In Zagreb's main square, buildings covered in lettering and adverts.
I'm not lovin' it: small demo against McDonalds.
Cathedral spires and light pylon. Statuary behind fencing at the Cathedral: one, two, three.
Glagolitic text in the cathedral, which unlike some in North-Western Europe has the feeling of a living, working religious building. The script was devised by St Cyril in the C9th from Greek forms, and is the foreunner of Cyrillic (history of the Glagolitic script, and an explanation).
Beautiful C19th building in a little disrepair.
Miracle wall at Kamenita Vrata: in 1731, a fire burnt everything in the area around this gate into the walled town of Gradec. except a painting of the Virgin. The people put signs up thanking the Madonna for the miracle, and people pray there today.
Nearby, a wall: lamp, road signs, keyed render, painted sign.
Tiled roof on St Mark's Church (C13th, roof added in 1880), in the Trg Svetog Marka. Depicts the coats of arms of the Kingdom of Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia (L) and of Zagreb (R), and looks like Lego.
Green netting over blue scaffolding in the Upper Town. (Across the Adriatic in Northern Italy, they tend to use black scaffold with gold fitments.)
Suspended airplane at Ljubljana airport, Slovenia.
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how is it you know the preferences for scafolding colours in the eastern med?
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Posted by: alex laurie | November 09, 2004 at 06:44 PM
Great city, isn't it?
(And it looks like I was taking similar routes around it a month earlier: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mottram/sets/16933/ )
Posted by: Jack | November 22, 2004 at 02:29 PM