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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.
Generally a bustling thoroughfare. However Shelter In Place and the second great pandemic have cleared the streets of its normal inhabitants.............Not A Soul In Sight.
Via Giulia is a street in the historic centre of Rome, Italy, mostly in rione Regola, although its northern part belongs to rione Ponte. It was one of the first important urban planning projects in Renaissance Rome.
History
The Via Giulia was designed circa 1508 by Pope Julius II but the original plan was only partially carried out. This was the first attempt since Antiquity to pierce a new thoroughfare through the heart of Rome and a very early example of urban renewal. Via Giulia runs from the Ponte Sisto to the church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, following the tight curve of the Tiber. In the 16th-century, housing facing the street was favored by borghesi, and specially by the Florentine community in Rome. Today its modest structures provide one of Rome's elite shopping streets, noted for its antique shops.
The Via Giulia runs in a straight line for a full kilometer, an innovation easily taken for granted today. The via was one aspect of Julius' wide-reaching program for the refurbishment of a resurgent Rome and Papal state. His financial reforms, undertaken from the first year of his pontificate, aimed to free the Papacy from its dependence on the great Roman families such as the Orsini and Colonna, and instead relying on Tuscan bankers, notably to Agostino Chigi, member of a banking family of Siena. A part of Julius' overall plan was the reorganization of the medieval city of Rome, whose unrealized assets were becoming apparent as the renewed city grew in economic importance, recovering from the sleepy backwater it had become during the fourteenth century.
The new street was intended as an artery connecting all the governmental institutions, which were crowded in the single section: the Palazzo della Cancelleria, being completed at that very moment, the papal mint and the projected Palazzo dei Tribunali.
The laying-out of the street was placed in the hands of Donato Bramante, who was in charge of the works at the new Basilica of Saint Peter, taking shape on the other side of the river. Vasari states, "The pope was determined to place in Strada Giulia, which was under Bramante's direction, all the offices and administrative seats of power of Rome in one place, for the convenience of those who had business to do there, having been until then constantly much inconvenienced.
At the same time the new artery linked the river port of the Ripa Grande with the new Via della Lungara, and by the Via Giulia to the Ponte Sisto, in order to bring merchandise securely and conveniently to the heart of the marketing and banking zone.
Work was halted on Bramante's majestic Palazzo dei Tribunali, which was to have assembled under one roof all the judicature of Rome. It remained half-built for a generation, to the regret of artists like Vasari. With this an essential element in Julius' urbanistic project was lost.
The street developed as a line of modest houses with gardens behind them, built for private owners or confraternities, sometimes on speculation, broken by more ambitious palazzi. This is the urban context of the "houses of Raphael", with their ground floor street-front shops.
The grand palazzi turned their backs to Via Giulia. In the 1540s Michelangelo had a plan for the constricted gardens of Palazzo Farnese to be connected by a bridge to the Farnese villa in Trastevere on the right bank, Villa Farnesina. The elegant arch still spanning Via Giulia belongs to this other grand unrealized scheme.
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Karl Johans gate is the main street of the city of Oslo, Norway. The street was named in honor of King Charles III John, who was also King of Sweden as Charles XIV John.[1]
Karl Johans gate is a composite of several older streets that used to be separate thoroughfares. The eastern section was part of Christian IV's original city near the ramparts surrounding the city. When the ramparts were removed to make way for Oslo Cathedral, three separate sections eventually became Østre Gade.kut
The Royal Mile is the name given to a succession of streets forming the main thoroughfare of the Old Town of the city of Edinburgh in Scotland.
Bull St. is one of the major north to south thoroughfares in the historic district of Savannah, GA. Forsyth Park sits at its southern terminus. The walkway seen here extends from the end of Bull St. into the park, ending at the beautiful fountain, which the city fathers planned as a copy of one on the Place de la Concorde, in Paris. I took this picture with a Leica M2, 35mm f/2 Summicron, and Kodak Tri-X.
This is the main thoroughfare of the building at 333 Collins St, Melbourne. It was originally home to the Commercial Bank of Australia and is considered by some to be Melbourne’s most prestigious address.
