I must find out where this picture is from.. (name of building structure, country, etc...)

Anyone got a clue? :eek:

http://hwet.homestead.com/files/workfile.jpg

France? That museum placy I forgot. The louve? lol

I think it may just be that. (I looked up some info on the museum.)

I belive thats the red square in russia

i remember a very similar picture in france but it had a recently added glass pyramid fountain. if the pics an old one then it could be one of the palaces in paris, been a few years since ive been there tho.

yeah,
looks like it would be from somewhere in france....


Chris

The entrace to my home....how did you get a pic of it??:D

either way its one nice summer house :) need to get my hands on one of them. that ones prolly already owned by some of these 13 yr old webhosts earning 20 million a week people keep talking about ;)

Originally posted by AcuNett
France? That museum placy I forgot. The louve? lol

I agree with AcuNett, it appears to be the Louvre Museum.

That's not the Louvre.

im pretty sure its red square in moscow

Cmon any francais's? Benoir seems to be one ;). Au revoir!

Looks like spain to me!

had to put my 2 cents in

:)

It looks like a nice place.

Could be converted into a nice datacenter. :cool:

What do they need all that space for anyway :rolleyes: :D

I am sure it's not louve or moscow red square. But I think that's in Vienna. I will ask my wife if she remember the place :) We've been in almost all countries in Europe and I am quite sure that's Vienna.

I believe it is the Palace at Marsellies <sp> its definately french architecture

Well, I can't tell you where it is, but I can tell you that it isn't Red Square (which isn't a square area created by a building like this).

Please S T O P posting pictures of my garden... will ya?

It's certainly not the red square, it's the louvre, no doubt about it.

Nope, it isn't the Louvre, i've been there and it has two glass pyramids in the middle of it with escalaters inside going underground to the museum. Sorry no idea where it is :confused:

I believe ( and looking it up right now because I have an old painting of it ) it is in spain, built before 1683 - 1686 ( the time of my painting )

I do not know if it's madrid or barcelona, Also note, You are seeing 4 sides to the square (plaza), the plaza is boxed in, that along is not common in europe till after the 1650.

Mike

update it's not the plaza mayor in madrid ( that one is colored redish )

did anyone stop to ask "why" this person needs to know where it is ?? lol :)

Originally posted by redjackryan
I believe it is the Palace at Marsellies <sp> its definately french architecture You might mean Marseille; or maybe Versailles. But I don't think there is a place actually called "the Palace at Marseille," while there are a couple of palaces in the area -- but I don't think any look like the place in the picture. The style looks similar to that of the Palace of Versailles, but that it isn't.

Hardweb might be on the right track; it looks something like one of the many "squares" in Vienna -- but I couldn't say that it is any of them. And really that style of architecture is seen throughout Western Europe. So my bottom line: I have no idea. But absolutely not the Louvre... even dismissing that the pyramids are missing, the detail on the building is different.

Originally posted by hardweb
I am sure it's not louve or moscow red square. But I think that's in Vienna. I will ask my wife if she remember the place :) We've been in almost all countries in Europe and I am quite sure that's Vienna.

doesn't look like anywhere in vienna to me. at least not anywhere i've been to. possibly the interior of rathaus, but, i doubt it.

my vote would be on france or spain. that style architecture IS very common throughout western europe however..

Originally posted by IceBlaZe
It's certainly not the red square, it's the louvre, no doubt about it.
Nope, its not the Louvre :) Like others have said, the Louvre has two glass pyramids in the middle. Also, there are no arches like the photo has in the foreground.

It's not the Palace of Versailles either, its completely different.

It's definitely European architecture, my money's on Spain or southern France.

Well keep in mind the pyramids at the louvre were only built recently. This may be an 18th century picture or so.

Originally posted by AcuNett
Well keep in mind the pyramids at the louvre were only built recently. This may be an 18th century picture or so.

Not even that old. I don't think the glass pyramid access to the museum was added more than two decades ago...

Even so, the arches aren't right, and the road isn't there :) Also the Louvre is a bit wider.

It is the Town Hall of Salamanca, Spain, located at the "plaza mayor".

It was done by Adrés García de Quiñones
Yes/No?
:D

Originally posted by hardweb
I am sure it's not louve or moscow red square. But I think that's in Vienna. I will ask my wife if she remember the place :) We've been in almost all countries in Europe and I am quite sure that's Vienna.


