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This is Stradun, the beautiful and well-trodden limestone-paved main street which runs the length of Dubrovnik’s Old Town. It’s been pedestrianised for some 50 years now and is all the better for that. It’s stuffed with cafés, bars and tourist shops.
Stradun has been the city's main thoroughfare since the 13th century, and its present appearance dates from 1667, the year of the devastating earthquake in which most of the buildings in Ragusa (as Dubrovnik was then called) were destroyed.
Europe, Belgium, Vlaanderen, Antwerpen, Italiëlei, Parkbrug, Cyclist (slightly cut from all sides)
The Parkbrug (2016) connects the ‘postindsutrial’ Antwerp parque: "Park Spoor Noord" with the redeveloped Eilandje quarter. It’s a CAD/CAM bridge: here and the final element of the Park Spoor Noord redevelopment project.
It's acually a pedestrians and cyclist passerelle, crossing this very busy Italiëlei thoroughfare and finally connecting the park with the Eilandje in a pleasing urban gesture.
'Park Spoor Noord' has an intersting hostory: it's a transformed former railway site where the NMBS (the Belgian national rail operator) from 1873-2001 parked, maintained and repaired locomotives and trainsets. The train sheds and associated industrial buildings with the very large rail emplacement formed a wedge between the surrounding neighbourhoods of Dam, Stuivenberg and Seefhoek.
The site measures 24 hectares (1.6 km long). The park is now a contemporary urban landscape park with an emphasis on green, light, space, relaxation, culture and sport. It used to end abruptly near the building site of the AP university/campus. After the large building complex was opened, a broad pedestrian lane/cycle path was realized that connects with the Parkbrug.
During the demolishing / redeveloping of the sheds and industrial buildings (2007), Park Spoor Noord park looked like this here. here , here , here , here and here.
This number 91 of the Antwerpen album and number 106 of the Urban Restucturing (World) one.
So, I’m fresh (well actually still quite tired) from our visit to València, which I mentioned in my previous post, and went out every morning and most evenings, grabbing pictures. But as I knew I wouldn’t have time to do any editing whilst away I didn’t bother taking a laptop, which means that I have a busy time ahead trawling through, and processing the many, many images taken.
In the meantime though, here is an image shot and edited on my phone (a standard jpeg not even shot as raw). I had treated myself to the iPhone 17 Pro, just before going away, which is a significant upgrade to my previous 12 Pro.
This is the L'Àgora building on the science park, at sunrise, with the Assut de l'Or Bridge cutting across in front of it, both of which are being reflected in the pool in the foreground.
I was wanting somebody, either walking or cycling through under the bridge to add an extra element. Thankfully I didn’t had to wait a too long as this is a fairly busy thoroughfare.
I composed this photograph during a recent trip through Alberta, Canada's Kananaskis Country (K-Country), a wilderness and recreational area west of Calgary. It is of masses of wildflowers growing in the grassy areas that can be found beside forests or near the area's main thoroughfare, Hwy 40. And in K-Country, mountains provide the backdrop for every scene.
Kananaskis Country (K-Country) is a wilderness recreation area west of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The name Kananaskis was chosen 150 years ago to name the lakes, valley, and river visited by Captain John Palliser on his expedition through the area. The name comes from the Cree 'Kin-e-a-kis' and is said to be the name of a warrior who survived an axe blow to the head.
Archaeological evidence of human use of Kananaskis Country goes back over 8000 years, and the Stoney-Nakoda, Siksika, Blood, and Kootenai First Nations all have deep connection to this land. The mountains one sees now look the same as the ones seen by these long-term residents thousands of years ago.
The jagged peaks and u-shaped valleys throughout Kananaskis Country are 12,000 year-old reminders of the last ice age, revealed as kilometre-thick, million-year old glaciers melted to mere remnants. The actual mountains were formed over the past 200 million years as tectonic plates forced layers of rock to pile, break, and fold into mountains once much taller than the post-glacier peaks we see today. The rock itself, mainly limestone, comes from layers of fossilized sea creatures that lived hundreds of millions of years ago in an inland sea that once covered southern Alberta.The evidence is seen in ancient coral reefs, oyster beds, and shark teeth throughout Kananaskis Country.
Just after 11 am we arived at the Mohaka River Bridge....
