Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[bracconiere]

Santona, Spain?

 

[Andres Falconer]

Ah, Pamplona. You beat me to it... The second picture looks very different from the 1st, which could have been in many many places. The "El Mexicano" restaurant was a telltale sign that this was NOT Mexico

 

[D.B.Moody]

Would have taken a long time without the second pic.

Pamploma is correct. And I had a back up just in case:

You're up @dirkomatic.

 

[bracconiere]

Ah, Pamplona. You beat me to it... The second picture looks very different from the 1st, which could have been in many many places. The "El Mexicano" restaurant was a telltale sign that this was NOT Mexico

i blew the pic up and was thinking, it said maya-star-vkv something?

 

[Andres Falconer]

i blew the pic up and was thinking, it said maya-star-vkv something?

I couldn't read it either, but with a bit of gestalt and the hat, I could make it out.

 

[dirkomatic]

I couldn't read it either, but with a bit of gestalt and the hat, I could make it out.

I couldn't read it either. "El M**********" was all I could make out. I couldn't even figure out it was a hat.

 

[dirkomatic]

This one is sort of related to a discussion a short while back:

 

[Andres Falconer]

I couldn't read it either. "El M**********" was all I could make out. I couldn't even figure out it was a hat.

And you couldn't see the elephant either?

 

[Andres Falconer]

This one is sort of related to a discussion a short while back:
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St. Mary's City, Md?

 

[dirkomatic]

Not MD. Further west this time for sure.

 

[Andres Falconer]

Not MD. Further west this time for sure.

Then... Springfield?

 

[dirkomatic]

Then... Springfield?

It is Springfield... Which one?

 

[Andres Falconer]

Ok. I won. Give me a break!

 

[Andres Falconer]

One of these:

 

[dirkomatic]

Ha!

The yellowish house in the near distance was the home of a famous Springfield resident.... And not one of the Simpsons.

 

[dirkomatic]

You're so close, @Andres Falconer. Just read my thoughts on your earlier Springfield guess....

 

[Andres Falconer]

Springfield, Il

 

[Andres Falconer]

Abe's house?

 

[dirkomatic]

There you go!

Good job, @Andres Falconer

 

[Andres Falconer]

I just keep repeating myself...

 

[Andres Falconer]

Y’all are supposed to guess or ask for clues… I already left one. There’s also a bit of sleight of hand in this image, which was obviously not taken by me.

 

[dirkomatic]

I can't find anything which looks right but since you are repeating yourself, I'll say Lisbon, Portugal

 

[Andres Falconer]

That would be very close, indeed. But the town in the picture is way too small to be Lisbon. This place was talked about in a great book. By an award-winning non-English author.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Convent of Mafra, Mafra, Portugal

 

[Andres Falconer]

Now I can go to sleep. Well done, @D.B.Moody

 

[Andres Falconer]

The building is better known as the Palace of Mafra, but, just as my previous post of El Escorial, it is a royal palace, a monastery, a church, a hunting lodge, a UNESCO heritage site and, apparently, a convent. It has one of the most stunning libraries I have seen. Apparently the Portuguese kings, having too much gold in their coffers and still-recent memories of being under Spanish domination, wanted to one up their Spanish cousins.

Jose Saramago, a Nobel Laureate, wrote Memorial do Convento (published as Baltasar and Blimunda in English), which has the grueling construction of the palace as its backdrop. It’s an incredible book. In the horizon you can almost see Ericeira beach, known for its world class waves.

 

[Andres Falconer]

Oh, the sleigh of hand was that the image was of the back of the palace, which looks very different from the more easily recognizable facade.

 

[D.B.Moody]

This is the back side of things too. From 1988:

 

[Andres Falconer]

This is the back side of things too. From 1988:
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It’s got to be in Europe. Unless it’s in Boston.

 

[D.B.Moody]

It’s got to be in Europe. Unless it’s in Boston.

It's not Boston.