A Year in Pictures – Barbican Model

[swan_tower]

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The old/tourist part of Kraków has a lot of these things: little bronze models of the famous attractions, with plaques telling you something about the site. They’re really handy, especially when (as is the case with this model) they show you what the place looked like back in the day. The moat around the Barbican is gone now, except in this pint-sized version.

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Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

How odd, we have those here, but not anywhere that's very touristy, just in a random neighborhood.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Funky. Is it just random buildings that get modeled? Is it part of a map or something?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Old buildings, in an old neighborhood down by the river.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. So it's not just "here's a bronze model of the local Starbucks." :-)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

No, it's "here's what used to be here before we tore it down and built the Starbucks."

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Oh.

Oh dear.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Some of them are still there, and some have been replaced by things more interesting than Starbucks. But.