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We arrived to Monument Valley in a reddish sand storm, which created three dimensional photographs. see on large Monument Valley is located on Utah and Arizona border on Navajo land. The area lies entirely within the Navajo Indian Reservation on the Utah/Arizona border; the state line passes through the most famous landmarks.
The isolated red mesas and buttes surrounded by empty, sandy desert was an unforgettable site.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Valley
Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, pronounced [tsʰépìːʔ ǹtsɪ̀skɑ̀ìː], meaning "valley of the rocks") is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, with the largest reaching 1,000 ft (300 m) above the valley floor. The most famous butte formations are located in northeastern Arizona along the Utah–Arizona state line. The valley is considered sacred by the Navajo Nation, the Native American people within whose reservation it lies.
Monument Valley has been featured in many forms of media since the 1930s. Famed director John Ford used the location for a number of his Westerns. Film critic Keith Phipps wrote that "its five square miles [13 km2] have defined what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the American West".
Sourc: navajonationparks.org/navajo-tribal-parks/monument-valley/
History
Before human existence, the Park was once a lowland basin. For hundreds of millions of years, materials that eroded from the early Rock Mountains deposited layer upon layer of sediment which cemented a slow and gentle uplift, generated by ceaseless pressure from below the surface, elevating these horizontal strata quite uniformly one to three miles above sea level. What was once a basin became a plateau.
Natural forces of wind and water that eroded the land spent the last 50 million years cutting into and peeling away at the surface of the plateau. The simple wearing down of altering layers of soft and hard rock slowly revealed the natural wonders of Monument Valley today.
From the visitor center, you see the world-famous panorama of the Mitten Buttes and Merrick Butte. You can also purchase guided tours from Navajo tour operators, who take you down into the valley in Jeeps for a narrated cruise through these mythical formations. Places such as Ear of the Wind and other landmarks can only be accessed via guided tours. During the summer months, the visitor center also features Haskenneini Restaurant, which specializes in both native Navajo and American cuisines, and a film/snack/souvenir shop. There are year-round restroom facilities. One mile before the center, numerous Navajo vendors sell arts, crafts, native food, and souvenirs at roadside stands.
Additional Foreign Language Tags:
(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "米国" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis" "ארצות הברית" "संयुक्त राज्य" "США"
(Arizona) "أريزونا" "亚利桑那州" "אריזונה" "एरिजोना" "アリゾナ州" "애리조나" "Аризона"
(Utah) "يوتا" "犹他州" "יוטה" "यूटा" "ユタ州" "유타" "Юта"
(Monument Valley) "وادي النصب التذكاري" "纪念碑谷" "Vallée des monuments" "מוניומנט ואלי" "स्मारक घाटी" "モニュメントバレー" "모뉴먼트 밸리" "Долина Монументов" "Valle de los Monumentos"
F. Schiller, medico, poeta, filosofo e storico, è considerato uno dei più importanti drammaturchi poeti e saggisti tedeschi.
Il monumento che vedete qui a Ludwigsburg è opera dello scultore Ludwig von Hofer.
La statua fu creata in marmo a Carrara nel 1880 e la donò alla sua città natale.
Schiller nacque nella vicina città di Marbach am Neckar e trascorse sei anni della sua infanzia a Ludwigsburg.
... War Memorial, from the 'other side' where, if you squint a bit, you can see Heptonstall Church (on the first hill) and very tiny, Stoodley Pike (in the far distance)! I was in a fairly tight space here and would just like to apologise for not including the very top of the Monument! :-(
'To those who died for the freedom of Austria.' Met de negen provinciewapens verdeeld over het monument. En 'the eagle' aan top.
Landhausplatz Square.
Monument Falls is small but bucolic water feature along Rte. 86 between Lake Placid and Wilmington. A nice contrast to the rocky waterfalls white water along the West Branch of the Ausable River. Click for the HiRez goodness!
Explore : Oct. 5, 2018.
The Pakistan Monument in Islamabad, Pakistan, is a national monument representing the nation's four provinces and three territories. The Monument has been designed to reflect the culture and civilization of the country and depicts the story of the Pakistan Movement, dedicated to those who sacrificed themselves for future generations.
Monument Pokoritelyam Kosmosa
Monument to the Conquerors of Space
Sculptor: A. Faidysh-Krandievsky
Architects: A. Kolchin e M. Barshch (1964)
Photo: Lucas Gervilla
Moscow/2017
You must have seen this location in countless old western movies. No not Feroz Khan movies! Think John Wayne and Gregory Peck; not Feroz Khan! One of the most iconic locations in South-West states of Arizona and Utah, Monument Valley is a destination worth all the Gold that McKenna stashed here! Go dig it!