Built in 1962, the two-lane, steel-framed Mohaka River Bridge is located in an isolated area along the Napier-Taupo Road (State Highway 5). Elevated 50 metres above water level on two reinforced-concrete piers, it stretches 215 metres across the river – providing a vital thoroughfare for freight and passenger traffic throughout the year.
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No morning sun for this thoroughfare that runs through some of the trails that I walk, so it rarely dries up.
Thuburbo Majus (or Thuburbo Maius) is a large Roman site in northern Tunisia. It is located roughly 60 km southwest of Carthage on a major African thoroughfare.[1] This thoroughfare connects Carthage to the Sahara. Other towns along the way included Sbiba, Sufes, Sbeitla, and Sufetula. Parts of the old Roman road are in ruins, but others do remain.[2]
PS : i treated this shot a lot to reach this final result.
Toronto, CANADÀ 2024.
Front Street West is one of the main east-west thoroughfares in downtown Toronto, renowned for being the location of most of the city's iconic landmarks and a major transportation hub.
Central Function: The street serves as the central spine of the city's entertainment, convention, and sports district, located just north of Lake Ontario.
Key Landmarks: The western section of Front Street is home to some of Toronto's most famous structures:
The CN Tower.
The Rogers Centre (retractable roof stadium).
The Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC).
Union Station (Canada's primary rail station and transit hub).
Historical Significance: The street originally ran along the shore of Lake Ontario before large land reclamation projects in the 19th century moved the waterfront back. Many historic buildings (like the St. Lawrence Market) are located on the street's eastern stretch.
Toronto, CANADÀ 2024.
University Avenue is a grand north-south thoroughfare in downtown Toronto, designed as a wide, ceremonial boulevard that serves as the city's main civic and medical axis.
Civic Design: It is known for its wide central median and formal layout, intended to emulate state and civic avenues in other great cities. It is lined with statues, monuments, and flags.
Institutional Corridor: The avenue runs from Front Street, through the city's financial core, up to Queen's Park. Along its route, it hosts:
Finance: The Financial District (at the south end).
Medicine: Many of Toronto's major research and teaching hospitals (the "medical corridor").
Education/Government: The University of Toronto (near the north end) and the Ontario Legislature (at Queen's Park).
Key Landmarks: It includes the Campbell House (a historic landmark), the courts, and the Osgoode Hall building. The avenue transitions into Queen's Park Crescent at the north end, circling the Parliament building.
Going back to St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy the next morning.
Venice, the capital of northern Italy’s Veneto region, is built on more than 100 small islands in a lagoon in the Adriatic Sea. It has no roads, just canals – including the Grand Canal thoroughfare – lined with Renaissance and Gothic palaces. The central square, Piazza San Marco, contains St. Mark’s Basilica, which is tiled with Byzantine mosaics, and the Campanile bell tower offering views of the city’s red roofs.
Florence Ave from Inglewood to Huntington Park in LA was a particularly industrious and interesting thoroughfare. Didn't get shots of most of what I spotted as I was doing a work delivery in a giant truck.
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Cardo Maxiumus:
Built in the 1st century AD and complete with manholes to underground drainage, the street still bears the hallmarks of the city's principal thoroughfare
Pedestrian thoroughfare, Barcelona, Spain, not far from our AirBnB, returning after an early dinner of tapas (appetizers), and beer, of course, on our first day (of three) in the city.
Construite entre 1829 et 1834, Victoria Street est réalisée par l’architecte Thomas Hamilton dans le style flamand ancien avec des façades imposantes et des arches proéminentes. La rue remplace l’une des principales artères de la ville, la West Bow, une fente en forme de Z effroyablement raide, offrant un accès beaucoup plus facile du Grassmarket à Castlehill. Nommée Bow Street jusqu’en 1837, elle prendra son nom définitif en 1937 lors de l’accession au trône de la reine Victoria.
