Alex Gracia - bilbao, spain

Ya siento tener que haber echo uso de una foto aérea, (Google)*.

Captando una parte de Bilbao que creo que confirma la regeneración de la ciudad.

Sitio emblemático para una gran parte de todos nosotros. EL SAN MAMES, que pronto morirá, dará lugar a La Nueva Catedral, completando así la forma del nuevo Bilbao.

 El nuevo todavía esta en pañales y utilizando el solar del mismo he colocado el imán “virtual” de “THERE IS A BEAUTY IN THE CITY”

 Gracias.

 * puede que por ser un fotomontaje, con una imagen aérea de Google, no este dentro de los parámetros de el proyecto “THERE IS A  BEAUTY IN THE CITY”.

And am having to have cast using an aerial photo (Google) *. Catching a part of Bilbao which I think confirms the regeneration of the city.  Flagship site for a large part of us all. THE SAN MAMES, soon to die, give rise to the new cathedral, thus completing the shape of the new Bilbao. 

The new still in diapers and using the same solar have placed the magnet "virtual" "THERE IS A BEAUTY IN THE CITY"

Iñaki Garcés - bilbao, spain

Potes, pintxos, cuadrilla, Plaza Nueva.....: ¡¡¡Una combinación perfecta para disfrutar de la belleza de Bilbao!!!

 

Potes, tapas, gang, Plaza Nueva .....: A perfect combination to enjoy the beauty of Bilbao!

Juan Viadas - bilbao, spain

Tonetti, un payaso que siempre saluda y sonríe. Le veo al  pasar todas las mañanas, me mira, a veces creo que me guiña un ojo complice como cuando, de pequeño, estando sentado en los bancos corridos de su circo, pidieron un voluntario. Empujado cariñosamente por mi padre salí a la pista diciéndome: No tengas miedo, solo es una persona disfrazada de payaso que se dedica a la risa y a la carcajada.  Hoy en día me dedico a ello. Gracias a mi padre y a Tonetti. Salud.
Pdtª: Gracias a ustedes por su iniciativa.

Tonetti, a clown who always greets and smiles. I see you passing every morning, looks at me, sometimes I think I complicit winks as when a child, sitting on the benches of the circus, called for a volunteer. Gently pushed by my father went out on the track saying: Do not be afraid, just a person dressed as a clown who is dedicated to laughter and laughter. Today I dedicate to it. Thanks to my father and Tonetti. Health.
Pdt ª: Thank you for your initiative.

Carmen Abalia - bilbao, spain

Es solamente un poco de suelo y la base de una de  las columnas de la Pergola del Parque de Doña Casilda. Todas las demás columnas tienen diferentes  arabescos simbolistas que desde que me fije en ellos cuando era niña me marcaron  de alguna manera por sus formas geométricas y combinaciónes de color al diseñar mis dibujos.

It is only a little soil and base of the columns of the Pergola Doña Casilda Park. All other columns have different arabesques symbolist since I noticed them when I was a child in some way marked by its geometric forms and color combinations when designing my drawings.

Fernando Varas - bilbao, spain

Adjunto les envio la foto de Bilbao "there is BEAUTY in the CITY" . En esta foto he intentado sacar con el iman una calle que poca gente conoce: "Particular del Norte" y la calle "San Francisco".
¡Enhorabuena por the BEAUTY and the CITY!

Attached I send the photo of Bilbao "there is beauty in the City. " In this photo I tried out with the magnet a street that few people know: "Particular of North "and the street, " San Francisco "Congratulations on the Beauty and the CITY!

www.mywayidiomas.com

 

Leire Saavedra - bilbao, spain

Hola me llamo Leire Saavedra , esta es mi foto para el concurso There is beauty in the city.   , el puente Zubizuri y al fondo las dos torres de Isozaki ^^.
He elegido ese lugar , por que me llamo la atención el puente cuando lo construyeron por la superficie de cristal,  la forma de arco inclinado que tiene y las torres que son como rascacielos , muy modernas , siempre que voy a Bilbao y paso por ese paseo me encanta subir al puente y contemplar desde hay toda la ria , sin duda ese es mi lugar favorito .


Hello my name Leire Saavedra, this is my photo for the contest There is beauty in the city. , Zubizuri bridge and two towers in the background ^ ^ Isozaki.
I chose this place, that struck me when I built the bridge over the surface of glass, arched and inclined to have the towers are like skyscrapers, very modern, whenever I go to Bilbao and drive through that ride I love to climb the bridge and watch from there throughout the ria, no doubt this is my favorite.

