Photos tagged as monument

Chapultepec Park Monument

Monument to the six Heroic Cadets, with Chapultepec Castle in the background.

• Date: 30 May 2013
• Photographer: manolo84: gallery
• Location: Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico
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Buenos Aires Flower Sculpture

Flower Sculpture

• Date: 3 April 2013
• Photographer: moseyingmizuiks: gallery
• Location: San Nicolas, Argentina
• Tags: monument sculpture argentina sightseeing buenos_aires flower_sculpture
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The Pecos Mission

Mission Ruins

• Date: 29 March 2013
• Photographer: Miss Chris: gallery
• Tags: monument travel national mission outdoors pecos
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Pyramiden

• Date: 21 June 2012
• Photographer: hammarn: gallery
• Location: Pyramiden, Svalbard
• Tags: monument europe norway svalbard spitsbergen pyramiden
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Sir Walter Scott Monument

Sir Walter Scott Monument in Edinburgh, Scotland.

• Date: 2 June 2012
• Photographer: ThisMomTravels: gallery
• Location: City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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View of Edinburgh Castle

View of Edinburgh Castle and the National Portrait Gallery from atop the Sir Walter Scott Monument.

• Date: 2 June 2012
• Photographer: ThisMomTravels: gallery
• Tags: scotland edinburgh monument scott castle uk sir walter
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A rooftop view

of the old houses of one of the oldest ceramics districts in China, dating near 1500.

• Date: 21 May 2012
• Photographer: findmywuwei: gallery
• Location: 佛山市, China
• Tags: art architecture monument history china roofs tiles guangzhou foshan historical_monument tile_roof
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Monumento Ernest Che Guevara

• Date: 11 May 2012
• Photographer: FUTURO: gallery
• Location: Santa Clara, Cuba
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Monumento Ernest Che Guevara

• Date: 11 May 2012
• Photographer: FUTURO: gallery
• Location: Santa Clara, Cuba
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Monumento Ernest Che Guevara

• Date: 11 May 2012
• Photographer: FUTURO: gallery
• Location: Santa Clara, Cuba
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Che Mausoleum

• Date: 11 May 2012
• Photographer: FUTURO: gallery
• Location: Santa Clara, Cuba
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Che Mausoleum

• Date: 11 May 2012
• Photographer: FUTURO: gallery
• Location: Santa Clara, Cuba
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Statue of Liberty from QM2, arriving in thick fog

• Date: 4 May 2012
• Photographer: Gelli: gallery
• Tags: monument ships
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Memorial Jose Marti

• Date: 2 May 2012
• Photographer: FUTURO: gallery
• Location: Cerro, Cuba
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Sun Yat Sen Memorial hall

• Date: 30 April 2012
• Photographer: rwood8: gallery
• Location: 西康里, Taiwan
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Cruss de Ferro

• Date: 1 December 2011
• Photographer: Bogdan Walker: gallery
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Bruxelles, l'Atomium

The Atomium is a monument in Brussels, originally built for Expo '58, the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. Designed by André Waterkeyn, it stands 102 meters (335 ft) tall. It has nine steel spheres connected so that the whole forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times.

• Date: 6 November 2011
• Photographer: Abud Nantel: gallery
• Location: Brussel, Belgium
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Belgique, butte du lion de Waterloo

The Lion's Mound (or "Lion's Hillock", "Butte du Lion" in French, "Leeuw van Waterloo" in Dutch) is a large conical artificial hill raised on the battlefield of Waterloo to commemorate the location where William II of the Netherlands (the Prince of Orange) was knocked from his horse by a musket ball to the shoulder during the battle. It was ordered constructed in 1820 by his father, King William I of The Netherlands, and completed in 1826.

• Date: 5 November 2011
• Photographer: Abud Nantel: gallery
• Location: Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium
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Belgique, butte du lion de Waterloo

The Lion's Mound (or "Lion's Hillock", "Butte du Lion" in French, "Leeuw van Waterloo" in Dutch) is a large conical artificial hill raised on the battlefield of Waterloo to commemorate the location where William II of the Netherlands (the Prince of Orange) was knocked from his horse by a musket ball to the shoulder during the battle. It was ordered constructed in 1820 by his father, King William I of The Netherlands, and completed in 1826.

• Date: 5 November 2011
• Photographer: Abud Nantel: gallery
• Location: Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium
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Belgique, butte du lion de Waterloo

The Lion's Mound (or "Lion's Hillock", "Butte du Lion" in French, "Leeuw van Waterloo" in Dutch) is a large conical artificial hill raised on the battlefield of Waterloo to commemorate the location where William II of the Netherlands (the Prince of Orange) was knocked from his horse by a musket ball to the shoulder during the battle. It was ordered constructed in 1820 by his father, King William I of The Netherlands, and completed in 1826.

• Date: 5 November 2011
• Photographer: Abud Nantel: gallery
• Location: Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium
• Tags: monument belgium
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Rotunda

The Rotunda was started in 1739, the year of Thomas Wentworth's death and completed by his son William Wentworth in 1742. It is a round Ionic temple. Its plan is based on the temple of Hercules at Tivoli, near Rome and originally it stood clear of trees on a grassy hil

• Date: 21 October 2011
• Photographer: TOBY TYKE: gallery
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Hoober Stand

The Stand itself was built in 1747-8 to commemorate defeat of the Jacobite rebellion in 1745, when the 1st Marquis (then plain Thomas Watson Wentworth) fought on the side of King George II. In recognition of his contribution, the King elevated Wentworth to Marquis, and the new Marquis decided to build the 30 metre tower to show his gratitude.

• Date: 19 October 2011
• Photographer: TOBY TYKE: gallery
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Wentworth's Needle

Legend has it that Earl Fitzwilliam built the structure as a result of a wager that he could drive his horse and carriage through the eye of a needle. The position on the coach road supports this story, although the size of the archway is probably only sufficient to accomodate a small gun carriage.

• Date: 19 October 2011
• Photographer: TOBY TYKE: gallery
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Washington Monument Behind Reflecting Pool, Washington, DC

• Date: 19 August 2011
• Photographer: shoestring: gallery
• Location: Franklin Mcpherson Square, USA
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Washington Monument, Washington, DC

• Date: 18 August 2011
• Photographer: shoestring: gallery
• Location: Franklin Mcpherson Square, USA
• Tags: monument usa washington dc obelisk
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