MERIDA-EMERITA AUGUSTA
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Plaza de España
Desde su ordenamiento como tal, en época de los Reyes Católicos, la plaza ha sido lugar de mercado y donde se hallaban los pilares o fuentes de agua corriente. Sirvió igualmente como estrado para funciones teatrales, coso para corridas de toros a la jineta, marco de ajusticiamientos, mascaradas, luminarias, juegos de cañas y procesiones. Aquí recibía el pueblo a los monarcas y miembros de su familia en sus regias visitas, aquí también se proclamaba fidelidad a un rey cuando subían al trono o se cumplía con el duelo cuando fallecía. En esta gran plaza de traza rectangular fueron añadiéndose los edificios del poder desde inicios de la Edad Moderna hasta hoy.
De la fisonomía actual de la propia plaza destaca la presencia, en su centro, de una fuente neobarroca de mármol de finales del XIX.
Los soportales que se conservan, y que circundaban todo el recinto, son fruto de varias reformas. En sus diferentes fachadas se encuentran El Palacio de Los Mendoza, La Casa de Los Pacheco, El Círculo Emeritense, La Casa Consistorial, El Palacio de La China y en una esquina la Concatedral de Santa María.
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(excerpt from Wikipedia)
The Amphitheatre of Mérida (Spanish: Anfiteatro de Mérida) is a ruined Roman amphitheatre situated in the Roman colony of Emerita Augusta, present-day Mérida, in Spain.
The amphitheatre itself was completed in 8 BC.
It is part of the Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida, which is one of the largest and most extensive archaeological sites in Spain. It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1993.
Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, Mérida, Badajoz.
Arquitecto, Rafael Moneo. Construido entre 1980 y 1986.
Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, Mérida, Badajoz.
Arquitecto, Rafael Moneo. Construido entre 1980 y 1986.
Even with a bad traction motor on the lead engine, these four cowls have no problem bringing the seven-car Wayfreight and a loaded Spiritwood coal trainover the hill at Merida. What a sight and sound to see these old Canadian motors hauling tonnage across the Northern Plains!
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Palacio Canton
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A four unit lash of cowls including the DMVW 5439, 5501, 5500, and 5408 climb through the Merida loops with an 18 car wayfreight for Bismarck.
This train is paltry when compared to the monster 80 car train received from the CP in Max (see the earlier post). But this is pretty typical of the Missouri Valley Subdivision operations. Much of the traffic received in Max is terminated at the energy park near Coal Creek Junction.
With all things considered, we were lucky with this train at the loops. Included with the 7 loaded fly-ash cars, 1 load of dry wall, and 3 mty scrap cars were 7 re-routed mty hoppers bringing up the rear. Not only did this provide just enough train to wrap around itself, but these would also end up going to Napoleon along with the rear two motors. Two days later we would find this train making its way towards Hankinson for delivery to the CP.
The DMVW Spiritwood coal train/Wayfreight makes its way onto the horseshoe curve at Merida behind four cowls, two SD50Fs and two SD60Fs. Within a few minutes, the train will reemerge on the track in the foreground. The smokestacks of the Coal Creek Station, which I visited earlier that morning, are visible in the distance.