Travel Photography Photos tagged as cityscapes
The Causeway, built from fill taken from the canal, is being developed as a high end tourist and shopping destination.
Historical Buildings and Statues . Everpresent Clock-Towers . Obsession with "Time".
Buildings along the canals . originally warehouses now pricey homes and botiques .
Lively narrow city streets , crisscrossed by Canals and Friendly people on bicycles .
A church close to the Presidental Palace in Panama City.
Panama City, with only 1 million people, sure has a lot of glittering shiny skyscrapers. More on the the way!
Here is a partial view of modern Salvador, taken from Pestana Hotel, located in Rio Vermelho, an old fishermen's neighbourhood where big hotels and condominiums now abound. Pituba, one of the city's newer districts, can be seen in the background.
Here is another view of "Estação da Luz" (Light's Railway Station), in Downtown São Paulo. Time to get back home, after a hard day working in the very heart of this megalopolis. Many people don't pay attention to the nice sunset, making promises of a good evening.
Here is another pic taken from a plane, some minutes before its arrival at Santos Dumont Airport, in Downtown Rio. Guanabara Bay's entrance, Sugar Loaf, Santos Dumont Airport, part of Downtown, part of City's Harbour and some islands can be seen in this panoramic view.
Another flight from Rio to São Paulo, another view of the place where Rio was founded, close to the entrance of Guanabara Bay: Praia de Fora ("Outer Beach"). The Sugar Loaf (to the left), Botafogo Inlet and the districts/beaches of Urca and Botafogo (to the right) can also be seen.
Although situated very close to the place where Rio de Janeiro was founded, in 1565, Urca is a young District, built in a reclaimed land area, at the foot of Sugar Loaf Mountain, in the first decades of the XX Century. Once known for its famous Casino, Urca remains as an amazing and exclusive neighbourhood, one of the best in town. The photo was taken from Urca Hill.
El Faro I and El Faro II twin towers are Argentina's tallest buildings, 160 meters high, located in Puerto Madero, a new district, on the shores of La Plata River.