Showing posts with label x. Show all posts
Showing posts with label x. Show all posts
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Saturday, May 24, 2008
78 - Xewkija, Gozo, Malta
S central town on the island.
The word Xewkija is derived from Arabic and shows that there had been vast fields full of thorns in the past. Xewkija is famous/very well known for its majestic church, The Rotunda, which is dedicated to St. John The Baptist. It replaced an older church. This church is the Seat of the Knights of the Order of St. John. It was built from Maltese stone by local masons and craftsmen. It is the largest in Gozo and its dome dominates the village.
Monday, April 28, 2008
51 - Xiinkaupunki (aka Kristiinankaupunki), Finland
180mi NW of Helsinki, on the Gulf of Bothnia. There are not, as far as I can tell, any proper X-placenames in Scandinavia, so I had to make due with the Xmas-style abbreviation. (In Swedish, the town's name is the shorter Kristinestad).
The town shield is basically a map of the place, presumably up-close enough so the blue is the water of the fjord:
Sunday, March 30, 2008
25 - Xieng Khoang, Laos
City in the center of the North. Also the province that's home to the famous Plain of Jars. Here's some Lao Karaoke on the subject:
P.S. Second day in a row on Plate 25 — Xs don't appear on every atlas page so I had to go for what was near.
P.S. Second day in a row on Plate 25 — Xs don't appear on every atlas page so I had to go for what was near.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
115 - Xilitla, Mexico
In San Luis Potosà state, near the Veracruz border.
Just outside town there's a concrete surrealist landscape, Las Pozas, built in the 1960s by the Englishman Edward James, a sort of Watts Towers in the jungle. Though in Mexico there's so much more of a rich context for amazing undulating massive structures, tombs, and pyramids.
Just outside town there's a concrete surrealist landscape, Las Pozas, built in the 1960s by the Englishman Edward James, a sort of Watts Towers in the jungle. Though in Mexico there's so much more of a rich context for amazing undulating massive structures, tombs, and pyramids.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Saturday, January 12, 2008
63 - Xanten, Germany
On the Rhine downstream from Essen. And, saith Wikipedia, the only German town that begins with an X. Maybe because it's just barely in Germany, a few miles from the far-more-X-friendly Low Countries.
Above's my quick sketch of one of the Roman ruins in their architectural park. A very broken pediment ...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)