Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[govner1]

Cha-Ching! @dbmoody, you’re up!

Sorry, brew_dude41 is up. Not Netherlands chesirecat

some how we have overlapping responses

 

[D.B.Moody]

Cha-Ching! @dbmoody, you’re up!

Not me! That was @Brew_Dude41 that answered yours correctly. And it was @Cheshire Cat that posited the Netherlands after correct answer disappeared.
My stuff about El Morro was just a reply to to @tracer bullet.

edit: nevermind

 

[Brew_Dude41]

Sorry, folks had some family matters distracting me for a few days there.

 

[pvpeacock]

Philadelphia?

 

[Brew_Dude41]

Philadelphia?

Sorry not Philly. (Now I want cheesesteak a proper hoagie and some Wawa coffee)

 

[govner1]

Sorry not Philly. (Now I want cheesesteak a proper hoagie and some Wawa coffee)

Yale

 

[D.B.Moody]

Ohio State University with Columbus, Ohio, skyline in background. The answer was just to the left of the picture.

 

[Brew_Dude41]

Apologies to everyone playing at home, I been absent far too long.
@D.B.Moody is correct, THE Ohio State University.

 

[D.B.Moody]

. . . THE Ohio State University.

Well I didn't know about the trademarked "THE" there. Here's another, and, just so you know, it's not Kirkwood. From 1993:

 

[pvpeacock]

Philadelphia?

 

[D.B.Moody]

Not Philadelphia.

 

[DBhomebrew]

A pedestrian's city. I used to pass by that building on some of my meanderings.

 

[tracer bullet]

A pedestrian's city. I used to pass by that building on some of my meanderings.

Ahhhh. I've heard of that. Probably in a movie since I've never been there. And that's the boat house for launching their rowing gizmos.

Harvard?

I've been to Cambridge a few times for work, maybe that's why it seems a bit familiar. I don't think I saw it in person though. Hmm. Anyhow, that's my guess.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Harvard, Cambridge, MA, it is. You're up @tracer bullet.

 

[tracer bullet]

 

[InspectorJon]

The mountains remind me of the Alps, so does the water color.

 

[tracer bullet]

Agreed, which is sort of why I chose it, but it's not the Alps.

 

[cmac62]

to me it looks farther north than the alps. lapland or somewhere in that area?

 

[tracer bullet]

Wrong direction, and not by a little

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Norway

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Southern Alps in New Zealand?

 

[Northern_Brewer]

I'm sure I've seen those Y-shaped electricity pylons before, I think we're in Europe. The church looks Romanesque, and the vegetation feels more Mediterranean than northern Europe.

So we could be in the Balkans or Carpathians maybe, but let's say the Pyrenees? Purely on the grounds that I've been to the latter but not the former, so that's where I might have seen the pylons.

 

[tracer bullet]

Pyrenees is much, much closer to correct.

(Not New Zealand or Norway)

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Dolomites?

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Pyrenees is much, much closer to correct.

There's not many mountains in France that are closer to the Pyrenees than the Alps, so that makes me think the other side - Picos de Europa maybe?

Skimming the map for big bridges over lakes, it looks like Riano, just south of the Picos proper? Looks a lot prettier with snow though!

 

[tracer bullet]

@Northern_Brewer has it!

I came across it not long ago, possibly as a rotating windows background or screen saver. I always hover over them to see where they are, and new I had to remember this one in case it became my turn. Lots of good guesses, I'm glad it wasn't obvious that this was actually in Spain.

I did enjoy the college theme, but had this in mind already.

Anyhow, Northern_Brewer is next.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Here we go (one clue edited out)

 

[Northern_Brewer]

As I often do, there is an obscure topical connection to this one, that's not very obvious.

But to start you on your way - what building might have inspired this particular skyline?

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Glasgow

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Glasgow

Very, very cold