The Banff townsite covers 3.93 square kilometres (2.5 square miles) and has an elevation of 1,383 metres (4,537 feet) making it the highest town in Canada.
Banff is a resort town in the province of Alberta, located within Banff National Park. The peaks of Mt. Rundle and Mt. Cascade, part of the Rocky Mountains, dominate its skyline. On Banff Avenue, the main thoroughfare, boutiques and restaurants mix with château-style hotels and souvenir shops. The surrounding 6,500 square kilometres of parkland are home to wildlife including elk and grizzly bears.
Enjoy your Tuesday!
The West Capitol Street Historic District is primarily commercial in character, but includes as well a railroad depot, parking garage, and two office buildings. Almost
all buildings are brick. Architectural styles include Queen Anne, Sullivanesque, Colonial Revival, Art Deco, and Spanish Colonial Revival. Party-wall commercial structures line the north side of West Capitol Street for one block and the south side forone-and-one-halfblocks. ThemajorityofbuildingsonthenorthsideofCapitol Street^which is the main, east-west thoroughfare in Jackson, were constructed by 1900
Ocean Drive is a major thoroughfare in the South Beach neighborhood of Miami Beach, on the east or Atlantic coast of the State of Florida, in the United States. In July 2020, Miami Beach Commission passed a resolution that banned cars on Ocean Drive to create a pedestrian thoroughfare and increased sidewalk seating.
A view of the Walter Tips building on the west side of the 700 block of Congress Ave., the main thoroughfare in downtown Austin, four blocks south of the Texas State Capitol Building. The Walter Tips Company was a hardware firm that operated in Austin, Texas, for 127 years. The company sold not only hardware, but also automobile accessories, mill supplies, and sporting goods. They covered a large trade area throughout Texas.
Constructed in 1876-77, the building was designed by noted Austin architect Jasper N. Preston, and cost approximately $30,000 to complete. The architectural style of the first story is Corinthian, while the second and third stories are Venetian Gothic. In its original configuration, the third floor included a room for Masonic Lodge meetings and a 400-seat auditorium for use by the library association.
The Walter Tips Company remained here until 1927 and the building later housed other businesses. In 1978 Franklin Savings Association bought the structure and restored it for use as their home office. The building was renovated in 1993, and has been in use by First Citizens Bank since 2002. The Tips Building is a City of Austin Landmark and a contributing building to the Congress Avenue Historic District listed in 1978 on the National Register of Historic Places.
Austin is the capital of the State of Texas, as well as the seat of Travis County. With a population of just over one million residents, Austin is the 10th largest city in the United States. The Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos Metropolitan Area, now with a population of 2.3M, is the fastest growing large metropolitan area in the country having added more than 579,000 residents since 2010.
Sources:
Texas Historical Markers, Walter Tips Building, Retrieved July 9, 2021
Texas Time Travel, Walter Tips Building, Retrieved July 9, 2021
Austin American-Statesman, Walter Tips Building, March 19, 1876. Retrieved July 9, 2021
Bazar-e Vakil, Shiraz, Iran.
Shiraz’s ancient trading district is comprised of several bazaars dating from different periods. The finest and most famous is the Bazar-e Vakil, a cruciform structure commissioned by Karim Khan as part of his plan to make Shiraz into a great trading centre. The wide vaulted brick avenues are masterpieces of Zand architecture, with the design ensuring the interior remains cool in summer and warm in winter. Today, it’s home to almost 200 stores selling carpets, handicrafts, spices and clothes and is one of the most atmospheric bazaars in Iran, especially in the early evening when it is fantastically photogenic. As usual, it’s best explored by wandering without concern for time or direction, soaking up the atmosphere in the maze of lanes leading off the main thoroughfares.
Norwegian National Road 9 is often called the Setesdal Road and it is the main thoroughfare through the Setesdalen valley.
It runs from the city of Kristiansand in the southern coast of Norway, through the Torridal and Setesdal valleys in Vest-Agder and Aust-Agder counties to Haukeligrend in Telemark county in the north where it meets the European route E134 highway.
