Antonio Correia
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Around where I live: Architecture, Parks, Nightlife, Food, Wildlife! Setubal Portugal, a heavenly place by the sea!
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Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Great to have a place for Setubal pictures! It deserves more mention! I have seen the area and there's beaches, thousands of boats, beautiful water, sandy beaches, the best fish on the planet, save for Bodrum in Southern Turkey wineries and lots of real Portuguese people to get to know!
Your first picture is a great start!
There are clean geometric white planes set together as if assembled according to a plan from folded white card stock in an architects office! It's immediately interesting and familiar as if we knew it in a former life.
In fact it's built to follow the terrain like our ancestors did on the rocky slopes of mountains, taking advantage of the bite in every crevice and the odd opening for sanctuary from the wild animals in caves. The familiarity of the shape, I think comes from the angles of the red tiled roofing, akin to the rocky slopes of our places of refuge.
This is also very modern, or perhaps what inspired Escher to conjure up impossibly angled architecture in his famous drawings.
Asher
Your first picture is a great start!
There are clean geometric white planes set together as if assembled according to a plan from folded white card stock in an architects office! It's immediately interesting and familiar as if we knew it in a former life.
In fact it's built to follow the terrain like our ancestors did on the rocky slopes of mountains, taking advantage of the bite in every crevice and the odd opening for sanctuary from the wild animals in caves. The familiarity of the shape, I think comes from the angles of the red tiled roofing, akin to the rocky slopes of our places of refuge.
This is also very modern, or perhaps what inspired Escher to conjure up impossibly angled architecture in his famous drawings.
Asher
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Maggie Terlecki
Moderator
Looks like an amazing place to live. So much history and the older buildings give a real sense of coziness and warmth. Beautiful!
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Antonio Correia
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This was photographed some time ago in a visit to existing Convento in Arrábida Mountain just near Setubal.
Perhaps you will be able to read about the Convent using the automatic translation from Chrome...
Curiously, I realize now that I have quite a lack of photographs from Setubal...
I see it everyday, you know...
Perhaps you will be able to read about the Convent using the automatic translation from Chrome...
Curiously, I realize now that I have quite a lack of photographs from Setubal...
I see it everyday, you know...