P.S.: We used to have an evening newspaper called "Pratap" in those days. It had one whole page for ads for movies running in the various theatres in the city. They would translate the English movie's names to Gujarati & I vividly recall Mckenna's Gold was translated to "Makwana Nu Sonu!"
Southern Monument Valley just before sumset. In this photo you have Elephant Butte, Spearhead butte and Cly butte.
It was an awesome morning as the photo opportunities started about 1 hour before sunrise and continued for a half hour after.
Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, meaning valley of the rocks) is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of vast sandstone buttes, the largest reaching 1,000 ft (300 m) above the valley floor. It is located on the Arizona-Utah state line (around 36°59′N 110°6′W), near the Four Corners area. The valley lies within the range of the Navajo Nation Reservation, and is accessible from U.S. Highway 163.
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The Wallace Monument was built in the 1860s to commemorate William Wallace (of Braveheart fame). It can be found just outside the city of Stirling in Scotland.
This shot was taken with a telephoto lens from inside Stirling Castle.
The column is a plague monument in Trinity Square in the castle district of Budapest next to St Mathias Church.
The square is named after the Trinity column (Szentháromság oszlop), a large plague column that was built between 1710 and 1713 to a Baroque design by Philipp Ungleich.
The column was built to celebrate the end of the plague and citizens hoped that it would protect them from another epidemic. The sculpture at the top represents the Holy Trinity. It sits on a sturdy pillar decorated with statues of little angels and - below - large statues of saints. The column rests on a large pedestal adorned with bas-reliefs and the Hungarian crest.
Holocaust Monument (Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe), Berlin, Germany
Also known as "The Spire of Dublin", was designed by Ian Ritchie Architects. It's 120 metres (390 ft) in height, and located on the site of the former Nelson Pillar on O'Connell Street in Dublin.
The monument was commissioned as part of a redesigned street layout in 1999. O'Connell Street was perceived to have gone into decline from the 1970s. Some people blamed the appearance of fast food restaurants and the opening of bargain basement shops-all using cheap plastic shop fronts-visually unattractive and obtrusive, the existence of a number of derelict sites, and the decision in 1966 by former members of the IRA to blow up the Nelson Pillar, as reasons for the decline in a once famous and attractive street.
In the 1990s, plans were launched to improve the streetscape. The excessive number of trees in the central reservation, which had overgrown and obscured the street's views and monuments, was reduced dramatically. Statues were cleaned and in some cases relocated. Shop-owners were required to replace plastic signage and frontage with more visually attractive designs. Private car traffic was re-directed where possible away from the street, with its number of traffic lanes reduced, to allow more 'public ownership' of the street for pedestrians. The centrepiece of this regeneration was to be a replacement monument for Nelson Pillar, the Spire of Dublin, chosen through an international competition by a committee under the then chairmanship of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Alderman Joe Doyle from a large number of submissions. It is also known as "The Spike".
Some intrepid tourists who have climbed to the top of The Monument, which is close to the spot in Pudding Lane where the Great Fire of London started in 1666.
The Monument to Alfonso XII is located in Buen Retiro Park, Madrid, Spain. The monument is situated on the east edge of an artificial lake near the center of the park. In 1902, a national contest was held to design a monument for King Alfonso XII at the initiative of the Queen Mother Maria Christina of Austria. Wikipedia
Greymouth memorial "In memory of those lost in coal mining incidents within the West Coast Inspection District"
This is a monument on the downtown riverfront where I live,
Evansville, IN USA...it's a very lovely peaceful place for a stroll etc. A week ago today...things started getting NOT so peaceful at flickr...so thought I'd post this pic...no other description necessary yes?
Laus Deo !
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLMVB0B1_Ts
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Pericles
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I just want to wish a fond, farewell to all my flickr friends. Looks like I 'm moving on to bigger and better things. I just got an email from the president of a large bank in Zimbabwe. I don't even know how he got my email address, but apparently this is my lucky day! It turns out that some very wealthy person there has died in a plane crash and has no heirs to leave the money to, so the bank has temporary custody of his millions of dollars, but they are not allowed to keep it. They just need someone in the United States to give the money to. All I needed to do was to wire them $3000 for processing fees, which obviously, I promptly did. So, now that the processing fees have been paid, I should be receiving a check for five million dollars sometime next week. I'm going to be quitting my job tomorrow, as I sit here and anxiously wait for the arrival of my check! This is so exciting!
Anyway... This was from Monument Valley, last month. It's the famous Mittens. Well... It's one of the Mittens, anyway. Not sure where the other Mitten went. I think it may have been out being repaired that day.