Lucky to be back in the university city of Oxford again. I revisited a few old haunts (no pun intended) and here we have Brasenose Lane. This thoroughfare dates back to medieval times and is simply an amazing place to visit if you get the chance. It genuinely is like stepping back in time. I've photographed here before but have changed the view a touch.
I've gone for my now familiar silhouette work. We all have our favourite method of composition right?
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I was out the house just after sunrise, knowing that because it was a holiday, traffic would be light...I didn't expect it to be non-existant.....it was over 5 minutes before I saw another car, and this is one of the busiest thoroughfares in the city!
Plants grow so fast in a rain forest that you need to be ready to share the road at any time. Here a Sitka Spruce encroaches on the thoroughfare. However, I'd bet money that the path builders deviated around the tree, making space for the tree to continue its journey toward the light. Just my opinion.
Happy Slider's Sunday everyone.
Quinault WA
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Discovered down behind some other very humble houses off of a main thoroughfare. Unclear if anyone actually still in existence. Signs of efforts to create a patchwork life.
100 Years Old. Picturedrome, 286 Kensington, Liverpool 7. 2010 photo.
Opened 26 December 1910
This was built on the site of Lindley's Kensington Brewery which dated from at least the 1840s, and closed about 1905.
(The boundary wall on the right of the building must date from this period).
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In 1909 at the height of the Roller Skating craze, a rink was proposed to be built on the site, and in September it was stated that "The Old Brewery site being laid out as a Roller Rink. Work not yet complete. Application (for approval of plans) withdrawn." The withdrawing of the application tells us that the scheme had been abandoned, and the skating rink never opened. The craze had quickly come and gone.
Instead, on 11 August 1910 a plan was submitted of a "New Cinematograph Hall".
The argument surrounding Liverpool's first purpose-built cinema has to be raised again. It has been stated that the Bedford Hall in Walton opened on Boxing Day, 1908, exactly two years before the Kensington Picturedrome. This is definitely wrong, and I hope to prove that both cinemas opened in December 1910.
(it's since been discovered that J. F. Wood - the original owner - hoped to open it on Boxing Day, 1910.)
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Regarding the Bedford, the Wood family (who were the original owners), Frank Unwin, Derek Whale, and other local historians have all said that it opened in 1910, but the actual date remained hard to prove, although Derek Whale said it was on Boxing Day. (The Kensington certainly opened on Boxing Day [in 1910], and I believe that this is where the confusion over the opening date of the Bedford originates.)
The Cinematograph Act, which came into force on 1 January 1910, dictated, among other things, that the projection equipment should be in a fireproof room, outside the auditorium. This prompted the building of purpose-built cinemas. Nearly all cinemas before 1910 were conversions of existing buildings.
The first purpose-built cinema anywhere near Liverpool was the Southport Picturedrome, on Lord Street. It opened on 9 May 1910 (since demolished). The second didn't open until 17 December 1910, and that was the Widnes Picturedrome (the basic shell survives, but the front has been demolished). Campbell & Fairhurst, the Southport firm of architects designed the above two cinemas, as well as the Kensington, and at least another ten cinemas to be built on Merseyside before the First World War. The Kensington Picturedrome was built by L.Marr & Son.
The plan of the Kensington Picturedrome was submitted on 11 August 1910 and was plan number 29705. The plan of the Bedford was number 29676, and was submitted no earlier than late July 1910.
The Cinematograph Act of 1910 was also responsible for the introduction of Cinematograph Licenses, and premises wanting to show films could not do so without being issued with a license. The licence for the Kensington was granted on 23 December 1910, and the cinema opened, by invitation only, on Saturday, the 24th, and to the public on Monday, the 26th. (There was no Sunday opening for cinemas in those days, not that it would have opened on Christmas Day). Unfortunately the opening of the Bedford was neither advertised, nor reported on in the local press, but the licence was issued on December 24th. With Boxing Day being a favourite time of year for places of public amusement to be opened, it seems very likely that the Bedford did indeed open on that day, but in 1910, certainly not in 1908. If further proof is needed, Kelly's Directory of Liverpool for 1911, published at the end of 1910, states in its entry for Bedford Road: "site for new Picture Theatre", and the Bedford's first Cinematograph Licence wasn't issued until 24 December 1910.
