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Persian Gulf area?
Northern_Brewer
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No, but a lot warmer
Dubai
Northern_Brewer
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South Africa is cool but at least it's the right hemisphere, Dubai was in the Gulf last time I looked so covered by the same no.
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Indonesia?
The steeple and what I think is a minaret in the background, as well as the palm trees, make me think of SEA now.
The steeple and what I think is a minaret in the background, as well as the palm trees, make me think of SEA now.
New Zealand
Northern_Brewer
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Both very, very cold.
There's certainly mosques and two flavours of Christianity in there.
There's certainly mosques and two flavours of Christianity in there.
Mumbai, India
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Madagascar
Zanzibar
Northern_Brewer
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All of India is well north of the equator - and tends not to be the biggest fan of Islam.... Madagascar is getting a bit warmer, but...
Now we're hot. Town?
Stone Town
Pemba?
Northern_Brewer
British - apparently some US company stole my name
It feels a bit harsh as Bruce did the hard work, but @govner1 is correct, it's the World Heritage Site of Stone Town - the old bit of Zanzibar City. Surprisingly most of the historic bits are not that old, mostly dating to the end of the 19th century apart from the original 17th-century Omani fort. Friday marked the 60th anniversary of the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar to form Tanzania.
@govner1 is up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Town
@govner1 is up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Town
This should be easier-
I am I Don Quixote, the Lord of La Mancha…
Windmills of Consuegra, Don Quixote route, Toledo province, Castilla-La Mancha (New Castile) region
Duncan brown made an excellent reference but, Cheshire Cat has it exactly!
Back to bridges, name the location and river.
Royal Albert bridge across the Tamar River in Cornwall, England
Yes that was quick you’re on.
Change of scenery-
Northern_Brewer
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Ávila is a town in Spain, but in Roman times it was known as Abila or Abela according to Wikipedia, so do we have something like the shrine a few goes back, a "fake" classical ruin that is much more recent than Roman times?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ávila#History
It also has significance as town that was conquered and then fortified as the border against the Arabs by Raymond of Burgundy, ancestor of Spanish royalty.
The we have the column with ...on plu...
That sounds like non plus, most famously used as non plus ultra - nothing more beyond, which was supposedly inscribed on the Pillars of Hercules that marked the western end of the classical world - the Strait of Gibraltar. Of course after 1492 Spain went beyond Gibraltar and plus ultra became the motto of their monarchy and now of Spain itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus_ultra
So this feels like some kind of post-1492 representation by Spanish royalty of their historical successes in Spain and across the Atlantic?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ávila#History
It also has significance as town that was conquered and then fortified as the border against the Arabs by Raymond of Burgundy, ancestor of Spanish royalty.
The we have the column with ...on plu...
That sounds like non plus, most famously used as non plus ultra - nothing more beyond, which was supposedly inscribed on the Pillars of Hercules that marked the western end of the classical world - the Strait of Gibraltar. Of course after 1492 Spain went beyond Gibraltar and plus ultra became the motto of their monarchy and now of Spain itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus_ultra
So this feels like some kind of post-1492 representation by Spanish royalty of their historical successes in Spain and across the Atlantic?
Nice dissertation but it's not Avila. Avila is NW by about two hours depending on the route you take.
Northern_Brewer
British - apparently some US company stole my name
I didn't say it was Avila, merely that there was a memorial to it as it had historical significance. Blenheim Palace isn't in Bavaria, Waterloo station isn't in Belgium.
But if it's two hours away then that implies somewhere down on the Tagus valley towards Toledo.
If we're talking the Spanish royal family, then the only obvious candidate is Aranjuez, and with a bit of a poke around its gardens, we come to the Fountain of Hercules and Antaeus, I guess the Hercules connection makes sense with non plus ultra. There's a matching pillar on the other side with the inscription Calpe, a town near Alicante that was also the scene of a significant battle with the Arabs.
It is near Toledo and it is in Aranjuez. More importantly it is the fountain. Unfortunately, it only operates on a schedule and all the water is drained at Noon.
You're up.
You're up.
Northern_Brewer
British - apparently some US company stole my name
OK, let's go somewhere where there's no shortage of water...
Looks like the UK with all the rain. But I’ll go for Borneo
Bhutan.
Northern_Brewer
British - apparently some US company stole my name
Yes it's Bhutan
From the happiest country in to world to somewhere less happy.
looks like tallinn, but not 100% sure
Northern_Brewer
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I was sort of waiting for more detail than a country, unless "United States" is now acceptable for most of the pictures posted here....
No, but good guess. Not Estonia.
You waited too long, so it was assumed that the answer was correct.
Is it Odesa
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... so it's two for one now?
Riga, capital of Latvia?
Punakha-Dzong?
Riga, capital of Latvia?
Riga is correct.
You're up.
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