I've been to Switzerland a couple of times, not to Basel but it felt Swiss and Zelda Zonk mentioning middle European solidified that thought so I got to image searching Swiss cities' railway stations
― ignore the blue line (or something), Thursday, 2 September 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/3NGsVn86/20210903-092828.jpg
Friday
― cherry blossom, Friday, 3 September 2021 08:34 (two years ago) link
Mediterranean vibe. Some walled city in Andalusia?
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 3 September 2021 09:02 (two years ago) link
Getting a Napoli vibe from the wall but idk.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 3 September 2021 10:18 (two years ago) link
word on the metal grate bottom left - UNIECO ?
― StanM, Friday, 3 September 2021 13:22 (two years ago) link
REK (?) graffiti tag
― willem, Friday, 3 September 2021 13:33 (two years ago) link
graffiti has a distinctive e/E it it is an E
― StanM, Friday, 3 September 2021 13:39 (two years ago) link
iF it is
― StanM, Friday, 3 September 2021 13:40 (two years ago) link
Shape of the tall doorway on left looks distinctive but not sure how to search for that shape.
― that's not my post, Friday, 3 September 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
https://www.homestratosphere.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/30-types-of-architectural-arches-diagram-chart-aug16.jpg
― StanM, Friday, 3 September 2021 14:23 (two years ago) link
it's not exactly in there - still looking
― StanM, Friday, 3 September 2021 14:27 (two years ago) link
it's like a clothes hanger + a shoulder flat arch type of thing, like ? I give up :-(
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0253/5214/2899/products/shoulder-flat-door-arch-kits_652x470_crop_center.jpg
― StanM, Friday, 3 September 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
Marseille
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 3 September 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link
is it though
― StanM, Saturday, 4 September 2021 04:38 (two years ago) link
Doorway doesn't look French to me, although mountain in the background looks similar to the one outside Marseille. Old man with stick is a real generic Mediterranean old geezer, could be French, Spanish, southern Italian... the other people look like tourists, and Marseille isn't really a tourist town
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 4 September 2021 08:53 (two years ago) link
What ARE those square button type things on the wall? Are they painted on? Either way: why?
― StanM, Saturday, 4 September 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
(... former wall cemetery and those were name plaques? They're too far apart for that) (nevermind, just thinking out loud and having no idea)
― StanM, Saturday, 4 September 2021 17:01 (two years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/4xYh0F8Y/20210905-222036.jpg
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― cherry blossom, Sunday, 5 September 2021 21:22 (two years ago) link
Looks quite a bit like Santa Cruz de Tenerife but I can't find any exact matches with that peak although one is very similar
― ignore the blue line (or something), Sunday, 5 September 2021 23:26 (two years ago) link
Very distinctive decorative touches to the street lights, although I wouldn't know how to search for that. The wall is intriguing, looks like there are modern buildings directly behind it so it's not like it's encircling a cemetery or castle or whatever. And it doesn't quite look like a city wall either.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 6 September 2021 00:20 (two years ago) link
Very distinctive street light poles. Also weird to see electrical wires strung light pole to light pole on left side of the picture.
― that's not my post, Monday, 6 September 2021 02:05 (two years ago) link
This should be gettable but I'm not getting it. Best I can come up with is that it feels Mediterranean, but doesn't feel French, my gut feeling is somewhere Spanish
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 6 September 2021 03:09 (two years ago) link
The black car and the reddish one driving away from the camera are both French (Peugeot 307 and Renault Teepee, around mid-2000s), but of course these cars are popular eveywhere in Europe. The car driving towards the camera is a VW Polo (2010ish), which isn't any help at all.
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 6 September 2021 14:17 (two years ago) link
Newcastle-on-Tyne
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 6 September 2021 15:49 (two years ago) link
Those streetlights look suspiciously British, could it be Gibraltar?
― Neil S, Monday, 6 September 2021 16:01 (two years ago) link
I don't think I can find an angle of the rock of Gibraltar that looks like that - guessing no to that one. Santa Cruz (Tenerife) looked better but couldn't find a ridge shaped quite like these pics either.
