Photo Contest

[EscapeGirl]

Well, I guess it's time to choose a winner! I liked all three...but I think the winner is...

Brimful-Asha! Congrats! I have NO idea how they got/built that statue there! Amazing!

[Brimful-Asha]

Yay me!!!! Thanks Greenapplish kitty Next topic is .....

Amazing European Landmarks

[RBS]

I will start with my personal favorite. The Elgin Marbles in the British Museum.

[Lilliputt]

How tempting to post a related monument to your post RBS buuuut I won't. Here is something else instead: The Knossos Palace in Creete, according to Greek myth home of the Minotaur and the famous Labyrinth

Here are some additional links

http://www.dolphin-hellas.gr/Maps/Crete/Knossos-fresco-B.jpg

http://www.tripsource.com/stories/Dave/Greece/DaveGreecePics/Knossos.jpg

http://www.bertsgeschiedenissite.nl/bronstijd/eeuw20/knossos010.jpg

(This one contains a bit of imagination but I like it anyway ) http://www.bertsgeschiedenissite.nl/...20/knossos.jpg

[Mcakkay]

I found some obvious ones

[Iva]

Thanks Suzy! And sorry I wasn't online, gad some internet problems and was kinda busy So thanks Escape for posting for me

Now, for Sumi's topic: The Holocaust Mahnmal Berlin. I think it's a monument that visualises the feeling of the events very, very well.

[EscapeGirl]

Located in Bulgaria, this is the Kazanluk Tomb. It's dated from the late 4th - early 3rd century B.C. It's located at Tyulbeto Hill near the town of Kazanluk. The pic below is part of a mural in the burial chamber (I believe).

[SuzyE730]

I've actually seen that place LIVE, Escape!

emm...Big Ben?

[Mcakkay]

I cant see yours Suzy

[dia]

This is the White Tower.It's located in Thessaloniki. It was used by the Ottomans successively as a fort, garrison and a prison. In 1826, at the order of the Sultan Mahmud II, there was a massacre of the prisoners in the Tower. Owing to the "countless victims of Ottoman torturers and executioners", the tower acquired the name "Tower of Blood" or "The Red Tower", which it kept until the end of the eighteenth century. Now it houses a Byzantine museum and is one of the city's leading tourist attractions. if you want to find out more look here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_T...f_Thessaloniki

[grigtho]

Brussels atomium

The Atomium is a monument built for Expo '58, the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. Designed by André Waterkeyn, it is 103-metre (335-feet) tall, with nine steel spheres connected so that the whole forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times. Tubes which connect the spheres along the 12 edges of the cube and from all eight vertices to the centre; these tubes enclose escalators containing exhibit halls and other public spaces; the top sphere provides a panoramic view of Brussels.
The spheres are 18 metres in diameter; three upper spheres lacking vertical support are not open to the public for safety reasons.

[Brimful-Asha]

Ok this has been a real tough decision, but I have chosen my winner and the winner is.......

Lilliput!truly amazing labyrinth, makes me want to get lost in them

Congrats!!!

[grigtho]

Congratulations Lilli!!!

At least sth Greek won

[Iva]

Yay Lilli!!

[Lilliputt]

.... oh! Thanks ya'll
Dear Greek, you are SO right

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