La vieille ville d’Edimbourg est remplie d’histoires et de mystères, ce quartier ne fait pas exception. Un homme surnommé le « magicien de l’arc ouest », le Major Weir qui habitait le quartier, fut exécuté pour sorcellerie en 1670. Rien d’étonnant en sachant que plus de 4 000 sorcières présumées ont été mises à mort dans cette ville ressource inépuisable pour tout auteur en quête d’inspiration. J.K. Rowling semble s’être inspirée dans ses romans de Victoria Street pour décrire le chemin de Traverse : cette ruelle un peu biscornue où Harry Potter et ses amis sorciers achètent les fournitures scolaires avant d’aller à Poudlard : Prends une bonne poignée de poudre de cheminette, parles bien fort et distinctement, et dis “chemin de Traverse” ! Avec ses vieux pavés, ses boutiques, ses bâtiments colorées et ses toitures pointues, cette vieille rue correspond en tous points à la description. Les Moldus quant à eux peuvent visiter un magasin jouant sur cette anecdote : le Diagon House (le chemin de Traverse se dit Diagon Alley dans la version originale). Fait amusant, il y avait, dans les années 1990 (année d’écriture du premier tome), une banque et une librairie/papeterie dans cette rue, à peu près situées au même endroit que la banque Gringotts et la boutique de Fleury et Boot dans le Chemin de Traverse. Aujourd’hui vous trouverez de nombreux cafés, des boutiques d’objets en tous genres et une des plus anciennes librairies de la ville.
Built between 1829 and 1834, Victoria Street was designed by architect Thomas Hamilton in the old Flemish style with imposing facades and prominent arches. The street replaces one of the city's main thoroughfares, the West Bow, a frighteningly steep Z-shaped cleft, providing much easier access from the Grassmarket to Castlehill. Named Bow Street until 1837, it took its final name in 1937 when Queen Victoria acceded to the throne.
Edinburgh's Old Town is full of stories and mysteries, this area is no exception. A man nicknamed the “Wizard of the West Arc,” Major Weir, who lived in the neighborhood, was executed for witchcraft in 1670. No wonder more than 4,000 suspected witches were put to death in this resort town inexhaustible for any author in search of inspiration. J.K. Rowling seems to have drawn inspiration from her Victoria Street novels to describe Diagon Alley: that slightly crooked alley where Harry Potter and his wizarding friends buy school supplies before going to Hogwarts: Take a good handful of powdered Floo, speak loud and clear, and say Diagon Alley! With its old cobblestones, its shops, its colorful buildings and its pointed roofs, this old street corresponds in every way to the description. Muggles can visit a store playing on this anecdote: the Diagon House (Diagon Alley is called Diagon Alley in the original version). Fun fact, there was, in the 1990s (the year the first volume was written), a bank and a bookshop/stationery on this street, roughly located in the same place as the Gringotts bank and the shop of Fleury and Boot in Diagon Alley. Today you will find many cafes, shops of all kinds and one of the oldest bookstores in the city.
BNSF Sweetgrass coal loads by way of the Belt Railway of Chicago via Commercial Avenue Yard, snakes off the CN thoroughfare and onto NICTD rails at Kensington Junction bound for Cleveland Cliffs at Burns Harbor, IN.
Engineer Tyler Guthrie is at the helm of a pair of CSS GP38-2s (2004/2000) and a CSS SD38-2 (804) on train PF-9, as they pass the ever so decaying 108 year old Illinois Central interlocking tower that once controlled one of the more busier junctions in Chicago of Metra, Illinois Central and South Shore. Taken: 4-27-25
Carcassonne is a fortified French town in the Aude department, of which it is the prefecture, in the Region of Occitanie.
Occupied since the Neolithic period, Carcassonne is located in the Aude plain between two major thoroughfares linking the Atlantic to the Mediterranean sea and the Massif Central to the Pyrénées. Its strategic importance was quickly recognized by the Romans who occupied its hilltop until the demise of the Western Roman Empire and was later taken over in the fifth century by the Visigoths who founded the city. Also thriving as a trading post due to its location, it saw many rulers who successively built up its fortifications, until its military significance was greatly reduced by the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659.
The city is famous for the Cité de Carcassonne, a medieval fortress restored by the theorist and architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in 1853 and added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1997.
This is a boulevard. In modern American boulevard means a wide, multi-lane arterial thoroughfare, divided with a median down the middle, and perhaps with roadways along each side designed as slow travel and parking lanes and for bicycle and pedestrian usage, often with an above-average quality of landscaping and scenery.
Wiki told me this :)
As we'd say in Cornwall "Tis some pretty"
This shot was taken by my daughter from her office on Elizabeth Street, Sydney. Early evening and lovely light and cloud formations at this time.