The company formed to operate the Kensington Picturedrome was called The Liverpool Picturedrome Ltd, and the Licensee was Rex Dooley. There were seats for 860, and they were all on one level. There were nine exits. The Liverpool Picturedrome Ltd lasted until the cinema closed in 1958.
The arrival of the new cinema was the subject of the following article which appeared in the "Liverpool Daily Post & Mercury" dated Monday, 26 December 1910:
"The Picturedrome, Kensington."
"Kensington folks desiring a couple of hours enjoyment of a really first-class "moving-picture" show need not henceforth depart from their own neighbourhood, for the elegant Picturedrome, which has been erected in Kensington near the junction of that thoroughfare with Holt Road, bids fair to become one of the most popular halls devoted to this class of entertainment in Liverpool and district. Structurally the building leaves nothing to be desired, the architects Messrs. Campbell and Fairhurst, of Southport, having succeeded most admirably in designing a really comfortable hall. The appointments are luxurious, the ventilation perfect, and the scheme of decoration most pleasing. The management proposes to show the best class of pictures only, whilst the prices of admission to the three performances to be given at 3, 7 and 9 o'clock will be the moderate prices which obtain elsewhere. An entire change of pictures will be made twice each week - on Mondays and Thursdays. On Saturday last a large number of people attended the hall at the special invitation of the proprietors, and a capital programme was sustained. In addition to a number of excellent story films, several current events were pictured on the screen, these including scenes at the Hulton Colliery after the terrible explosion, and views of the funeral of the brave London police officers who were shot. Solos and duets were given by Miss Wilmot and Mr W.H. Atkinson. The hall will be opened to the public today."
Films were far from being a novelty in the area as the Sun Hall - almost opposite - had shown occasional films as far back as June 1905. On 22 October 1907 "Cinematograph Entertainments (were) sanctioned for 12 months" by the Licensing Committee. This permission was repeated on 20 October 1908 and again on 19 October 1909. (Note that even though Cinematograph Licenses didn't exist before 1910, premises showing films still needed official permission to operate, and a music license to cover the piano or orchestra. The fact that the Bedford doesn't feature in any of the Licensing Records before 1910 is yet further proof that it didn't then exist.) On 25 October 1910, the Sun Hall was due to make an application for a Cinematograph licence, but didn't do so, and as far as can be ascertained films were never again shown there.
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In 1918 a new waiting room was built for the Kensington Picturedrome. This was situated at the left side of the rear of the building, and was demolished in 1988.
In September 1921 the premises were enlarged by building an extension at the rear with a new stage area, (and consequently a new screen). The seating capacity was subsequently increased to 1,100, and the architects in charge of the alterations were the Liverpool firm of Gray & Evans.
Mr Dovenor was a director by March 1922.
By 1929 the Kensington was part of the North Western circuit of cinemas, and had dropped the old-fashioned sounding "Picturedrome" part of its name. It was then called the Kensington Cinema. It remained part of the North Western circuit for the rest of its days.
British Thomson-Houston talkie equipment was installed in April/May 1930 under the supervision of Gray & Evans.
In 1935 the seating capacity was 1,050.
The Kensington closed on 6 December 1958 with (local boy) Frankie Vaughan in "Wonderful Things" plus "Johnny Bravo".
Television was claimed to be the major cause of closures of cinemas in the late 1950s, and, as if to rub salt in the wound, workmen moved into the former cinema in January 1959 to convert it into offices and stores for Stuart & Dorfman, a television rental firm! The foyer was then used for Offices and Rentals, and Hire Purchase accounts. The auditorium was partitioned off to form Maintenance Workshops and a store. 30 Males and 15 Females were to be employed, and the building was renamed (shades of the past) Teledrome. Stuart & Dorfman seem to have left the premises in 1970.
The building remained unused until Seldons took it over about 1977 and converted it into an Amusement Arcade and Bingo Hall. While the work was going on the original prices from 1910 (3d, 6d & 1/-) could be seen - carved in stone - over the entrance.
