Doors and Windows around the world
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A gate in the ancient Roman Aurelian walls, named after the church San Giovanni in Laterano, just a stone's throw away. So the wall is ancient, it was built 271-275 A.D. and named after the emperor Aurelian (Aurelianus). The gate is not the original from that time, the gate for this part of the wall is the Porta Asinaria that is right next to this one. But with all the traffic to the church the pope decided to have a new gate built in the 1570s, and the result is this one - inaugurated in 1574 (probably more practical but very much less imposing than the Asinaria one which is situated just beside it - and looks like this www.flickr.com/photos/dameboudicca/50779414817/
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The southern most of the medieval city gates of the town of Viterbo. The only decoration of the gate is the town crest: a lion with a palm tree. Right next to gate is Palazzo di Donna Olimpia. The house actually dates to the beginning of the 15th century, when it was built by monks who needed a safe place to retreat to when their own abbey was unsafe. Donna Olimpia Maidalchini - the sister-in-law of the pope - acquired the palace in 1564. It was later turned into an orphanage. It is now home to several local clubs and associations in Viterbo (and in some need of repair.... Trust me, I have been inside!).
I chose a sepia treatment here, to deal with the glaring light in the original shot (a midday sun in Italy in the summer is hard to work with) and to make the information sign and the car less eye-catching.
Hotel Porta Fira is a 113 metres high skyscraper hotel designed by a Japanese architect Toyo Ito and located on Plaça de Europa in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, a suburb of Barcelona. Its facade is covered with red aluminium tubes.
Arte Digital - Digital Art
Image-editing
Effects - Texture - Color
Double Exposure
Software: Pixlr; Windows Paint 3D; PicsArt Photo Studio
Image created with edits made to my original photos.
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Brasília, Brasil
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This week - 19 September → 25 September of 2021,
~ Doors And Portals~