A magic moment looking east, with the sun going down behind her building. The main thoroughfare of William Street can be seen at centre, leading to the iconic red Coca-Cola sign. The harbour can be seen at left and in the distance to the right are the tall buildings of Bondi Junction.
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Market Street is an important thoroughfare in San Francisco, California. It begins at The Embarcadero in front of the Ferry Building at the northeastern edge of the city and runs southwest through downtown, passing the Civic Center and the Castro District, to the intersection with Corbett Avenue in the Twin Peaks neighborhood. Beyond this point, the roadway continues as Portola Drive into the southwestern quadrant of San Francisco. Portola Drive extends south to the intersection of St. Francis Boulevard and Sloat Boulevard, where it continues as Junipero Serra Boulevard.
Market Street is the boundary of two street grids. Streets on its southeast side are parallel or perpendicular to Market Street, while those on the northwest are nine degrees off from the cardinal directions.
Market Street is a major transit artery for the city of San Francisco, and has carried in turn horse-drawn streetcars, cable cars, electric streetcars, electric trolleybuses, and diesel buses. Today Muni's buses, trolleybuses, and heritage streetcars (on the F Market line) share the street, while below the street the two-level Market Street Subway carries Muni Metro and BART. While cable cars no longer operate on Market Street, the surviving cable car lines terminate to the side of the street at its intersections with California Street and Powell Street.
Construction
Market Street cuts across the city for three miles (5 km) from the waterfront to the hills of Twin Peaks. It was laid out originally by Jasper O'Farrell, a 26-year old trained civil engineer who emigrated to Yerba Buena, as the town was then known. The town was renamed San Francisco in 1847 after it was captured by Americans during the Mexican-American War. O'Farrell first repaired the original layout of the settlement around Portsmouth Square and then established Market Street as the widest street in town, 120 feet between property lines. (Van Ness now beats it with 125 feet.) It was described at the time as an arrow aimed straight at "Los Pechos de la Chola" (the Breasts of the Maiden), now called Twin Peaks. Writing in Forgotten Pioneers.
Nottingham’s Park Tunnel (1855) is a little used engineering mistake intended to link a wealthy neighbourhood of Victorian homes to a main city thoroughfare by tunnelling through the city’s soft sandstone bedrock. Unfortunately it was never used as intended as the incline was too steep for horses and carriages. It now terminates in a car park. There is a void with stairs halfway along its length opening it up to the sky, creating the light in the middle of the tunnel. Nottingham, UK.
While waiting for South Shore Freight AF12 to leave Belt Railway of Chicago’s Commercial Avenue Yard a couple miles north of here, CN’s Recycle Job made a surprise appearance first, as that was the reason CSS hadn’t gotten their light at Fordham onto CN trackage.
CN train R9679106 from Canadian National’s Glenn Yard, head’s south through the busy Kensington junction on the Thoroughfare, passing the decaying 108 year old Illinois Central interlocking tower. CN 9615 (GP40-2LW) leads a former IC GP38-2, as they rattle over the South Shore diamonds on their trip to Cook County Lumber just south of here on the CN Chicago Sub. Taken: 4-6-25
Another from a rather deserted Royal Mile in Edinburgh - unheard of in the context of the usual high tourist season which runs across July and August. This shot looks in the opposite direction, west, from Parliament Square by St Giles' Cathedral.
The Royal Mile is a succession of streets forming the main thoroughfare of the Old Town of the city of Edinburgh in Scotland. The term was first used descriptively in W M Gilbert's Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century (1901), "...with its Castle and Palace and the royal mile between", and was further popularised as the title of a guidebook, published in 1920.
From the Castle gates to the Palace gates the street is almost exactly a mile (1.6 km) long and runs downhill between two significant locations in the royal history of Scotland, namely Edinburgh Castle and Holyrood Palace, hence its name. The streets which make up the Royal Mile are (west to east) Castlehill, the Lawnmarket, the High Street, the Canongate and Abbey Strand. The Royal Mile is the busiest tourist street in the Old Town, rivalled only by Princes Street in the New Town, (but not in 2020).
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Today's photo fits more into the category of "gimmick" than "artistically valuable".
Here you can see the main thoroughfare through the Khao Yai National Park in Thailand. As you can see, this is a fairly hilly area (and extremely windy in places - with very tight corners) so you usually travel very slowly. I came up with the idea for this photo when I saw this sight in the rearview mirror. So of course I had to stop and put this idea into action.
