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TheRealTMA said:
San Gimignano, Tuscany. October 2005.

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San Gimignano Tuscany,San Gimignano near Siena & Florence

Visit San Gimignano in Tuscany with our useful travel guide. Learn more about the beautiful medieval town of San Gimignano near Siena and Florence, Tuscany.
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I was there in November 2005 - weird. Great spot.
 
RooFlyer said:
I meant waiting for Tuscany pics in general. From your posted wine and other stuff, I got the impression that you’ve been there a fair bit 😊 I’ve only been there once, to look at a geothermal power station, so am a bit Tuscan deprived.
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ok. More tomorrow!
 
Nova Scotia 2016

Sunset at Mabou on Cape Breton Island

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Cape Breton Drive

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Lookout at the end of the Skyline Trail overlooking the Cape Breton Drive. I am the red blot on the landscape. My wife refused to walk down the multitudinous steps to the lower platform.

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Some more of San Gimignano and an explanation about the towers for @RooFlyer

The small town of San Gimignano lies conveniently on one of most important medieval pilgrimage routes. Its inhabitants exploited the situation well. Made quickly rich by the constant influx of pilgrims, the families of San Gimigano wanted to show off. Each of them yearned to have a palace, but only thing that could be crammed between the tight confines of town walls was a tower. Merchant families of San Gimignano entered an informal contest of building a higher and more splendid stone tower. The law forbade building the tower higher than the main communal one, known as Rognosa. Owning one become a status symbol. At the peak of fashion San Gimignano boasted no less the 72 of them.

Today only 15 remain. In 1348 the Plague devastated the city and it faded in obscurity, until it was rediscovered as tourist attraction in 19th century. The historic center of San Gimignano is protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

A similar Tuscan tower, the Torre Guinigi Tower can be seen in the small town of Lucca, only 77.4 km away via the SS439 and SP11.

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Azerbaijan

The Flame Towers in Baku - fire is a big thing in Azerbaijan - its built on top of natural gas! The Zoroastrians were right at home here. :)

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Here the towers are lit up with flickering flames:

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Just out of Baku, the gas reservoir rock is at the surface and alight

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Upper palaeolithic (~40,000 yrs ago) to middle ages petroglyphs at Gobustan, south of Baku

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An somewhere to tie up your palaeolithic beasties:

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Roman graffiti "The time of Emperor Domitianus Caesar Augustus Germanicus, Lucius Julius Maxim, and Centurion XII of the Lightning Legion"

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Extraordinary cold mud volcanos:

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