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Armenia and Chile are a lot more attractive than I suspected. May be Germany is not as attractive, but anyway.
I tried to get pictures from each and every of the 16 "Länder" (states) forming the Federal Republic of Germany (their names are in brackets). The pictures are sorted approximately from North to South.


The rock "Lange Anna" on Helgoland (Schleswig-Holstein), island in the North Sea, British from 1807 to 1890. Ironically, the text of the German national anthem ("Deutschlandlied") has been written here in 1841 while the island was British. And the melody of this anthem has been composed by an Austrian in Austria. So our national anthem is one of the few products considered as "Made in Germany" that are nearly completely made abroad.


St. Michaelis church, called "Michel", a symbol of Hamburg (Hamburg)


Castle of Schwerin, capital of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)


Roland, a symbol of Bremen (Bremen)


I knew that you are interested in female forms only, not in architecture Hannover (Niedersachsen)


Einsteinturm in Potsdam (Brandenburg)


Reichstag, seat of the "Bundestag" (German parliament); Berlin (Berlin)


Brandenburger Tor, symbol of the German unity and reunification; Berlin (Berlin). The monument belonged to East Germany. It is seen from East to West here. 50 meters behind it passed the Berlin wall, that surrounded West Berlin.


Market place of Halle (Sachsen-Anhalt)


Dome of Cologne (Nordrhein-Westfalen) with the railway bridge over the river Rhein


Externsteine (Nordrhein-Westfalen)


Wartburg, somehow a national monument with many connections to German history. E.g. Martin Luther, founder of the protestantic church, lived there for a while. (Thüringen)


Frauenkirche, Dresden (Saxony). The church had been destroyed during the firestorm following the Allied air raids in 1945. It was kept as a ruin during the whole communist period and reconstructed only 10 years ago.


Dresden (Saxony) with the river of Elbe by night. Dresden is sometimes called the Florence of the Elbe.


Augustusplatz in Leipzig (Saxony) with the Gewandhaus. Leipzig was the town where the resistance against the communist regime in 1989 was the strongest. It was the working place of Johann Sebastian Bach and the birth place of Katja Kassin (you will know only the latter).


Teufelstisch near Kaltenbach (Rheinland-Pfalz)


Skyline of Frankfurt (Hessen)

River of Saar near Mettlach (Saarland)



Castle of Lichtenstein (Baden-Württemberg)


Castle of Neuschwanstein (Bayern, or Bavaria in English)

Greetings
Bernd

House of Parliament, London SW1.

"Big Ben" clock (close-up).

Buckingham Palace - the Queen's London residence.

St Paul's Cathedral - London.

Tower Bridge, London.

Tower Bridge - London shown above at night.




The Tower of London.

  


Marble Arch  - London.

St. Pancras Station (near Kings Cross).

Royal Albert Hall, Kensington, London.

Nelson's Column, Trafalgar Square  - London.

London Palladium Theatre, Argyll Street, London.  

Ritz Hotel  - London.

From the Web:

"Puttin' On the Ritz" is a song written by Irving Berlin. He wrote it in May 1927 and first published it on December 2, 1929.^[1] It was registered as an unpublished song August 24, 1927 and again on July 27, 1928.^[1] It was introduced by Harry Richmanand chorus in the musical film Puttin' On the Ritz (1930). According to The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin, this was the first song in film to be sung by an interracial ensemble.^[1] The title derives from the slang expression "to put on the Ritz", meaning to dress very fashionably. This expression was itself inspired by the opulent Ritz Hotel in London.

Fred Astaire sang and danced "Puttin' on The Ritz" in the 1946 colour film "Blue Skies" co-starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire:

Prudential Assurance Building in Holborn, London EC1

Swan & Edgar building, 10 Piccadilly, London W1

Langham Hotel, Portland Place, London W1.

 The Langham Hotel (at night).

Selfridges Department Store, Oxford Street, London W1

Harrods Department Store, Knightsbridge, London SW1.




Regent's Park  - London.

and some more recent buildings...



Post Office Tower and London Eye (to the right of the picture.

The London Eye (close-up)

City Hall, Southwark, London SE1.

"The Ark", Hammersmith, London W6

Wembley Football Stadium with arch (new stadium above and below photos)

Tottenham Hotspur Football Stadium (new) - Above & below photos:

Sale wrote:

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Dear Silvia Saint Fans,

My Name is Sale and I am from Vienna, Austria! Brought on this idea by Victorandss, I started this topic where Silvia Saint-Fans can place some pictures of their hometowns!

Below you can see the big fairground-wheel, that we call "Riesenrad"! It is part of our "Prater"(like Disneyworld but much smaller). At least I will place some more pictures in the future!



"Riesenrad"



A Cabinet of the "Riesenrad"


I would also like to send greetings to the Silvia Saint Fans all over the world!

Greetings from Austria,
Sale

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The big fairground-wheel that Sale in Austria posted up to start off this topic in January 2010 is of course well-known to the world because of the famous film called "The Third Man" (1949) starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten and Alida Valli.

This film "The Third Man" also made "The Zither Song" (an instrumental played by Anton Karas, a restaurant owner in Vienna who played the zither in the film.

The music can be heard in part of the opening scene of the film as below:

Later in the film, the playing seems impossible and other musicians claimed that no one could play like this!  In fact, some sound magic of double-tracking was used by the film company.

The following is on the Web:

"The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir, directed by Carol Reed.^[1] One night after a long day of filming The Third Man on location in Vienna, Reed and cast members Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli and Orson Welles had dinner and retired to a wine cellar. In the bistro, which retained the atmosphere of the pre-war days, they heard the zither music of Anton Karas, a 40-year-old musician who was playing there just for the tips. Reed immediately realized that this was the music he wanted for his film. Karas spoke only German, which no one in Reed's party spoke, but fellow customers translated Reed's offer to the musician that he compose and perform the soundtrack for The Third Man. Karas was reluctant since it meant traveling to England, but he finally accepted. Karas wrote and recorded the 40 minutes of music heard in The Third Man over a six-week period, after the entire film was translated for him at Shepperton Studios.^[2]:449450

The composition that became famous as "The Third Man Theme" had long been in Karas's repertoire, but he had not played it in 15 years. "When you play in a café, nobody stops to listen," Karas said. "This tune takes a lot out of your fingers. I prefer playing 'Wien, Wien', the sort of thing one can play all night while eating sausages at the same time."^[3]

So prominent is "The Third Man Theme" that the image of its performance on the vibrating strings of the zither provides the background for the film's main title sequence.^[4]

The theme became popular with audiences soon after the film's premiere, and more than half a million copies of "The Third Man Theme" record were sold within weeks of the film's release."

Dear friends,

We have a nice collection of magnificent and unusual buildings to date in this topic.

There are more members in different countries I am sure who still view the Forum and it would be interesting to see some of their home cities architecture and historical buildings.

Happy New Year and stay in good health.

Vic   3 January 2021.

Good to see that Iran focuses on a sex bomb instead of a nuclear one now.