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This beautiful monument in front of the library at Yale celebrates women. To read more, see: visitorcenter.yale.edu/book/womens-table
In a photographic statement of often strained town-gown relations, barbed, razor wire fences have been erected to separate a Yale University frat house from a vibrant area in the center of downtown New Haven. Such fences, often found around prisons, do not exist elsewhere in this area.
This photo has been in Explore on April 7, 2023. Highest position = #484. This is my 194th photo in Explore.
You found the lost city down there, didn't you?
Huayna Picchu's view of the old city was probably one of the most exciting things I have witnessed on this whole trip.
The peak of Huayna Picchu is 2,693 metres (8,835 ft) above sea level, or about 260 metres (850 ft) higher than Machu Picchu.
Other smaller terraces are found in the lower part of Machu Picchu, all around the city. Its function was not agricultural, but to serve as retaining walls.
Or about 260 meters (850 ft) higher than Machu Picchu.
But there was no need for buildings to tell us that: just look down.
There, hundreds of meters below, the lost city of Machu Picchu spread out over the mountains. Small, but majestic. Beautiful in all its details, from the terraces to the palace, from the temples to the industrial area.
The area built in Machu Picchu is 530 meters long by 200 meters wide and includes at least 172 enclosures. The complex is clearly divided into two large zones: the agricultural zone, formed by sets of cultivated terraces, which lies to the south; and the urban zone, which is where its occupants lived and where the main civil and religious activities were developed. The two zones are separated by a wall, a moat and a staircase, elements that run parallel by the face east of the mountain.
The city is a complex of more than 200 dwellings, most of them are houses, some of them interesting temples. You will also see caves, a park, agricultural terraces, waterways, fountains, a quarry (where the building materials were extracted), prison, cemetery, squares, warehouses, tracks, bridges, gates, stairs, etc.
The beautiful spiral staircase inside the Yale Center for British Art. Not only is the art outstanding, the building is a visual feast.
As the legs began to complain and the body began to beg for water (a priceless asset in a climb with no selling point), I came across Huayna Picchu.
From where I could see tiny people in the background (260 meters higher), appearing and disappearing under the steep woods.
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Huayna Picchu, Quechua: Wayna Pikchu, is a mountain in Peru around which the Urubamba River bends. It is located in the Cusco Region, Urubamba Province, Machupicchu District. It rises over Machu Picchu, the so-called lost city of the Incas. The Incas built a trail up the side of the Huayna Picchu and built temples and terraces on its top. The peak of Huayna Picchu is 2,693 metres (8,835 ft) above sea level, or about 260 metres (850 ft) higher than Machu Picchu.
According to local guides, the top of the mountain was the residence for the high priest and the local virgins. Every morning before sunrise, the high priest with a small group would walk to Machu Picchu to signal the coming of the new day. The Temple of the Moon, one of the three major temples in the Machu Picchu area, is nestled on the side of the mountain and is situated at an elevation lower than Machu Picchu. Adjacent to the Temple of the Moon is the Great Cavern, another sacred temple with fine masonry. The other major local temples in Machu Picchu are the Temple of the Condor, Temple of Three Windows, Principal Temple, "Unfinished Temple", and the Temple of the Sun, also called the Torreon.
Its name is Hispanicized, possibly from the Quechua, alternative spelling Wayna Pikchu; wayna young, young man, pikchu pyramid, mountain or prominence with a broad base which ends in sharp peaks, "young peak".
Yale University Art Gallery
First sculpture by artist David Smith "Bec-Dida Day" named for the artist's daughters Rebecca and Candida, inspired by a birthday party.
Steel
Background sculpture by artist Alexander Calder "Gallows and Lollipops
Painted Steel
Boundary of the Agricultural Zone with the Urban Zone.
After the stairs there is an Inca Wall, the district of popular residences and warehouses and just below, to the right (without connection) the Temple of the Sun, Inca mausoleum and the Princess Room.
In the background, in the middle, the Main Square.
The day could not make up its mind what it wanted to be. Here it wanted to be a dreary grey old day complementing the illusion I was somewhere in Oxbridge.
These friends did not take a liking to Tom and me as we walked past them while they were tied-up outside Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
The dreaming spires of Yale University taken from a parking lot on Broadway. Harkness tower is in the background, with Saybrook College (which distinguishes itself by the cheer, "Say what?, Saybrook!"), in the foreground.
Branford College encompasses Harkness tower, one of Yale's most notable landmarks. The tower was finished in 1921 and contains the Yale Memorial Carillon, a carillon of 54 bells. It was playing while we were walking around the Old Campus. It was lovely, but playing something rather unlikely such as an arrangement of English pop songs from the 80s (but, alas, I forget exactly what).
Two different days.
On the first day, I climbed Machu Picchu (Old Peak) and on the second day Huayna Picchu (New Peak).
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Inca Trail (first half of the video - first day).
Intipunku - The Gate of the Sun controlled the access to the Inca city and offers a 180ยบ view of Machu Picchu.
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Huayna Picchu (second halt of the video - second day).
And, in search of the most perfect view, I decided to climb - of course - the highest mountain Huayna Picchu (or Waynapicchu, in Quechua).
The smallest mountain on the left is Huchuypicchu (Quechua "Little New Peak") and the mountain that I climbed on the right is the Waynapicchu (Quechua "New Peak").
Machu Picchu is 'Old Mountain or Peak'.
This building, like many of Yale University's buildings, was constructed in the neo-Gothic architecture style.
We left Old Campus to walk along Elm Street, which brought us to Calhoun college, another of the 12 residential colleges. Calhoun was named after a John Calhoun, a Yale alumnus once considered distinguished enough, despite his being a vigorous defender of slavery, to have a college named after him. Sufficient time has not yet passed alas that Yale has renamed this college, however, in a bold move (that was irony) they did put up a plaque about the issue in 1992.
If you look carefully, not all of that cloud is cloud. The moon had risen.
New Haven is a coastal city located on New Haven Harbor on Long Island Sound in Connecticut and home to Yale University. Print Size 13x19 inches. HTT.
Sterling Chemistry Library www.library.yale.edu/science/library/chemistry.html
Photo taken by Joe Murphy
Nathan Hale, the state hero of Connecticut, was captured and executed by the British for spying during the Revolutionary War. He was remarkably eloquent before being hung, famously saying "I only regret that I have but one life to give my country."
An idealized bronze statue commissioned from Bela Lyon Pratt in 1913 stands in front of Connecticut Hall, where he lived when he was a student at Yale.
The chairs for Monday's graduation at Yale University have been set-up for the big day. As always, there is a row of chairs arranged behind the statue of Theodore Dwight Woolsay.