Tag: photography

Stay calm and admire the dragon

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If you know Wagner and his Ring cycle, you know about Siegfried and the dragon.  The Nibelungen are said to have had their palace in Worms, in the Upper Rhine Plain.  So no wonder that images of dragons can be found in the town.

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For Monday Murals. More murals and graffiti can be found here.

Old and new

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Worms, a town on the Rhine between Mannheim and Mainz, can trace its origines back to the years B.C. and the citizens were challenged to incorporate old walls and buildings into the modern lay-out throughout the ages.  The town walls we see today were built from the 12th century onwards on foundations dating back to walls of the Roman military garrissn that stood here in the first century A.D.  The big gate to one of the bridges crossing the River Rhine is much newer, and the houses can be anything from a few decades to a few centuries old.

For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge.  More ways, paths, streets, etc. can be found here.