A little bit of information on the side: Since the national park is quite large, it would be very tedious and time-consuming for the locals to always drive around it. However, since you have to pay entry to the park (approx. 5 €), the locals could not afford to go through in the long run. That's why Thais have an 80% reduced entrance fee.
Nevertheless, fortunately there is very little through traffic here (at least on the two days I was here). Which of course suits nature very well. However, I had to re-shoot a few times to take this photo because a car drove by. After all, my plan included not having any of them in the photo and, more importantly, not getting run over.
Das heutige Foto ist mehr der Kathegorie "Spielerei" als der "künstlerisch wertvoll" zuzuordnen.
Ihr seht hier die Hauptdurchgangsstrasse durch den Khao Yai Nationalpark in Thailand. Wie ihr erkennen könnt, ist das ein recht hügliches Gebiet (und streckenweise auch extrem kurvenreich - mit sehr engen Kurven) so dass man in der Regel sehr langsam unterwegs ist. Auf die Idee mit diesem Foto bin ich gekommen, als ich diesen Anblick hier im Rückspiegel gesehen hatte. Also musste ich natürlich auch gleich anhalten und diese Idee in die Tat umsetzen.
Kleine Info am Rande: Da der Nationalpark ziemlich groß ist, wäre es auch für die Einheimischen sehr mühsam und zeitaufwendig immer darum herum zu fahren. Da man jedoch für der Park Eintritt bezahlen muss (ca. 5 €) könnten sich die Einheimischen die Durchfahrt auf Dauer nicht leisten. Darum haben Thailänder einen um 80 % reduzierten Eintrittspreis.
Trotzdem ist hier, zum Glück, nur sehr wenig Durchgangsverkehr (zumindest an den beiden Tagen, als ich hier unterwegs war). Was der Natur natürlich sehr entgegen kommt. Trotzdem musste ich ein paar mal neu ansetzen um dieses Foto zu machen, weil ein Auto vorbei gekommen ist. Schließlich beinhaltete mein Plan keins davon auf dem Foto zu haben und was noch wichtiger war, nicht überfahren zu werden.
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Grabbed this shot with my phone this morning. Good thing I did, because the day has slipped away from me now.
Continuing with my mini-project of photographing these historic neon signs around various neighborhoods in San Diego, this is the famous Boulevard gateway sign along El Cajon Boulevard that in the past was a major east-west thoroughfare through the county.
From the 1940s to the 1960s, this busy road was lined with drive-in restaurants, malt shops and motels that featured many neon signs. As the decades went by the neon signs disappeared and the surrounding area fell into urban decay.
In 1989 city and local business leaders erected this landmark sign to attract new businesses and revitalize the local community.
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Construite entre 1829 et 1834, Victoria Street est réalisée par l’architecte Thomas Hamilton dans le style flamand ancien avec des façades imposantes et des arches proéminentes. La rue remplace l’une des principales artères de la ville, la West Bow, une fente en forme de Z effroyablement raide, offrant un accès beaucoup plus facile du Grassmarket à Castlehill. Nommée Bow Street jusqu’en 1837, elle prendra son nom définitif en 1937 lors de l’accession au trône de la reine Victoria.
La vieille ville d’Edimbourg est remplie d’histoires et de mystères, ce quartier ne fait pas exception. Un homme surnommé le « magicien de l’arc ouest », le Major Weir qui habitait le quartier, fut exécuté pour sorcellerie en 1670. Rien d’étonnant en sachant que plus de 4 000 sorcières présumées ont été mises à mort dans cette ville ressource inépuisable pour tout auteur en quête d’inspiration. J.K. Rowling semble s’être inspirée dans ses romans de Victoria Street pour décrire le chemin de Traverse : cette ruelle un peu biscornue où Harry Potter et ses amis sorciers achètent les fournitures scolaires avant d’aller à Poudlard : Prends une bonne poignée de poudre de cheminette, parles bien fort et distinctement, et dis “chemin de Traverse” ! Avec ses vieux pavés, ses boutiques, ses bâtiments colorées et ses toitures pointues, cette vieille rue correspond en tous points à la description. Les Moldus quant à eux peuvent visiter un magasin jouant sur cette anecdote : le Diagon House (le chemin de Traverse se dit Diagon Alley dans la version originale). Fait amusant, il y avait, dans les années 1990 (année d’écriture du premier tome), une banque et une librairie/papeterie dans cette rue, à peu près situées au même endroit que la banque Gringotts et la boutique de Fleury et Boot dans le Chemin de Traverse. Aujourd’hui vous trouverez de nombreux cafés, des boutiques d’objets en tous genres et une des plus anciennes librairies de la ville.