During the summer of 1980, the building had a £100,000 facelift. It was then called Seldon's Arcadia. A sign reading "The World in Motion" was uncovered above the main arched entrance. This slogan can be seen on an early photograph of the Southport Picturedrome, as well as some other early cinemas, and may well indicate a circuit of early cinemas (it's since been discovered that this was the Weisker Circuit). It is hoped that the sign was left where it was. The area in question was covered over again.
By 1988 a Snooker Club was operating in the building as well as Seldons and that phase lasted until 1995, at least.
About 1997 the cladding which for years (since 1980?) had covered the upper part of the facade was removed, revealing once again the first floor windows. The building was then renamed the Kensington Palace.
Wetherspoons have since converted the building into one of their pubs. *
The facade is one of only about four from the first year of purpose-built cinemas to survive in its original condition in the UK. Two others being the Picture House in Birmingham (now the entrance to the Piccadilly Arcade), and the Duke of Yorks in Brighton, and possibly the Electric Theatre in Portobello Road, London (although it's been said that that's been altered at some stage).
Unfortunately, nothing remains of the interior of the Kensington Picturedrome's auditorium.
Original research by Philip G Mayer.
* Edit: 2021.
Congratulations if you've read this far.
Wetherspoons has left the building.
I still don't believe that over 66,000 pepole have viewd this photo.
Edit: January 2024.
80,000+ 'Views', but more 'faves'.
Zephaniah 3:6 “I have destroyed nations—their fortifications are deserted. I have turned their main thoroughfares into wastelands where no one will travel. Their cities are desolate; as a result, not one man remains—no, not even a single resident.”
'Fountain Elms' is a fine house on Utica's Genesee Street, a major thoroughfare. Built for Helen and James Williams in 1852 by architect William Woollett it is currently a museum space for the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute. Because the Williams planned to make the house a museum space, the interiors (created in a much higher style than the house featured originally) and exterior are well preserved and feature an exceptional collection of mid-19th century furniture and artwork.
'Fountain Elms' is a fine house on Utica's Genesee Street, a major thoroughfare. Built for Helen and James Williams in 1852 by architect William Woollett it is currently a museum space for the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute. Because the Williams planned to make the house a museum space, the interiors (created in a much higher style than the house featured originally) and exterior are well preserved and feature an exceptional collection of mid-19th century furniture and artwork.
Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Banff is a resort town in the province of Alberta, within Banff National Park. The peaks of Mt. Rundle and Mt. Cascade, part of the Rocky Mountains, dominate its skyline. On Banff Avenue, the main thoroughfare, boutiques and restaurants mix with château-style hotels and souvenir shops.
This fairly large size image of Santa has been kept at a vantage point at public thoroughfare in Police Bazaar, Shillong(the capital of Meghalaya) for all to admire and imbibe the spirit of Christmas.
Once again, Merry Christmas and A Very Happy New Year, friends
Here's another view of the stone ruin of a colonial building. It would date from no later than the 1850s I'd imagine. The chances of it being restored are sadly remote. It is on the Blessington Road (not a major thoroughfare) in the little hamlet of Burns Creek. And it would take lots of money to restore it to some semblance of former glory.
Market Street is a major 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 Portola Drive in the Twin Peaks neighborhood. Beyond this point, the roadway continues 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.
...the rest of the Restwell has been gone for more than a decade, but the sign goes on. Originally the Restwell Motor Court was a going concern on old Highway 40 ( now it's named just 4th Street, in Reno ) during the 1930's to the 1950's. Highway 40 was the major East-West thoroughfare in Nevada, as part of the Lincoln Highway system that crossed the US...only a few of the buildings that did business in Reno on hwy 40 in the 50's are still with us...Interstate 80 took away all the travelers as well as their dollars.
