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This is a short walk from the parking lot. Around the right side of this arch is the South Window and Turret Arch. They are very close by.
The Windows area is a really neat area with some outstanding arches. Double Arches and Parade of Elephants are in the area. Just passed the Balanced Rock you take a right turn to the Windows area.
Trakai Park was founded in 1991 by the Lithuanian Restoration Seimas in order to preserve cultural sites of Lithuanian historical statehood along with their genuine natural environs. In this unique and compact ensemble of natural and cultural heritage, which reflects important periods and events in the history of Lithuania and eastern Europe as a whole, we can see a beautifully preserved cultural landscape centred on an historic town and castles which are nestled in lake land. Here there are traditional agricultural villages, fieldscapes and areas where primaeval natural formations still survive. The value of Trakai Park has been preserved finely and its special status has been recognised and protected by a whole body of national legislation.
The polyethnic town of (New) Trakai with its Lithuanians, Karaites, Tatars, Jews, Russians, Germans and Poles grew up beside the castles and had broad political and commercial links with European towns and their communities and traditions of mediaeval sacral, secular and defensive architecture, secular and religious art and literature. The town had a unique form of self-administration based on Magdeburg Law and from the fifteenth century autonomous Christian and Karaite communities governed their own affairs. Trakai was the centre of a separate duchy in the fourteenth-sixteenth centuries, which stretched to Brest Litovsk in the south (now part of Belarus) and Bir2ai in the north (close to the modern Latvian border), and it was an important residence of the rulers of Lithuania. Trakai was a favourite grand-ducal residence, an acknowledged centre for political theatre with hunting and diplomatic rituals, ecclesiastical holidays and trade fairs.
I took this yesterday while I was in town as fraserpaul@btinternet.com and Helen Orozco had both commented on how interesting the attic windows looked on my photo from last week.
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Happy Window Wednesday! Joseph Smith Memorial Building, Salt Lake City, Utah.
The Joseph Smith Memorial Building, formerly the Hotel Utah, was built in 1911. This stately building, which was completely renovated and reopened in 1993, now houses the Legacy Theater, reception and conference rooms, a FamilySearch center, Nauvoo Café, and The Roof and The Garden Restaurants.
For seventy-six years the Hotel Utah presided as "the Grande Dame of Hotels" in the Intermountain West and was internationally recognized for its elegance and extraordinary service. Called "the Hotel" by locals and travelers alike, this ten-story white palace hosted legislators, Latter-day Saint conference-goers, conventioneers, visitors, skiers, and every U.S. president since William Howard Taft in 1912.
This image is one of three being incorporated into a montage for an upcoming gallery show...I'm tickled that my daughter still enjoys helping me out in front of the camera :)
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