set out to build the Regia Aeronautica, the Italian air force. On August 19, 1928 he became General of the Air Force and on September 12, 1929 Minister of the Air Force.
Balbo led two transatlantic flights. The first was the 1930 flight of twelve Savoia-Marchetti S.55 flying boats from Orbetello, Italy to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil between December 17, 1930 and January 15, 1931. From July 1 - August 12, 1933 he led a flight of 24 flying boats on a round-trip flight from Rome to the Century of Progress in Chicago, Illinois. The flight ended on Lake Michigan near Burnham Park. In honor of this feat, Mussolini donated this column from the ruins of a Roman Temple in Ostia to the city of Chicago; it can still be seen along the Lakefront Trail, a little south of Soldier Field.
Chicago renamed Seventh Street "Balbo Drive" and staged a parade in his honor. President Franklin D. Roosevelt invited him to lunch. The Sioux even honorarily adopted Balbo as "Chief Flying Eagle" Back home in Italy, he was promoted to Air Marshal. After this, the term Balbo entered common usage to describe any large formation of aircraft.