It breaks from conventional wisdom to consider a bustling city thoroughfare to be a domain for freight diesel locomotives. A 184-ton hunk of steel seems out of place rolling mere feet from the front porch steps of dwellings and mere inches from the front bumper of your automobile, obeying traffic signals and sharing the pavement with confused drivers just trying to make their way across town. But such an atypical situation has been a typical facet of life in Michigan City, IN, since 1908, when the Chicago, South Shore, and South Bend interurban railroad claimed its stake smack-dab in the middle of downtown streets. Michigan City grew with the railroad and they have coexisted quite literally through a shared corridor stretching 1.8 miles down 10th and 11th Streets for the past 114 years. The CSS&SB and its successor NICTD have modernized their transit network over the course of time and freight business for contract operator Chicago South Shore has blossomed, but the iconic street running has remained maintained but largely unchanged since its inception. The buried flangeways in 10th and 11th have endured long after most of their comparable street running tracks across the nation--a signature staple of interurban railroading--were ripped up in the early years of the previous century.
On February 6, 2022, CSS's pair of SD38-2s made a late afternoon departure from the Carroll Street shops and headed west through the streets of Michigan City, sending the echoes of horn blasts reverberating off residential structures as motorists hugged the curbs tightly for cover. A normal Saturday scene perhaps, save for the fact that this occasion was anything but normal, as come Monday the street would be closed, vehicular traffic detoured onto parallel routes, and interurban traffic temporarily suspended through Michigan City in favor of busses. The culprit: capacity improvements and an emphasis on public safety under the guise of a $500 million double-track project. Freight traffic will continue mostly-nocturnal operations as construction phasing plays out over the coming weeks, but 11th Street's nostalgia will be permanently lost as work commences to reconfigure the corridor to host separated two main tracks and one-way road through downtown Michigan City. Safety and efficiency will come undoubtedly, as will the comfort and ease for residents, commuters, and motorists who use this street regularly, but the cost will come at the expense of a historical landmark that harkens back to traditions of a forgotten era in railroading history.
Remarkably, the South Shore Line has defied the odds and greatly outlasted its electric railroad counterparts that essentially all evaporated well over a half-century ago. But for it to continue to thrive as a viable and competitive transit option built for the 21st Century, its signature attraction at the heart of Michigan City must be sacrificed. So while "The Last Interurban" prepares to write the next chapter in its lasting history, we watch as these two SD38s rumble down unadulterated 11th Street for one of the final times and take with them the memories of 114 years into the setting sun.
In the center of Mill Street, now a pedestrian thoroughfare as the city has installed permanent barriers as both ends is the Nevada County Bank that was opened by in 1917 and as I had indicated in an earlier posting has now been repurposed into a retail space. Beautifully lit to model it lovely columns and dome. - [x] #developportdev @gothamtomato @developphotonewsletter @omsystem.cameras #excellent_america #omsystem @bheventspace @bhphoto @adorama @tamracphoto @tiffencompany #usaprimeshot #tamractales @kehcamera @mpbcom @visitgrassvalley @visitcalifornia @nevadacountyca #omd #microfourthirds #micro43
The small Sierra town of Downieville is one of my favorite local spots for shooting photos. There seems to be an unlimited amount of ways one can see the various scenes within the town. I guess that's to be expected in a sleepy town where two rivers meet.
Here, Highway 49 crosses the Downie River via the Jersey Bridge. The bridge is a one lane thoroughfare and adds a lot of charm to this old gold rush era town. Imagine, a town sleepy enough that an interstate highway can reduce to one lane without any traffic complications. That's my kinda place.
Downieville CA
George Street is the central thoroughfare of the First New Town of Edinburgh, planned in the 18th century by James Craig
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The street takes its name from King George III and connects St Andrew Square in the east with Charlotte Square in the west. It is located on the north side of the Old Town of Edinburgh, to the north of the Princes Street and to the south of Queen Street, running straight along the high point of a ridge.
Christianshavns Kanal (Christianshavn Canal) in the Christianshavn neighbourhood of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Running northeast-southwest, it bisects the neighbourhood along its length. To the north it connects to Trangraven, the canal which separates Christianshavn from Holmen; to the south it makes an angular break and empties in the main harbour a little north of the Langebro bridge. At the middle, Christianshavns Kanal is crossed by Børnehusbroen.
This bridge is part of Torvegade, the main thoroughfare of Christianshavn, connecting the city centre across Knippelsbro to the northwest to Amager the southeast. The only other bridge traversing the canal is Snorrebroen, located further north.
