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(5 years and 2864 days ago)

La Giralda, one of the most famous landmarks of Seville, in the evening light (5 years and 2880 days ago)

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light, evening, night, belltower, Andalusia

friiskiwi says:

Looks beautiful, but this size never dose the photos justice, Love to see it in a Higher Resolution. what we see here has been downsized from your original image. You need to tick Also save full resolution when uploading.
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No need to upload again, unless it was a very small image. Your image doesn't need to be enormous, anything between 2.5mg and 3.5mg is plenty big enough.
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author says:

Thank you for your comment! Hi-res image is now available

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friiskiwi says:

Great, wonderful details. Spain has some wonderful architecture

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author says:

It definitely has. In a city like Seville you can really smell the ancient Moorish culture!

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FallingHorse says:

Far better with some colour in the sky instead of all that black

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author says:

Thank you FallingHorse! I believe details in the sky add a lot to this kind of photography!

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after other parts of Asia and then almost all of Spain.
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the twelfth century, the looming threat of Barbarossa, Genoa decided to strengthen the walls and doors. Both the walls, called Barbarossa, and Medieval Gates were built around 1155. Manufacturers, the only news we have is in a Latin inscription at the Port of St. Faith (or Cow), "Ego et Magister Iohannes Guiscardus Bonus Cortese et Iohannes De Castro fecimus hoc opus". Medieval Gates quickly became a symbol of Genoa and its spirit of independence. On the two towers that make up the port were placed two plaques. One of them is a clear and solemn warning to those who want to invade the city: "In the name of Almighty God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Amen. They are equipped with men, surrounded by walls admirable, I reject my value with enemy weapons. If you can bring peace to touch this door, you will have to withdraw if you are looking sad and won the war. South and West, North East and I know the endless assaults, Genoa, I passed. "
The Gate - 5 meters wide and nine feet high - was closed with wooden shutters that turned on two iron hinges. The arch - one of the oldest examples of Gothic arch in Genoa - is equipped with shelves, which is a band profile, protruding and concave, which is located between the base and the stems of the columns and is surmounted by a ring. The door is decorated with a thin octagonal column whose capital, Corinthian, revolves around the arch. The main body of the door is decorated on top by a band of small arches, and smaller than those raised on the outside. The port has four marble capitals: two outward and two inward of the city. The two towers, with a rectangular base side to the city and outside the semi-circular boundary walls are constructed of cut stone with the tip worked great and profiled in the corners with a chisel; are not parallel, but converge one o'clock toward each other on the outside line, and are larger than the medieval towers which we know (31 meters from ground level at the point of the passage of the Port).
The building located between the two towers and above the opening of the port was occupied by the Executioner, who exercised in Genoa until 1809 with a guillotine housed inside the premises and found during restoration. Usually, up to 1797, the heads of those executed were hung on the arch of the gate in iron cages. And 'here has certainly exercised his art Monsieur Samson, the famous French Executioner guillotined for having - in 1793 - Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette.
The door - just as the towers and walls - underwent several renovations and restorations. The last renovation in 1988 (5 years and 2886 days ago)

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defensive, tower

friiskiwi says:

a corner stone, is a stone, with details about when the building was erected and by whom.

Can we possibly have a translation of your stone.

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Teebone100 says:

Excellent, author

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patty says:

Interesting image

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(5 years and 2893 days ago)

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The, church, tower

Moderator says:

The smaller "towers" appear to be pyramids.

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friiskiwi says:

A pyramid (from Greek: "πυραμίς" – pyramis[1]) is a structure whose outer surfaces are triangular and converge at a single point. The base of a pyramid can be trilateral, quadrilateral, or any polygon shape, meaning that a pyramid has at least three triangular surfaces (at least four faces including the base). The square pyramid, with square base and four triangular outer surfaces, is a common version.

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Teebone100 says:

I like it! it's different

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(5 years and 2920 days ago)

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Tower, bridge

MossyB says:

Wonderful star effect of the lights, and good clarity of the water - not blurred into a "smudge." Nice job.

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friiskiwi says:

Great shot

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