Forum Game - Where's That Landmark?

Andre

Also on the same site

Andre

The actual distance between the last two real landmarks, as represented by these miniatures, is only 4.7 kilometers

Andre

We just continue as if nothing happened.

The name of the first miniature church is the same as the most famous church in the city where the originals of the two miniatures in the hints are situated; that church of the humpback

edward

Notre Dame-de-Fourviere Lyon, France. (@^@) whew.

http://photosoma.com/2010/12/looking-out/

http://www.sacred-destinations.com/f...e-de-fourviere

The distance from the miniatures to Lyon was the key.

edward

That appears to be correct. As usual I don't have anything ready to post.

Andre

That's correct indeed Edward, which indicates that you also found the original "France miniature" (last pic) park in Elancourt where all these are.

I thought that the second hint, the "Sacre Coeur" (holy heart) in Paris, sharing the heart with Valentines day, would give away the location of the miniature. When it didn't, I added the Eiffel tower.

The church of the humpback (Quasimodo) is obviously the "Notre Dame".

So if you go from France miniature in the right direction and distance, you can't miss Lyon, the third city of France and if you google 'notre dame lyon' it's all there.

Nice solve. I can upload another if you like but that would have to wait till tomorrow, but I'd welcome it if anybody else give it a try.

Andre

Sorry for the delay (no hint)

Andre

Another look:

Andre

An ordered list in the goddess of Earth?

Andre

The buildings are from about two thousand years ago and it is a protected area, including the many structures under water. The sinking of those structures is not attributed to general sea level rise but by a phenonemon known as bradyseism.

OmCheeto

Wild history. Neat place. I'll take it!

I was fixated for the last few days on the original image. I find the contrast of the black stone reinforcement of the natural stone strikingly beautiful. I would very much like that image on my wall.

I think I would title it:
"Let man join together, what Gaia is trying to put asunder."

Ya. I know. That's bad. But I've got the day off. I don't care.

Very interesting about that bradyseism.
That's taller than my house! Hard to imagine.

OmCheeto

I think I've got that right.

Here's one related to presidents day, but off by about 47 miles.

Andre

Great find Om,

The idea of the Bradyseism hint was to find out what that means, realizing that there must have been a volcano around, which for old Rome and Italy would suggest the Vesuvius, hence in the Napels area.

OmCheeto

The image looked very Mediterranean. I searched Greece, then Croatia, them Montenegro. Bradyeism took it home.

We've had similar talk of Bradyeism in my area, though ours may be due to tectonic shift, so it may have another name:

hmm... 10 cm over 4 years, interpolated to 2000 years yields:

.1m/4y * 2000y = 50 meters!

Quite worrisome when you're sitting on top of a very young 1.8 kilometer layer of lava.

But I think it's stopped. Whew!

OmCheeto

I wonder what the president is doing on president's day?

Ah ha!

President becomes ‘Coach Obama’ for daughter’s basketball team

Andre

It's the jaqua academic center

Anyway, after a good look I turned the pic upside down, decided that it was heavily distorted by the use of wide angle or by panoramic stitching of more pics. So I assumed that the corner was rectangular and that this would be a glass cube architectonically

But no luck witch Obama / president / basketball / coach / sport /..etc- glass cube. But then I tried a few obvious states and Oregon glass cube brought it down, the fourth hit

Andre

As we have an exact match it's probably safe to proceed.