Built between 1829 and 1834, Victoria Street was designed by architect Thomas Hamilton in the old Flemish style with imposing facades and prominent arches. The street replaces one of the city's main thoroughfares, the West Bow, a frighteningly steep Z-shaped cleft, providing much easier access from the Grassmarket to Castlehill. Named Bow Street until 1837, it took its final name in 1937 when Queen Victoria acceded to the throne.
Edinburgh's Old Town is full of stories and mysteries, this area is no exception. A man nicknamed the “Wizard of the West Arc,” Major Weir, who lived in the neighborhood, was executed for witchcraft in 1670. No wonder more than 4,000 suspected witches were put to death in this resort town inexhaustible for any author in search of inspiration. J.K. Rowling seems to have drawn inspiration from her Victoria Street novels to describe Diagon Alley: that slightly crooked alley where Harry Potter and his wizarding friends buy school supplies before going to Hogwarts: Take a good handful of powdered Floo, speak loud and clear, and say Diagon Alley! With its old cobblestones, its shops, its colorful buildings and its pointed roofs, this old street corresponds in every way to the description. Muggles can visit a store playing on this anecdote: the Diagon House (Diagon Alley is called Diagon Alley in the original version). Fun fact, there was, in the 1990s (the year the first volume was written), a bank and a bookshop/stationery on this street, roughly located in the same place as the Gringotts bank and the shop of Fleury and Boot in Diagon Alley. Today you will find many cafes, shops of all kinds and one of the oldest bookstores in the city.
Royal Route: The city has some buildings surviving from the time of the Hanseatic League. Most tourist attractions are located along or near Ulica Długa (Long Street) and Długi Targ (Long Market), a pedestrian thoroughfare surrounded by buildings reconstructed in historical (primarily during the 17th century) style and flanked at both ends by elaborate city gates. This part of the city is sometimes referred to as the Royal Route, since it was once the former path of processions for visiting Kings of Poland. Gdańsk Town Hall
Ratusz Głównego Miasta. Oddział Muzeum Gdańska
Gdańsk Main Town Hall is a historic Ratusz located in the Gdańsk Main City borough of Śródmieście. It is one of the finest examples of the Gothic-Renaissance historic buildings in the city, built at the intersection of Ulica Długa and Długi Targ, in the most popular part of Gdańsk. The Main Town Hall in Gdańsk houses the History Museum of the City of Gdańsk.
The Main Town Hall in Gdańsk is located on Ulica Długa, part of the Royal Route.
The oldest fragments of the town hall come from 1327 to 1336 - the building was then much smaller in size, which led to its expansion in the subsequent years.
The first major expansion of the building began in 1378. The tower was complete in the years of 1486-1488; the building of which was led by Henryk Hetzel. The tower was completed by Michał Enkinger, with a high dome in 1492.
Heavily damaged in WW2, with the loss of the top of the tower, it was carefully repaired and reconstructed, largely complete by 1952.
The Artus Court, formerly also Junkerhof, (Polish: Dwór Artusa) is a building in the centre of Gdańsk, Poland, at Długi Targ 44, which used to be the meeting place of merchants and a centre of social life. Today it is a point of interest of numerous visitors and a branch of the Gdańsk History Museum.
In the weeks leading up to Christmas, visitors leaving Essen central station to the north are immediately tempted by savory treats and mulled wine offered from numerous stalls lining the main pedestrian thoroughfares of the city.
My heart from now is a private road
No thoroughfare,
No heavy load.
No slow traffic, no graphic details
Of colder collisons.
No more stories to make me end.
~ Bent
One of the main thoroughfares running through Hyde Park normally full of cyclists, joggers and pedestrians. Apsley Gate is at the end of the walk followed by Wellington Arch in the centre of Hyde Park roundabout.
A non-HDR composition.
