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Friday Photography Blog No. 24 | 200 comments (181 topical, 19 editorial, 0 hidden)

The first is the old synagogue in Prague. But you got me with the second, though the stone color looks familiar...

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sat Mar 1st, 2008 at 06:33:04 AM EST
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Re: WHAT/WHERE IS IT? (4.00 / 2)

Once again, you are correct sir!

But why is it so significant? Or what about is so?

by gioele (gioele(daught)sandler(aaaattttt)gmail(daught)kom) on Sat Mar 1st, 2008 at 01:20:03 PM EST
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Re: WHAT/WHERE IS IT? (none / 0)

I don't know, I can look it up on Wiki or Google, but answering that way is not fair.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sat Mar 1st, 2008 at 02:37:24 PM EST
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Re: WHAT/WHERE IS IT? (none / 1)

The stone is fantastic, a wonderful color (sandstone, I think)...

It is next to the Neckar...

by gioele (gioele(daught)sandler(aaaattttt)gmail(daught)kom) on Sat Mar 1st, 2008 at 02:01:30 PM EST
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Re: WHAT/WHERE IS IT? (none / 1)

If it is near the Neckar it could the castle in Heidelberg.

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Mar 1st, 2008 at 02:08:01 PM EST
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Re: WHAT/WHERE IS IT? (4.00 / 2)

Damn! Indeed it is! I thought of everything else in the region, even including Heidelberg University, but forgot about the intact part of the castle facade...

When I was here for the first time, we did the full tour in group behind a tour guide, who told a lot of anecdotes about the recent history of the castle. Then when the tour ended and he said farewell to everyone, he came to us -- and greeted us in Hungarian: an emigree...

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sat Mar 1st, 2008 at 02:29:34 PM EST
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Re: WHAT/WHERE IS IT? (4.00 / 2)

giele's photo shows the inner courtyard side:

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sat Mar 1st, 2008 at 02:32:01 PM EST
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Re: WHAT/WHERE IS IT? (4.00 / 2)

The scaffolding on one side on gioele's photo reminds me of one 'anecdote' told by that tour guide: an old women exclaimed at the end of a prior tour, "I was here in my childhood, and it looks exactly the same!" To which the tour guide responded in his own re-telling "But dear lady, we had to spend millions for it to look the same..."

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sat Mar 1st, 2008 at 02:35:52 PM EST
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