The Nashville Parthenon. Didn't have time to go inside it, or walk around to take pictures across the park lake, but I'm pretty pleased with how this one came out.
Its name is nothing more nor less than the truth. :)
When Nashville hosted the 1897 Centennial Exposition (Worlds Fair), they decided to build a copy of the Parthenon as the central building. After the fair, it was popular enough that they kept it, even to the point of rebuilding it when the original plaster building fell apart.
If you've ever seen the first Percy Jackson movie, I'm told part of it was filmed there. :)
I haven't seen the Percy Jackson movies, although I think my daughter has. (She read a bunch of the books, I think.)
One of my favorite buildings (?) is Seoul's Namdaemun [photo, Wikimedia Commons]. It used to be one of the city's outer gates and is now, like, in the middle of downtown. :p The building that's there now is reconstructed because a lot of it burned down due to arson after standing more centuries.
I've been to Athens once with classmates and remember climbing the stairs to visit the Parthenon. I was much healthier back then; I was first up the stairs. :p That's never happening again! The other cool thing about Athens was that, assuming willingness to backtrack and stuff by foot, I was able to navigate by the Acropolis because it was visible from darn near everywhere.
The Namdaemun is impressive; sounds like the kind of scene I'd love to see in person. There's a certain... piquancy to having a piece of history like that in the middle of a sprawling city. :) (Fort Negley, just south of downtown Nashville, is much like that. [https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1454561,-86.7746467,460m/data=!3m1!1e3] The park is for the most part its own little world, and wandering around the fort you could almost think yourself well out in the country...
...until you run across a spot where the trees thin, and you see the infamous Dark Tower of AT&T. :)
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Date: 2016-03-31 12:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-03-31 01:05 am (UTC)When Nashville hosted the 1897 Centennial Exposition (Worlds Fair), they decided to build a copy of the Parthenon as the central building. After the fair, it was popular enough that they kept it, even to the point of rebuilding it when the original plaster building fell apart.
If you've ever seen the first Percy Jackson movie, I'm told part of it was filmed there. :)
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Date: 2016-03-31 01:11 am (UTC)I haven't seen the Percy Jackson movies, although I think my daughter has. (She read a bunch of the books, I think.)
One of my favorite buildings (?) is Seoul's Namdaemun [photo, Wikimedia Commons]. It used to be one of the city's outer gates and is now, like, in the middle of downtown. :p The building that's there now is reconstructed because a lot of it burned down due to arson after standing more centuries.
I've been to Athens once with classmates and remember climbing the stairs to visit the Parthenon. I was much healthier back then; I was first up the stairs. :p That's never happening again! The other cool thing about Athens was that, assuming willingness to backtrack and stuff by foot, I was able to navigate by the Acropolis because it was visible from darn near everywhere.
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Date: 2016-03-31 04:40 am (UTC)...until you run across a spot where the trees thin, and you see the infamous Dark Tower of AT&T. :)
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Date: 2016-04-01 07:59 pm (UTC)