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DMac wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 6:18 pm Mighty darn close, you're only about 100 miles off.
Kitzingen.

The town's main landmark is the Leaning Tower, built during the 13th century. It is distinctive for its crooked roof. According to town legend, the tower was being built during a drought, and workers used wine instead of water to make the mortar causing the top of the tower to lean. Today the tower holds a carnival (Fasching) museum.

I remembered your dad being in Army and photo looked like a smaller town.

Was a very good guess!
Played Pee Wee League football (not soccer) for the Kitzingen Little Saints.
Good stuff.

ardilla secreta wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 4:55 pm Getting back on topic.

Name this structure and location.
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Not Italy or Greece. The link is Thomas Jefferson.

So you're saying I was thousands of miles off.
Wow, that's an old picture. Was looking at the cars, all looked foreign to me.
https://www.viator.com/Washington-DC-at ... cc3f1596ea

DMac wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 12:48 pm So you're saying I was thousands of miles off.
Wow, that's an old picture. Was looking at the cars, all looked foreign to me.
https://www.viator.com/Washington-DC-at ... cc3f1596ea

It is in Europe. Thomas Jefferson is the hint.

Back to my original post then, am clueless.
Gotta go with France with the Jefferson hint
although I'm not getting a Paris/France feel
from that picture. The red car might be a
Renault though.

DMac wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 5:35 pm Back to my original post then, am clueless.
Gotta go with France with the Jefferson hint
although I'm not getting a Paris/France feel
from that picture. The red car might be a
Renault though.

MDlaxfan76 should know but he’s too busy.

I'll unbusy him.

ardilla secreta wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 8:25 pm

DMac wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 5:35 pm Back to my original post then, am clueless.
Gotta go with France with the Jefferson hint
although I'm not getting a Paris/France feel
from that picture. The red car might be a
Renault though.

MDlaxfan76 should know but he’s too busy.

I think it's Maison carrée in Nimes, which was Jefferson's inspiration for the rotunda at UVA and the Virginia State Capitol building. Ancient Roman temple.

I don't see the tower in the background of the picture, but that could be an angle...otherwise sure looks close. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_carrée

Am up at Squam, Saturday evening with old pals from Gilman and Dartmouth, steamers, lobsters, south sides from Baltimore, blueberry pie.

View...

another view

Just verified from a trip to Nimes via Google Maps and Street view - it is Maison Carree, and the tower in the background is Eglise Saint-Paul a couple of blocks away...

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 9:19 am

ardilla secreta wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 8:25 pm

DMac wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 5:35 pm Back to my original post then, am clueless.
Gotta go with France with the Jefferson hint
although I'm not getting a Paris/France feel
from that picture. The red car might be a
Renault though.

MDlaxfan76 should know but he’s too busy.

I think it's Maison carrée in Nimes, which was Jefferson's inspiration for the rotunda at UVA and the Virginia State Capitol building. Ancient Roman temple.

I don't see the tower in the background of the picture, but that could be an angle...otherwise sure looks close. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_carrée

Am up at Squam, Saturday evening with old pals from Gilman and Dartmouth, steamers, lobsters, south sides from Baltimore, blueberry pie.

View...

Good job on Maison carrée in Nimes. It was not only the inspiration for Jefferson’s design of the Virginia State capitol, he spent a great deal of time sitting across from it in admiration while he was Minister to France. Nimes is loaded with ancient Roman structures.

Jefferson writes to a friend in 1787, confessing that he is smitten. He spends long hours gazing at…a building. “Here I am, Madam, gazing whole hours at the Maison Carrée, like a lover at his mistress.”

I was there too a few years ago snapping that photo. After reading Passions: The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson, I was inspired to replicate part of his journey. I started in Lyon following the Rhône by car to Tain l’Hermitage and the vineyards of the northern Rhône onwards to the south to Chateauneuf du Pape, Avignon and Nimes. Then on to Aix-en-Provence where he sought treatment at a spa for an injured wrist, then to Nice, Genoa, Asti, Alba and Torino as he did, before taking the tunnel through the Alps back to Lyon. It was a fantastic trip.

Sounds like a fantastic trip indeed, a s.

How 'bout this one, too easy?

The little mermaid or Marjorie Taylor Greene

Yup, she looks pretty good for her age.
https://mermaidsofearth.com/mermaid-sta ... openhagen/

How 'bout this place, this shot is a fairly popular shot for this place.

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 9:19 am
I think it's Maison carrée in Nimes, which was Jefferson's inspiration for the rotunda at UVA and the Virginia State Capitol building. Ancient Roman temple.

Rotunda inspiration was the Pantheon. If you had done the right thing and followed your old man to C'ville you would know these important things....

HooDat wrote: ↑Tue Aug 23, 2022 11:14 am

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 9:19 am
I think it's Maison carrée in Nimes, which was Jefferson's inspiration for the rotunda at UVA and the Virginia State Capitol building. Ancient Roman temple.

Rotunda inspiration was the Pantheon. If you had done the right thing and followed your old man to C'ville you would know these important things....

You are correct, as usual!

DMac wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 2:35 pm Yup, she looks pretty good for her age.
https://mermaidsofearth.com/mermaid-sta ... openhagen/

How 'bout this place, this shot is a fairly popular shot for this place.

Some European port. Other than that, no idea

Bergen, Norway an incredibly gorgeous spot in the world.
The fjords are staggeringly rugged and breathtaking, quite a sight.
This is a similar shot, same place, have seen this shot several times before.

Oh. A good friend of mine is married to a woman whose parents were immigrants from Bergen. Still plenty of family there and goes back periodically. Have heard so much good about it.