Christianshavns Kanal is noted for its bustling sailing community with numerous house- and sailboats, particularly in the northern half of the canal.
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La Paz is built in a canyon created by the Choqueyapu River (now mostly built over), which runs northwest to southeast. The city's main thoroughfare, which roughly follows the river, changes names over its length, but the central tree-lined section running through the downtown core is called the Prado.
The geography of La Paz (in particular the altitude) is marked by social differences. The more affluent residents live in the lower, central areas of the city southwest of the Prado. Many middle-class residents live in high-rise condos near the center. Lower-income residents live in makeshift brick houses in the surrounding hills.
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O Arco do Triunfo (francês: Arc de Triomphe) é um monumento, localizado na cidade de Paris, construído em comemoração às vitórias militares do Napoleão Bonaparte, o qual ordenou a sua construção em 1806. Inaugurado em 1836, a monumental obra detém, gravados, os nomes de 128 batalhas e 558 generais. Em sua base, situa-se o Túmulo do soldado desconhecido (1920). O arco localiza-se na praça Charles de Gaulle, no encontro das avenidas Charles de Gaulle e Champs-Élysées. Nas extremidades das avenidas encontram-se a Praça da Concórdia e na outra La Defense.
The Arc de Triomphe is the linchpin of the Axe historique (historic axis) – a sequence of monuments and grand thoroughfares on a route which runs from the courtyard of the Louvre to the Grande Arche de la Défense. The monument was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806 and its iconographic program pitted heroically nude French youths against bearded Germanic warriors in chain mail. It set the tone for public monuments, with triumphant patriotic messages.
The monument stands 50 metres (164 ft) in height, 45 m (148 ft) wide and 22 m (72 ft) deep. The large vault is 29.19 m (95.8 ft) high and 14.62 m (48.0 ft) wide. The small vault is 18.68 m (61.3 ft) high and 8.44 m (27.7 ft) wide. Its design was inspired by the Roman Arch of Titus. The Arc de Triomphe is built on such a large scale that, three weeks after the Paris victory parade in 1919 (marking the end of hostilities in World War I), Charles Godefroy flew his Nieuport biplane through it, with the event captured on newsreel.
It was the tallest triumphal arch in existence until the completion of the Monumento a la Revolución in Mexico City in 1938, which is 67 metres (220 ft) high. The Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang, completed in 1982, is modelled on the Arc de Triomphe and is slightly taller at 60 m (197 ft).
The Royal Mile is the name given to a succession of streets forming the main thoroughfare of the Old Town of the city of Edinburgh in Scotland.
Lovely Renaissance town in the mountains
Feltre is a good example of a Renaissance city from the 16th century. Emperor Maximilian completely destroyed the city in 1510 with his troops. The immediate repair by the Venetians in the style of that time still allows a good insight into the structures of a real renaissance city.
Attractions in Feltre
A long main street runs through the historic city of Feltre up a hill. Many beautiful buildings with faded frescoes line the main thoroughfare and open onto the Piazza Maggiore in an almost stage-like space – without doubt one of the highlights of Feltre. There are still statues of Venetian lion and some famous citizens in the middle of the square. Just next to the Piazza Maggiore is the Palazzo della Ragione, the former seat of the Venetian city government, with its beautiful portico and the church of San Rocco. The great hall of the Palazzo from the 17th century was rebuilt as the Teatro de la Sena and has been the location of many brilliant performances. Diagonally across the square tower are the remains of the former fortress of Feltre, which was destroyed in the 16th century. Other attractions in Feltre are the Cathedral of San Pietro at the foot of the hill, the Museo Civico in the Via Luzzo and the Galleria d’Arte Moderna “Carlo Rizzarda” in the Via Paradiso, which houses among exhibits a fine collection of forged iron art by Count Rizzarda. The Sanctuary of Santi Vittore e Corona, an old monastery with a beautiful cloister and a medieval church, can be found a few miles southeast of the town. From the monastery you can enjoy a beautiful view over the valley. The Lago del Corlo west of Feltre is a popular holiday destination for campers and an idyllic place to sleep amongst the mountains.