Vienna = 100% not, or at least i havent seen it yet ( 5 yrs in Vienna)

:)

But it remind's me of few places i have seen on the adriatic coast (croatia)

Venice

:D

Brick lane markets , london maybe?

More than likely the Plaza Mayor in Salamanca, Spain. If not, then it's some other city in Spain. :)

Update: I went back and looked at some photos from a trip to Spain, and it does indeed appear to be the Plaza Mayor in Salamanca. It is identical. :D

Originally posted by VoxKeysGtr
Update: I went back and looked at some photos from a trip to Spain, and it does indeed appear to be the Plaza Mayor in Salamanca. It is identical. :D For example:

http://www.alovelyworld.com/webesp/htmgb/esp04.htm

http://www.centroeureka.com/Fotos/plaza.htm

It does look like it could be the same place. The detail on the top of the main part of the building (a smaller spire and two statues on each side of a structure housing three bells), the stones on the plaza floor, etc...

http://www.lse-students.ac.uk/kvisgaar/latest.htm

there ya go brick lane, i know its the posher area of london so many of you wont get to see it, but the similarity is plain to see. couldnt be anywhere else.

Originally posted by richy
but the similarity is plain to see. couldnt be anywhere else. Really, I see no similarity! Which picture of Brick Lane shows any resemblance to the pic linked from the first post?

The photos of Salamanca's Plaza Mayor look pretty convincing to me, though there could be other examples of the same design.

lol that was irony. personally i think its down to france or spain (altho i didnt know there were eu subsidies back then ;)). the catalan architechture is close, but its a bit less white and a bit more umm curly? the french style was a bit closer. but thats subjective of course. it still screams french palace to me. the styles are very similar but the french went for a cleaner look. the original doesnt have the inward tiering present in catalan designs, but my eyes might be failing me. dont have enough knowledge of vienna to comment.


edit :
versailles, looks closer to me but not the exact match
http://www.chateauversailles.fr/

Originally posted by JayC
For example:

http://www.alovelyworld.com/webesp/htmgb/esp04.htm

http://www.centroeureka.com/Fotos/plaza.htm

That be it. Good job!

Piano - So why must you know where this building is?

Just curious :)

Originally posted by JayC
For example:

http://www.alovelyworld.com/webesp/htmgb/esp04.htm

http://www.centroeureka.com/Fotos/plaza.htm

It does look like it could be the same place. The detail on the top of the main part of the building (a smaller spire and two statues on each side of a structure housing three bells), the stones on the plaza floor, etc...

here is your proff that you are most likely right, this page has an image simular to what you posted http://www.coba.panam.edu/ozuna/DR.ozuna'sweb/Tour_Salamanca.htm

great job

mike

Originally posted by Gadgy
It is the Town Hall of Salamanca, Spain, located at the "plaza mayor".

It was done by Adrés García de Quiñones
Yes/No?
:D

Yes

http://www.cyberspain.com/ciudades-patrimonio/fotos/salplmay.htm

Originally posted by 9onlinehost
I belive thats the red square in russia

nope ))

I 100% Concur w/ Plaza Mayor in Salamanca, Spain.

For more proof

http://history.acusd.edu/gen/eng/spain/images/PDRM0094.jpg
http://www.cyberspain.com/ciudades-patrimonio/fotos/gif/4plaza2.jpg
http://www.ucm.es/info/ecosistemas/22/imagenes/salamanca.JPG
http://members.lycos.nl/epoppe/fotootjes/Salamanca1.jpg

Ahem... AcuNett :D

This may be an 18th century picture or so.

Cough... 18th century photo?... :D

Sorry..

Yes, it is Plaza Mayor. I've been there myself.

I should've looked in this thread sooner... there would've have been any inkling of Red Square (wha?) or anything like that. ;)

Originally posted by Studio64
Ahem... AcuNett :D

Cough... 18th century photo?... :D Maybe. The style looks like that of the famous 18th century photographer Fernando Nikonos, who invented the Nikon camera in 1760.



;)

I don't know, it looks like a very nice place!

Originally posted by JayC
Maybe. The style looks like that of the famous 18th century photographer Fernando Nikonos, who invented the Nikon camera in 1760.


Not intending to start an argument but, I was under the assumption that Daguerre invented photography with his process called Dageurreotype's in 1837. And those photos were extremely grainy and usually of very horrible exposure. Color photography was invented by James Clerk Maxwell in 1861 by combining 3 photos taken through 3 different colored filters then projected back again through the same filters but, the projections combined...

Looks like someone missed the sarcasm train again. Maybe next time.

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