Pictures of the city you life in

guardian1967 · Post by **guardian1967** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:10 pm

Hello,

i saw that there was a topic about pictures from your country but i would like to see pictures of the city you life in.

pepitopulpito · Post by **pepitopulpito** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:19 pm

Right now there is a kind of contest in my city about photos of Tres Cantos, so I'll take some of them to show you my city, although it doesn't have much to see. Anyway is a nice place to live!!
Let's go:

Tres Cantos from air...

We have a nice park with an artificial lake...

Sometimes (rare times) it snows in Tres Cantos...

Some nice fountains...

And this one with the town hall at the bottom

Sports in Tres Cantos...
the soccer field before:

and after:

Our soccer team Pegaso Tres Cantos is nowadays in the 3rd Spanish division, ten years from now we'll see them playing in Bernabeu Stadium

Hockey also in Tres Cantos:

And basketball...

guardian1967 · Post by **guardian1967** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:31 pm

Woowww what a beautiful city

androl · Post by **androl** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:40 pm

Here are some pictures from Markdorf:

overview from the tower on the mountain

overview of the centre, this castle was built by the bishops

the church had a black top, now they gave it a new one

the Latschebrunnen in winter

this is the Hexenturm, a prison for witches some centuries ago

turtle · Post by **turtle** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:58 pm

Nice topic!

And also nice pictures pepitopulpito and androl!
So now i'll post something from Haarlem, my place, and a nice city I think, at least the centre is!

The St. Bavo Church at the Grote Markt (Marketplace) in Haarlem. This church is famous because of his big organ, and because of the 'damiaatjes' which are little clocks which used to ring round 9 pm when the children had to go to sleep

Not a very good image of the Botermarkt (literally Butter Marketplace or something

)

At the Spaarne, the river which flows through the centre (or maybe at the rand) of Haarlem

A street in the centre of Haarlem

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The Waarderpolder from above

Het Wed, in Overveen, very nearby Haarlem

Statue of Laurens Janszoon Coster, who was, as many people from Haarlem believe, the inventer of the printing/typography, so not Johan Gutenberg

The Grote Markt again

The Railway Station of Haarlem

The Frans Hals museum of the painter yep you can guess it: Frans Hals

The Vleeshal in Haarlem. It means meat hall, cause in the Middle Centuries, it was the only place where meat was allowed to be sold. Nowadays this hall is being used for expositions, and so

The Teylers museum, with paintings, stones, things like that

The Toneelschuur (Theatre Shet or sth) which is used for oh really theatre, but also movies!

The District House with sculptures (you can't see it on the picture unforunately) of Laocoön and one other one which i forgot

, from the Classical Histroy. It is in the Haarlemmerhout, where also the Haarlemmerhoutfestival, and Bevrijdingspop (festival on 5 mai which is the day of the liberation of Holland in 1945

Het Patronaat, a big, kind of music podia

The Kenau Park, which is called to Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer, which was a woman, but she fought like the men, when Haarlem was occupied by Spain in 1572-1573, against the enemy. That's why she's also called 'manwijf', which means something like a mannish woman.

So that was it, maybe much pictures and a bit history with it but i was enthusiast

lazza · Post by **lazza** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 6:02 pm

Nice pictures - I really like the different styles of architecture for each country.

I'll try to dig out some pictures of Newcastle, but here's one of Whitley Bay (the small coastal town near Newcastle, where I live) that I took in the Autumn.

pepitopulpito · Post by **pepitopulpito** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 6:07 pm

WOW!!! Nice Bodensee and nice Haarlem! What a nice topic!
Already two places to go to make tourism... and dothunting

Shark · Post by **Shark** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 6:44 pm

Some pics from my hometown Alahärmä

Church of Alahärmä

Knuuttilanraitti

Antti Isotalo's (Isoo Antti) home

Lapuanjoki river

Haarusjärvi lake

PowerPark

Mika Salo Circuit (FIA CIK Karting World Championship 2002)

Mika Salo Circuit

eurojuanmi · Post by **eurojuanmi** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 8:20 pm

some pictures from the spanish capital, near Pepitopulpito's city:

Puerta del Sol:

Plaza Mayor

Plaza de Oriente:

Palacio Real:

Gran Via

Callao (Gran Via) with Torre de Madrid

Puerta de Alcala

Retiro (lake)

Azca, the second tower by the right (the gold one) is the Windsor, a building burned on the 13 of February, 2005, and it was dismantle in 6 months by some cranes

Puerta de Toledo

Palacio the Comunicaciones (the new town hall) and Cibeles

Plaza de la Villa (the old town hall)

Templo de Debod, a present from Egypt

Santiago Bernabeu, Real Madrid house

Vicente Calderon, Atletico de Madrid house, with Manzanares river

Almudena Cathedral

Plaza de Toros Las Ventas (bullfighting)

Plaza de España (left to right): Torre de Madrid, Cervantes monument (with Don Quijote and Sancho Panza) and Edificio de España

Torres Kio

Faro de Moncloa and Moncloa

Torres Blancas

Hotel Puerta de America

Torres de Colon with Madrid

Plaza de Colon

El Piruli

My street, and my house (the yellow on the left)

Fjon · Post by **Fjon** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 11:23 am

Here are a few of Dublin:

Dublin Castle Park:

Modern Art Gallery:

Botanic Gardens:

Colliemore Harbour, Dalkey Island:

Phoenix Park, the largest city park in Europe:

guardian1967 · Post by **guardian1967** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:38 pm

The railwaystation

Local work of artists

Sportcomplex

Swimmingpool

The best kayakkers come from here

Asiamaniac · Post by **Asiamaniac** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 7:52 pm

Very interesting and beautiful pictures. What about EBTM07 in Madrid?

eurojuanmi · Post by **eurojuanmi** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:27 pm

this is a nice topic, I want more cities

Lasterpaule · Post by **Lasterpaule** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:23 pm

Here are some pictures from Giengen.

Das Rathaus (town-hall)

Die Fußgängerzone (pedestrian area)

Steiff-Erlebniswelt (Home from "Teddy")

Die Charlottenhöhle und das Höhlenhaus mit der Erlebniswelt.

Das Bergbad

Der alte Wachturm (the old watch tower)

Der Verkehrslandeplatz Giengen/Brenz (EDNG) (the airport)

Feuerwehr (fire brigade)

Das Brenztal (brenz valley)

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:00 pm

Here are pictures from my home town, Hämeenlinna. It is a small town, about 45 000 inhabitants but definitely worth of visiting.

Market square. The red building is the town hall.

Traditional wooden architecture. There are still left some buildings like this.

A famous composer called Jean Sibelius was born in this building.

This building represents the Finnish art nouveau style from early 1900's.

We also have an old medieval castle here.

The nature is very beautiful here in Hämeenlinna. There is a hill in Aulanko natural park where used to be a wooden castle in viking times. Nowadays there is one of the most famous view points in Finland.

Ahvenisto motor track and Ahvenisto Lake. There is an open air pool nearby where was held the swimming competition of Helsinki Olympics in 1952.

More pictures in the web site of Hämeenlinna.