Northern_Brewer
British - apparently some US company stole my name
No
Now we're hot. Town?Zanzibar
Nice dissertation but it's not Avila. Avila is NW by about two hours depending on the route you take.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?
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.Nice dissertation but it's not Avila. Avila is NW by about two hours depending on the route you take.
No, but good guess. Not Estonia.looks like tallinn, but not 100% sure
You waited too long, so it was assumed that the answer was correct.I was sort of waiting for more detail than a country, unless "United States" is now acceptable for most of the pictures posted here....
Punakha-Dzong?OK, let's go somewhere where there's no shortage of water...
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From the happiest country in to world to somewhere less happy. View attachment 847810
Riga is correct.Riga, capital of Latvia?
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