Princes Street is one of the major thoroughfares in central Edinburgh, Scotland, and the main shopping street in the capital. It is the southernmost street of Edinburgh's New Town, stretching around 1 mile (1.6 km) from Lothian Road in the west, to Leith Street in the east. The street is mostly closed to private cars, with public transport given priority. The street has virtually no buildings on the south side, allowing panoramic views of the Old Town, Edinburgh Castle, and the valley between.
"The 1879 Hooper Strait Lighthouse, now standing on Navy Point, was originally built in 1879 to light the way for boats passing through the shallow, dangerous shoals of Hooper Strait, a thoroughfare for boats bound from the Chesapeake Bay across Tangier Sound to Deal Island or places along the Nanticoke and Wicomico Rivers. As a “screwpile” lighthouse, it is built on special iron pilings which were tipped with a screw that could be turned into the muddy bottom for a depth of 10 feet or more. CBMM’s lighthouse is the second lighthouse constructed at Hooper Strait – the first one was destroyed by ice in 1877."
It's late afternoon, the end of summer. Fog rolls in from the sea,crawling up the thoroughfare. The glow of sun pierces the haze, casting a ghostly glow on the empty lobster boats.
Venice, Italy at night.
Venice, the capital of northern Italy’s Veneto region, is built on more than 100 small islands in a lagoon in the Adriatic Sea. It has no roads, just canals – including the Grand Canal thoroughfare – lined with Renaissance and Gothic palaces. The central square, Piazza San Marco, contains St. Mark’s Basilica, which is tiled with Byzantine mosaics, and the Campanile bell tower offering views of the city’s red roofs.
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Garden Village, Burnaby, British Columbia
Kingsway is a major thoroughfare that crosses through the Canadian cities of Vancouver and Burnaby, British Columbia. The road runs diagonally from northwest to southeast, emerging from Vancouver's Main Street just south of East 7th Avenue and becoming 12th Street at the Burnaby–New Westminster border.
Historic wooden house at Kalnciema iela 24, built in1879 by architect Julius Pfeiffer.
There are a lot of wooden houses in Riga. are 23 one-and two-storey buildings line Kalnciema iela, a very busy thoroughfare running towards Riga Airport.
The Royal Mile (Scots: Ryal Mile) is a succession of streets forming the main thoroughfare of the Old Town of the city of Edinburgh in Scotland. The term was first used descriptively in W M Gilbert's Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century (1901), "...with its Castle and Palace and the royal mile between", and was further popularised as the title of a guidebook, published in 1920.
From the Castle gates to the Palace gates the street is almost exactly a mile long and runs downhill between two significant locations in the royal history of Scotland, namely Edinburgh Castle and Holyrood Palace, hence its name. The streets which make up the Royal Mile are (west to east) Castlehill, the Lawnmarket, the High Street, the Canongate and Abbey Strand. The Royal Mile is the busiest tourist street in the Old Town, rivalled only by Princes Street in the New Town.
Just after 11 am we arived at the Mohaka River Bridge....
Built in 1962, the two-lane, steel-framed Mohaka River Bridge is located in an isolated area along the Napier-Taupo Road (State Highway 5). Elevated 50 metres above water level on two reinforced-concrete piers, it stretches 215 metres across the river – providing a vital thoroughfare for freight and passenger traffic throughout the year.
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A spectacular night viewing the glow of the Australis Aurora from a long obsolete bridge in Southern New Zealand, this crossing was once the main thoroughfare and is a fantastic suspension bridge from old days. The Milky way hung low in the sky as I spent this night at a free campground with a dear friend after splunking solo a mile deep into a glowworm natural caving system. It's eerie to travel deep into caves, especially when you've never been there, and only heard about the formation, luckily this one was quite well marked with a mostly obvious route. But it's easy to get turned around underground, and on the way back more than once I felt like I was going the wrong way. We turned around at a deep pool of water that you can apparently get through and come out the other side of, but we didn't want to risk it so deep underground.
“Oxford Street (P1. B29. 33 II) Once known as Tyburn Road, the broad busy thoroughfare leading due E. from the Marble Arch, is one of the chief approaches from the West end to the city. Characteristic of London in its bustle and its irregular architecture, it contains few points of special interest…”
- Findlay Muirhead, London & Its Environs (2nd Ed.) 1922