(International) Guess the Location 2 a.k.a. Part Deux (see rules post 1)

martyos121

Three More Big Sleeps wrote: »

Fellow Bryson fan, Marty? You're up

Honestly I just skimmed that book a while back, I really did no research beyond googling to double check I had the name of the town right.

It’s a good picture of the place though because you make it look much smaller than it is, I’d be ages looking for it otherwise.

martyos121

A site of a truly heinous act (allegedly) is this place, one may find themselves at death’s door:

Three More Big Sleeps

martyos121 wrote: »

A site of a truly heinous act (allegedly)...

St. Vladimir Cathedral in Chersonesos/Sevastopol, Crimean Peninsula.

martyos121

Three More Big Sleeps wrote: »

St. Vladimir Cathedral in Chersonesos/Sevastopol, Crimean Peninsula.

Fair play, didn’t think it’d go that quickly. Did the clue give it away?

Three More Big Sleeps

^^^ More: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chersonesus_Cathedral

Three More Big Sleeps

martyos121 wrote: »

Did the clue give it away?

I'm still not sure if the "heinous" clue referred to Vlad's conversion to Christianity, the siege (of Sevastopol) at the end of the Crimean War, or something else I've missed at this late hour.

In any event, your photo just about screams Russian Orthodox, so I started with Ukraine* (see the ferris wheel episode earlier) and just got lucky

(* Crimean Peninsula disputed as Ukrainian, apparently.)

I'll sleep on it and post another in the AM.

martyos121

Three More Big Sleeps wrote: »

I'm still not sure if the "heinous" clue referred to Vlad's conversion to Christianity, the siege (of Sevastopol) at the end of the Crimean War, or something else I've missed at this late hour.

In any event, your photo just about screams Russian Orthodox, so I started with Ukraine* (see the ferris wheel episode earlier) and just got lucky

(* Crimean Peninsula disputed as Ukrainian, apparently.)

I'll sleep on it and post another in the AM.

Well first of all the one pictured is the Sevastopol church, which is a copy of the Chersonesus Cathedral. You guessed both which is perfectly fine but the clue refers to that particular church in Sevastopol.

It’s in reference to the rumoured killing of Joachim Levitsky, a martyr of the Russian Orthodox Church who was said to have been crucified within that church, hung upside down on the doors of the iconostasis (hence “...at death’s door”). It’s more of a religious myth than anything and his true fate is unknown, but I thought it would make for an interesting (if not a bit grim) riddle.

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niley

Point Dume Post Office, Malibu.



https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0218228,-118.8086138,3a,54.1y,165.14h,83.51t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suxGEkn0tQaRCbynnp4Ew5Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192


I found it from, of all things, the hint!



Of course that was only after searching ever other way I could think of before throwing my toys out of the pram.

Three More Big Sleeps

niley wrote: »

I found it from, of all things, the hint!

God dammit, Niley! :):)

Edit: For folks who missed the clue - I assume that's what you meant, Niley - the filename is dante.jpg. I'm a divil for reading the Trivia section on IMDb whilst keeping one eye on the actual movie.

"Dante's Peak (1997)

The somewhat volcano-shaped building, which appears as the "Cascade Volcano Observatory", is the real-life post office in Malibu, California."

1huge1

Wow, thats incredible that Niley put those two together! I'm well impressed!

I went down a slightly different path at looking at images of regional US postal service offices on google images. i think I'd of been at it a while.

niley

1huge1 wrote: »

Wow, thats incredible that Niley put those two together! I'm well impressed!

I went down a slightly different path at looking at images of regional US postal service offices on google images. i think I'd of been at it a while.

TMBS was watching Dante's Peak yesterday, then called the image dante.jpg today, and on Wikipedia for Dante's Peak is "Exterior shots of the Point Dume Post Office in Malibu, California, were used as..." so that I would say is the first time I used clue to solve anything.

I'll throw one up later this evening.

1huge1

niley wrote: »

TMBS was watching Dante's Peak yesterday, then called the image dante.jpg today, and on Wikipedia for Dante's Peak is "Exterior shots of the Point Dume Post Office in Malibu, California, were used as..." so that I would say is the first time I used clue to solve anything.

I'll throw one up later this evening.

Ah that makes a lot more sense.

It turns out I actually drove right past it, I've done the road trip from San Fran to LA going via Big Sur, I was probably too busy looking for a Dunkin Donuts to take note of it.

niley

Here we go..

Be right back

Assisi?

niley

Be right back wrote: »

Assisi?

Nopers.

Be right back

niley wrote: »

Nopers.

Is it in Italy?

martyos121

Matthias Church in Budapest? Can’t find that view of it but I’m fairly sure.

niley

Be right back wrote: »

Is it in Italy?

Nope!

martyos121 wrote: »

Matthias Church in Budapest? Can’t find that view of it but I’m fairly sure.

Yup!

martyos121

Three More Big Sleeps

That's the Cathedral Basilica São Luiz Gonzaga in Novo Hamburgo, Brazil.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Vb89QWXCkV6zLRjq5

Open to the floor, peeps, too tired this end.

KevRossi

Try this one so.

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KevRossi wrote: »

Try this one so.

Just to narrow it down a wee bit, Kev, and playing the odds, the Telefonica decal on the phonebox would suggest España?

KevRossi

Three More Big Sleeps wrote: »

Just to narrow it down a wee bit, Kev, and playing the odds, the Telefonica decal on the phonebox would suggest España?

Si.

I see sheep

Gernika?

San Juan Kalea - to be more precise

KevRossi

I see sheep wrote: »

Gernika?

San Juan Kalea - to be more precise

Well done. It's the mosaic of Picasso's Guernikara, in Guernica. Beautiful area, walked it on the Northern Camino last year.

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.315481,-2.6798483,3a,75y,317.02h,95.02t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1slhlktdm3gMfKrh3MnTuSGQ!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3Dlhlktdm3gMfKrh3MnTuSGQ%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D304.31607%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

Three More Big Sleeps

KevRossi wrote: »

... the mosaic of Picasso's Guernikara

Every day's a learning day.

The left hand of the woman surrounded by flames on the far right? To my eye, it looked three-dimensional in Kev's original pic which took to me to all sorts of inventively wrong searches :):)

Again, fair play, Sheep, mighty job altogether.

I see sheep

Lafayette County Courthouse
Mayo, Florida

ok, haven't had one up for a while......
lets see how this goes, not much good at embedding i'm afraid



I did it!