Javier Sarmiento Lumbreras - bilbao, spain

Mi sitio favorito de Bilbao, son las vistas desde el monte Artxanda, desde el cual, cuando el tiempo nos lo permite, cosa bastante dificil en Bilbao, suelo subir hasta Artxanda para ver lo mas bonito de Bilbao, la ciudad entera !!! Se puede contemplar una panoramica asombrosa de Bilbao desde este punto, por lo que es mi sitio favorito.

My favorite site of Bilbao, are the views from Mount Artxanda, from which, when time allows, which is quite difficult in Bilbao, soil Artxanda go up to see the most beautiful of Bilbao, the entire city! You can enjoy a stunning panoramic view of Bilbao from this point, so it's my favorite.

Leire Artolozaga - bilbao, spain

A couple of years, in an advertisement for the EITB  I saw the Olentzero was in this Hotel.

Provably ...rests there before and after delivering the gifts, I thought. This building is magic for me

I love the colors

  

Not only do I like the museum.  I also like his monument

iratxe oyarbide - bilbao, spain

not strictly within the rules of actually placing the magnet in situ - these images are the first from bilbao, courtesy of iratxe oyarbide.

Years ago this building was a market in which my mistress used to go to buy fruit, eggs, meat, ... today is Brown Civic Center, where I go with my daughter to make the "etxerako Lanaken, reading books, storytelling ...

I've always loved the water ... but in Bilbao, we have everything

there is beauty in the city : bilbao - submissions

there is beauty in the city:bilbao is now well underway and the next series of entries represent the early submissions. The text is imperfect as it's courtesy of google translate, but you get the gist.

there is beauty in the city : the conversation - #6

number 6 in a series of conversations with photoartekomite's Igor Calvo.
This response from Igor

Whether official, unofficial, illegal or semi-illegal, all the spaces, places, spots or corners of our city should be public and of open access to all people.
I have always wondered what the hell signs like that mean, maybe people "NO?!

There is Beauty in the City: the conversation - #5

no. 5 in a series of conversations with photoarte komite's Igor Calvo

unofficial use of urban space #1  - the itinerant hand car wash 

Beauty in the City: March visit to Lincoln

This month I have popped across to Lincoln to see what counts as Beauty there.
Lincoln seems to be a difficult place to get to and also to leave - we had a few problems getting the train back home on the Sunday, but apart from that the city was really beautiful.
One of the things we noticed was how many independent shops there are in the city.
Especially in the Steep Hill area (and yes, the hill lives up to its name.)This sweet shop sold selections of sweets from different eras - and there was a little bar that came down when the shop was too full of children.The there was a little arts and crafts shop which had a very pertinent notice in the window. I was very aware during the day wandering around Lincoln that in London thousands of artists were joining the March for the Alternative - and in many ways I felt perhaps I should have been there. So this may have been why I was picking up on notices like this - and also I liked that Lincoln had a Speakers Corner.Lincoln is also well known for its canal - The Fossdyke is thought to be the oldest man-made navigation in the country, so we thought we would go down and have a look at the Brayford Pool - a naturally occurring pool where the canal meets the River Witham, and take a walk along the canal to see the life going on there.
What is really beautiful is the way the boaters each take care of their outdoor space - creating lovely gardens all along the canal walk.One of my favourites is this 'outsider art' style garden - featuring Twyfords decorative toilet and gnomes.The visit was finished off with a delicious cream tea at Stokes Cafe, a wonderful mock tudor building overlooking the river.

there is beauty in the city:bilbao

there is beauty in the city:bilbao is now well underway - a week into the preparations.
keep up to date here - you may need the translate option

akam qurbany - sulaymanyah, kurdistan

another great image from northern iraq.

zana rasool - sulaymanyah, kurdistan

It is important for me to leave the card in the place, Bardam saray Sulaymanyah, where the majority of people come together for demonstrations in the city center of Sulaymanyah. This place, from its very beginnings, has always been the main meeting point for people to express their views on a political issues.

Sulaymaniyah (Kurdish: سلێمانی / Silêmanî); is a city in Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan. It is the capital of Sulaymaniyah Governorate. Sulaymaniyah is surrounded by the Azmar Range, Goizja Range and the Qaiwan Range in the north east, Baranan Mountain in the south and the Tasluje Hills in the west. The city has a semi-arid climate with very hot and dry summers and very cold winters. Sulaymaniyah served as the historic capital of the Kurdish principality of Baban from 1784 to 1850.

The modern city of Sulaymaniyah was founded on 14 November 1784 by the Kurdish prince Ibrahim Pasha Baban who named it after his father Sulaiman Pasha. Because it was founded as the capital of a powerful Kurdish principality, Sulaymaniyah has developed into a large city with a population of about 1.041.490 people. It is the cultural center of the Sorani-speaking Kurds and an important economic center for Iraqi Kurdistan.