― StanM, Monday, 6 September 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link
I was wondering about Melilla or Ceuta, but again can't find an exact counterpart for the mountainous background
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 6 September 2021 21:50 (two years ago) link
With French cars could it be Algeria?
― nickn, Monday, 6 September 2021 22:33 (two years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/wTmHp4Nn/Screenshot-2021-09-09-at-13-16-41.png
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― cherry blossom, Thursday, 9 September 2021 12:26 (two years ago) link
I have no idea really but that sky is certainly (west?) African in its depth and intensity.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 9 September 2021 13:27 (two years ago) link
It isn't Oran or Constantine, the streetlights are different.
― Kind regards, Anus (the table is the table), Thursday, 9 September 2021 15:51 (two years ago) link
These car plates look European to me
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 9 September 2021 20:03 (two years ago) link
The huge mountain at the end of a flat urban road is quite distinctive, I looked at a few places in Italy near mountains but they all had extensive foothills where the roads petered out into farm tracks & vineyards.
― ledge, Thursday, 9 September 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
I feel like if I could just read what's on the green billboard in the last picture everything would be revealed
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 9 September 2021 20:20 (two years ago) link
Just as I suspected, cherry blossom has done that thing were guessing the city on the guess the city thread isn't enough
But I was right three days ago and have finally found the spot in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
17 Puente Galceránhttps://maps.app.goo.gl/VgKFVozixEDqUsNc6
― ignore the blue line (or something), Thursday, 9 September 2021 20:57 (two years ago) link
I was going to mention that the big palm on the left is a Canary Island date palm, but those are commonly grown elsewhere too (I have one in my back yard).
― nickn, Thursday, 9 September 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
nice one! I gave up too soon with Santa Cruz.
― StanM, Thursday, 9 September 2021 21:27 (two years ago) link
Santa Cruz!
The original streetviews are just to the South of this one, same road
― cherry blossom, Friday, 10 September 2021 02:50 (two years ago) link
thread title is "Guess the City", not "provide coordinates of this photograph" or "give complete supporting evidence for identifying the city" ...
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 10 September 2021 03:06 (two years ago) link
it's more fun this way imho
― StanM, Friday, 10 September 2021 05:44 (two years ago) link
This way does sort of reduce it to either knowing it at first glance or leaving it to those with the time/tenacity to trawl through Google Maps. Still a great thread, either way.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 10 September 2021 07:33 (two years ago) link
Yeah finding the actual spot is where the fun is
― a (waterface), Friday, 10 September 2021 12:21 (two years ago) link
It's cherry blossom's thread so i'm fine to play by their rules but we should probably establish that just guessing the city doesn't cut it anymore or we get incidents where people assume a city has been ruled out because it was guessed and unacknowledged
― ignore the blue line (or something), Friday, 10 September 2021 13:06 (two years ago) link
So that first wall was this: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Asociaci%C3%B3n+Familiar+Pro+Discapacitados+Intelectuales+de+Tenerife/@28.4628484,-16.256673,3a,75y,252.43h,101.03t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sy5TBBAe9pNJ2t_3eJu4D9A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0xc41cc8349ea8fbb:0xc3fdcea7689829e!8m2!3d28.4626662!4d-16.2570545
― StanM, Friday, 10 September 2021 13:42 (two years ago) link
Still puzzled by the purpose of that wall
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 10 September 2021 13:46 (two years ago) link
I kind of like having the guess be supported by some kind of visual evidence. Makes it more challenging that way and also makes sure the thread doesn't devolve into people just throwing out names of a bunch of random cities (not that this has happened).
― o. nate, Friday, 10 September 2021 21:55 (two years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/cJJhqkrd/20210906-131043.jpg
Lanyard Man
― cherry blossom, Monday, 13 September 2021 07:50 (two years ago) link
gdynia?
― kinder, Monday, 13 September 2021 07:54 (two years ago) link
ok apparently that is 100% not Gdynia
― kinder, Monday, 13 September 2021 08:01 (two years ago) link