I have no idea how we would have gone from “temple tank somewhere in India” to “Anuradhapura” though - is there a clue we’re not seeing? I thought the stepped design might be a clue, but it turns out “that is how they do everywhere”
This view, showing both, with the north-south alignment might have been kinder
… but one thing is for sure: it is amazingly hard to tell what will be hard and what won’t, in this game, isn’t it!?
Something the above screenshot conveys better is what it is like to visit these places. It doesn’t show the ubiqitous crushing crowds, but it does show the filth quite effectively.
It also shows the actual (experienced) colour balance much more truthfully. The photosphere picture posted has this wonderful deep green feel to it, with matching blues and oranges.
The streetview image shows much more how I experience it anyhow: washed out and dirty-grey.
Something to bear in mind when planning the bucket-list trip
I didn’t, I actually couldn’t find it at all, having viewed several hundreds of tanks, but I guess that’s a good revenge from your cathedral experience
I’m not sure it’s Rome, or even Italy. This kind of street can be found in many European cities. All of the traffic signs can be found all over Europe. I got some enjoyment out of the fact that someone painted a smiley on this damaged sign:
None of the license plates are visible, except for the truck, which is also useless since they are often different than the normal cars.
I think the electronic sign is a bus stop. It does not look like the electronic bus stops found in Rome. Nor does the garbage bin that’s visible right under the (probably) tourist with the pink bag:
Nice work. As I said, I only arrived at Rome out of the path of statue… no other clue… must be major city with statues
Nice that you found some other leads. I agree that the electronic sign seems to refute the Rome assumption. Also interestingly cruising around Rome I had the feeling that all the streets were different feeling - somehow not as cramped.
I could find these egg-shaped bins in Hamburg, Berlin and Vienna, but in each of those cities they’re bright orange… Also, this image does not look like either of those cities.
Yeah, I have a feeling that we will find this is a relatively famous statue, like the earlier one by the river, but in the absence of actually recognising it, we’re missing something to start from.
Yeah, that one is really hard indeed. I thought one would see better -but that’s probably because I’ve been there myself- that this is one of two statues flanking the end of a bridge. And yes, we’re in major Italian city.
This is a bit a wider angle. I tried to redact the name of the bridge. If you could look to the left, you would recognize the city for sure, but probably only if you had ever seen that landmark before.
Because this is Firenze (Florence), the Santa Trinita bridge, to be exact. I had tried finding the statue by specifically searching for statues in Firenze, but even if you filter out David, there are just too many statues…