The region of Sulaymaniyah was known as Zamwa prior to its founding in 1784. The capital of the Kurdish Baban principality (1649–1850), before Sulaymaniyah was a territory named "Qalachwalan". At the time of the Babani's rule there were major conflicts between the Safavid dynasty and the Ottoman Empire. Qalachuwalan became a battle ground for the two rivals.^[2]

Being of strategic importance and lying deep inside Safavid territory, there was major concern that Qalachwalan would be attacked and captured if the Babanies did not give the Safavids military support, as both Sultan Mahmud II and Nadir Shah were trying to gain the support of the dispersed Kurdish Emirates.^[2] This obliged Mahmud Pashah of Baban in 1781 to think about moving the center of its Emirate to another safer place. He chose Melkandi, then a village, to construct a number of Serahs for his political and armed units.^[2]

In 1783 Ibrahim Pashah of Baban undertook the rule of the Emirate and began the construction of a new city which would become the capital of the Baban Emirate. In 1784 he finished erecting a number of palaces for trade called Qaiseries and bazars, which were used as baths as well, and began inviting people from the surrounding villages and even Emirates to move over to the newly established city, soon Malkandi which was originally intended to be the city itself instead became one of its quarters and still is today.^[2]

Sulaymaniyah has since its foundation been the center of Kurdish nationalism, and it was from here that Mahmud Barzanji sparked the first rebellion against the British occupation on May 22, 1919 with the arrest of British officials in Sulaymaniyah and declared an independent Kurdistan at that same year. On 10 October 1921, a statement was issued in Sulaymaniyah, then the capital of Kurdistan, to establish the Kingdom of Kurdistan.^[2] Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji, now backed by the British, declared himself as the King of the Kingdom of Kurdistan

The British occupation declared Sheikh Mahmud as king in order to silence the residents of Sulaymaniyah and stop their rebellion, but Sheikh Mahmud acted and ruled independently from the British, and wanted them out of the kingdom. As a result, in the same year, he was exiled for several years to the Andaman islands in India by the British occupation, only to return and raise another unsuccessful rebellion centered in Sulaymaniyah in 1923.

In 1925 mass revolts broke out against British occupation. Winston Churchill argued ‘in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes’ but contrary to recent claims, there is no evidence that it was ever used.^[3] In January 1926 the League of Nations gave the mandate over the territory to Iraq, with the provision for special rights for Kurds. In 1930-1931,Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji made his last unsuccessful attempt to free Kurdistan, he retreated into the mountains, and later signed a peace accord with the Iraqi government and settled in the new Iraq in 1932.

Since liberation in 1991, it has been administered by Kurdish Government and serves as one of the metropolises of Iraqi Kurdistan.

يةكةم خؤثيشاندان لة بةردةركى سةراى سليَمانى 6 ئةييلول1930

ئةم خؤثيشاندانة  داواى سةربةخؤى كوردستانكرا وة خؤثيشاندانةكة دذى بةيةننامةى عصبە الامم بوو كة ناوى كوردى تيانةهاتبوو لة ضوارضيَوةى عراقدا.

barham ismael - sulaymanyah, kurdistan

trying to save an old tree from cutting down

behjat omer abdulla - halabja, iraq

behjat omer abdulla has recently travelled back to iraqi kurdistan and has sent this image.

March 16, 1988 is the commemoration of when the chemical weapon used by the Iraqi government forces in the Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan. This image is just by the gate to the graveyard.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/16/newsid_4304000/4304853.stm

There is Beauty in the City: la conversación - #4

No. 4 in a series of conversations with Bilbao and PhotoArteKomite's Igor Calvo.

alhóndiga from iparraguirre street

It is true that, in those cities sharing an industrial past, there is a longing or sort of melancholy set up in the collective mentality of their citizens with respect to "those years of work, production, development and progress" of the city (despite the huge abuses committed in labor and environmental issues we still could not get rid of completely).

However, it is also true that we must overcome this nostalgia and look forward to a future “of work, production, development and progress”, without ties and having learned from the mistakes of the past.

The new Alhóndiga Bilbao is a good example of that. Maintaining the original structure of one of the most representative buildings in Bilbao, the old industrial wine warehouse (more than 100 years old, remained empty from the 70’s) has been reborn to become a great culture and leisure centre, transcending its walls to spread the surrounding streets with new designs and structures that invite us to rethink about the streets as a collective and creative spaces.

there is beauty in the city : the conversation - #3

Hanley greyhound racing and speedway stadium. closed 1964

the dilemma facing the post-industrial city seems to be how to balance the understandable propensity for nostalgia, without that yearning for a past becoming a suffocator for a future.