Guess the City

Marseille

is it though

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

What ARE those square button type things on the wall? Are they painted on? Either way: why?

(... former wall cemetery and those were name plaques? They're too far apart for that) (nevermind, just thinking out loud and having no idea)

https://i.postimg.cc/4xYh0F8Y/20210905-222036.jpg

2

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

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.

Very distinctive street light poles. Also weird to see electrical wires strung light pole to light pole on left side of the picture.

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

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.

Newcastle-on-Tyne

Those streetlights look suspiciously British, could it be Gibraltar?

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.

I was wondering about Melilla or Ceuta, but again can't find an exact counterpart for the mountainous background

With French cars could it be Algeria?

https://i.postimg.cc/wTmHp4Nn/Screenshot-2021-09-09-at-13-16-41.png

3

I have no idea really but that sky is certainly (west?) African in its depth and intensity.

It isn't Oran or Constantine, the streetlights are different.

These car plates look European to me

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.

I feel like if I could just read what's on the green billboard in the last picture everything would be revealed

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 Galcerán
https://maps.app.goo.gl/VgKFVozixEDqUsNc6

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).

nice one! I gave up too soon with Santa Cruz.

Santa Cruz!

The original streetviews are just to the South of this one, same road

thread title is "Guess the City", not "provide coordinates of this photograph" or "give complete supporting evidence for identifying the city" ...

it's more fun this way imho

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.

Yeah finding the actual spot is where the fun is

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

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

Still puzzled by the purpose of that wall

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).

https://i.postimg.cc/cJJhqkrd/20210906-131043.jpg

Lanyard Man

gdynia?

ok apparently that is 100% not Gdynia

ok apparently that is 100% not Gdynia

R.....ers P....t

doesn't ring a bell & that RP logo isn't easily found on google either (or I'm doing it wrong)

can't find it either on google or yandex.

sign probably saying 'SALE' in the window suggests an english speaking country.

https://theme.zdassets.com/theme_assets/2318861/9d666b2987e9f09a521c620f59c8ffd68c6ee5c4.png

lots of them in germany, or there were, looks like the company is no longer in business.

Schadowstraße 68, 40212 Düsseldorf, Germany

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Schadowstraße+68,+40212+Düsseldorf,+Germany/@51.2273308,6.7857975,3a,75y,296.34h,86.87t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3tuRtOTIrq9HOQySOLZDyQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x47b8ca24682ae431:0x4680db253e558437!8m2!3d51.2274595!4d6.7855575

I think it might be a Uniqlo now.

damn, just found it myself!

sign probably saying 'SALE' in the window suggests an english speaking country.

The anglicism 'Sale' replaced the German words 'Sommerschlussverkauf' and 'Winterschlussverkauf' a while ago, much to the relief of German sign-writers.

I recognised the store logo, but was beaten to the punch on Düsseldorf.

The premises in Schadowstraße is now an opticians, I think: https://ergra-low-vision.de/

nice find!

The anglicism 'Sale' replaced the German words 'Sommerschlussverkauf' and 'Winterschlussverkauf' a while ago

I thought it was Sonderangebot!

Good find, but I was also looking for the identity of the man