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THE BASILICA CISTERN 532 A.D.
Finally, we visit the last venue of the excursion.
The Basilica Cistern is one of the magnificent historical structures of Istanbul southwest of the Hagia Sophia.
The enormous underground cistern was built by Byzantine Emperor Justinian (527-565).
Nicknamed the Sunken Palace by the public as there was a Basilica where the Cistern is today.
There are 336 columns all at 9 meters high each & compose 12 rows with 28 columns in each row.
The columns are of both Doric & Corinthian style all lit up dramatically.
The Cistern has the capacity of 100,000 tons of water storage.
Entrance to Mt. Ida. These columns are the only remains of the plantation home of the Walker Reynolds Family. The mansion was struck by lightning in the 1950s and burned to the ground. These concrete Doric columns survived the fire. The mansion was constructed around 1840 by Walker Reynolds, one of the earliest settlers in Talladega County. His plantation grew to one of the largest in the State and Reynolds became one of the wealthiest men in Alabama.
The Chesme Colonna in the Catherine Park of Tsarskoye Selo is a monument symbolizing the power and glory of the Russian fleet. Doric column with a height of 25 meters was designed by architect Antonio Rinaldi from Olonets marble and installed in 1776 in the center of the Big Pond.
The Astoria Column has served for over 80 years as a beacon on the Pacific Northwest Coast. It sits in a wooded area 600 feet above sea level on Coxcomb Hill, Astoria, Oregon’s highest point. Majestic views of the countryside surrounding Astoria are the great Pacific Ocean to the west and the mighty Columbia River to the north.
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Looking along one of the main streets of the ancient city of Palmyra at dawn, before the other tourists were awake.
A column in the courtyard outside the hall of the Middle Kingdom temple of Reneutet, built by built by Amenemhat III and Amenemhat IV at Medinet Maadi, in the Faiyum.
Taken at the Temple of Horus at Edfu in November 2009. We were on a house trip to visit the folks working at Tell Edfu and had some time to visit the temple. I like the way this shot has a secret or private feel to it, like the viewer is "sneaking a peek"!
Some history: This major Ptolemaic cult temple was built between 237 BCE and 57 BCE, into the reign of Cleopatra VII. Of all the temple remains in Egypt, the Temple of Horus at Edfu is the most completely preserved. Despite its later date, it exactly reflects traditional pharaonic architecture and so provides an excellent idea of how all the temples once looked. Edfu is also very large: the second largest in Egypt after Karnak Temple.
Inside the Samuel R. Smith Infirmary. New Brighton, Staten Island. 2-1-12.
Visit abandonednyc.com for more photos and info on this demolished Staten Island landmark.
A view of the steps to the south aisle of the Trinity Chapel, Canterbury Cathedral. Norman St Anselm's chapel is on the right.
A column towers over visitors touring the Apadana Palace at Persepolis, Fars Province, Iran. Founded by Darius the Great (Darius I, ruled 522 BC-486 BC), Persepolis served as the seat of the Achaemenid Empire and was the setting for official receptions and festivals. Construction of the Apadana was begun by Darius the Great and completed by Xerxes I (ruled 486 BC-465 BC). It is the largest of the buildings at Persepolis and served as an audience hall. The Macedonian king Alexander the Great destroyed the city in 330 BC. Excavations at the site began in 1931 and Persepolis was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979.
Les Quatre Columnes restaurades de Puig i Cadafalch que va fer enderrocar la dictaruda de Primo de Rivera
Built between 1840 and 1843 Nelson's Column is a monument in Trafalgar Square in built to commemorate Admiral Horatio Nelson, who died at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The Corinthian column was designed by William Railton and was made of Dartmoor Graninte and cost £47,000. The Craigleith sandstone statue of Nelson is by E. H. Baily and the four bronze lions on the base, added in 1867, were designed by Sir Edwin Landseer.
Four bronze relief panels, cast from captured French guns and depicting the Battle of Cape St Vincent, the Battle of the Nile, the Battle of Copenhagen and the Death of Nelson at Trafalgar decorate the pedestal.
It was refurbished in 2006 at a cost of £420,000, at which time it was surveyed and found to be 14 ft 6 in shorter than previously supposed. The whole monument is 169 ft 3 in tall from the bottom of the pedestal to the top of Nelson's hat.
A flickrmeet at Dewstone Gardens organised by the WFC (WelshFlickrCymru) group. I was way out of my comfort zone with no beach or waterfalls or ruins and consequently struggled to take any photos which I consider satisfactory. In the end I resorted to using the 14mm lens to take a few extremaly wide angle shots. The sky was rather bland and I had to seriously work the blue and the clouds to get them like you see here - yes WFC flickrites, this is the original sky!
It's not clear to me at what point we arrived on Snaefellsnes Peninsula; 54 heads north from Borgarnes and then bends westward. Just before that bend happens, one reaches Eldborg, and a dirt road heads east towards the Eldborg crater. Along that dirt road are these fine basalt columns. Iceland
Roman marble columns with Karystos, Castello Rosso, and the Roman aqueduct in the background.
The columns were left when the Roman workers had to return to Rome in the 4th century A.D. when the Empire was beginning to fall and was under attack from barbarian tribes. They never returned and the columns have remained on the hillside ever since.
It is believed that 50% of Mount Ochi was removed to provide all corners of the Roman Empire with cipollino marble. This means that much of the landscape of Mount Ochi seen today is man-made.
Saint Peter's Square (Piazza San Pietro) is located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the papal enclave within Rome (the Piazza borders to the East the rione of Borgo). The open space which lies before the basilica was redesigned by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. He gave order to the space with his renowned colonnades, using the Tuscan form of Doric The colossal Tuscan colonnades (image above), four columns deep, frame the trapezoidal entrance to the basilica and the massive elliptical area which precedes it.
Der Petersplatz wurde von Gian Lorenzo Bernini zwischen 1656 und 1667 unter Papst Alexander VII. (1655–1667) vor dem Petersdom in Rom angelegt. Der Petersplatz ist Teil des Territoriums der Vatikanstadt. Die Kolonnaden bilden die Staatsgrenze zwischen Vatikanstadt und Italien.
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Trajan's Column is a monument in Rome raised by order of emperor Trajan. It is located in Trajan's Forum, built near the Quirinal Hill, north of the Roman Forum. Finished in 113, the spiral bas-relief commemorates Trajan's victory in his military campaigns to conquer Dacia.
The structure is about 30 meters (98 ft) in height, 38 including its large pedestal. The shaft is made from a series of 18 colossal Carrara marble drums, each weighing about 40 tons, with a diameter of about 4 metres (13 ft). The 200 meter (656 ft) frieze winds around the shaft 23 times. Inside the shaft, a spiral staircase of 185 stairs provides access to a viewing platform at the top.
Originally, the column was topped with a statue of an eagle, and later by a statue of Trajan himself. In 1588, it was replaced by a statue of St. Peter (which still remains) by Pope Sixtus V.
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A trip to the Victoria & Albert Museum with a short diversion to the Natural History Museum first to take some snapshots while the sun still shone...