Alentejo - Monsaraz

Perched above the Alqueva dam, Monsaraz benefits from a strategic location and a defensive potential that has always been recognized, as the Roman, Visigothic and Celtic passages attest.

Conquered to the Moors, in the reign of D. Dinis and delivered its defense to the Templars, it is this military order that adds to it, in the 14th century, the walls and the castle from where, even today one can look at neighboring Spain or extend the view across the great Alentejo plains.

With its narrow cobbled streets, which meander among ancient houses with white walls, it offers those who pass by there a very authentic feel of an ancient and medieval Portugal.

Alentejo - Monsaraz

Empoleirada por cima da albufeira do Alqueva, Monsaraz benificia duma localização estratégica e de um potencial defensivo desde sempre reconhecido, como a passagem de romanos , visigodos e celtas o atestam.

Conquistada aos mouros , no reinado de D. Dinis e entregue a sua defesa aos Templários, é esta ordem militar que lhe acrescenta, no século 14, as muralhas e o castelo de onde, ainda hoje se pode olhar para a vizinha Espanha ou estender a vista através das grandes planícies Alentejanas.

Com suas ruas estreitas de paralelepípedos, que serpenteiam entre casas antigas de paredes brancas, oferece a quem por lá passa uma sensação, muito autentica, de um Portugal antigo e medieval.

We are producers of walls, even invisible, also internally.

Those trees again.

sunbathing on a stone. He has some red velvet mites as pets.

Bryce Canyon National Park

Hannover

We spent the day at Taughannock Falls State Park with the splendid 400 foot gorge walls and 215 foot waterfall.

Within the old Lodgings building this wall spoke to me - the different colours, shapes, the chips and marks on each stone, and within a wall that's over 500 years old.

suburb street details

on Rose street Bokaap

The remains of a stable wall of the former Hawkwood House (long demolished) and now part of Epping Forest.

The Dales wallers liked to draw on the landscape

My subject of interest was the fishing boat, but the photo ended up including this ornamental stone wall as well.

The wall is part of a children's play area, the latter of which is on the other side of the right hand wall.

Taken La Roque Gage, Dordogne, France,

A rare capture of people working.

'Wall of Windows' as viewed from the Peekaboo Loop Trail -

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, United States

I'm revisiting the photos I took of Bryce Canyon back in 2009, reprocessing many, adding a few, and deleting others.

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Stockholm 2017

Blue and white wall on 2nd St.

Evening sunlight dappling through street trees onto a bright yellow wall. An outdoor spotlight connects it visually to the intersecting cream painted brick wall.

Not sure what this plant is? Any help? Spot the snail within the foliage too

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urban details

Ventilator

The big man...

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