Mainz Daily Photo

>Good neigh-bours – #257

>Originally: The stables of the neighbouring Prince Elector’s palace, crowned with a massive gold-plated copper stallion* which led to its being called “The Golden Horse Barracks”

Then: Destroyed in world war 2

Then: Rebuilt in the 1960s

Now: The State Museum

* On closer inspection, I think it could be a mare…

29 Nov This entry was published on 29 November, 2007 at 12:00. It’s filed under Uncategorized and tagged . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.

3 thoughts on “>Good neigh-bours – #257”

  1. Around the World on said:

    >I’ve re-instated your entry in our guide.

    Reply ↓
  2. R&R in The Netherlands on said:

    >Nice nighttime shot, and welcome back.

    Reply ↓
  3. Kate on said:

    >The barracks is well-named, and the horse is well-lighted.

    Reply ↓

Leave a Reply to Around the World Cancel reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

%d bloggers like this: