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New on 500px : The Secrets Of The Tunisian Doors (Bill Cowles’s dedication) by Nedim1968 by Nedim1968

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A photo dedicated to my friend Bill Cowles who loves blue doors!
This is a continuation of the series dedicated to the traditional Tunisian doors, second episode reserved for the symbolic signs and the height of the doors.
In natural wood, red, green, yellow but above all blue, the magnificent doors of the Tunisian houses are present throughout Tunisia with their two leaves under a rounded vault which is sometimes supported by carved columns. They can’t leave indifferent with their decoration made of signs and symbols. The nails are assembled to form geometric patterns or “happiness”, such as the fish or the hand of Fatma very often present and remain the prettiest decors of the Tunisian streets. Today, the motifs are more numerous, ranging from harmonious geometric shapes to floral and fanciful motifs.
It’s no coincidence that the front door is traditionally low; it forces the guest to bow and thus mark his respect for the places and the occupants.
They reveal their mystery as a boundary between the inside and the outside, as an opening towards another, a better world, which could well be the one promised to us “The Gate of Paradise”, bears hope in one eternal life.

The photo of this Blue Door is taken in the Medina of Tunis, between the Mosque Hammouda Pacha and the Great Mosque Zitouna, street of the Kasbah.
Good Evening my dear friends and Happy 14 July!
You are always welcome in Tunisia! All doors are wide open!
Thanks for all support and all comments! I really appreciate!!!

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New on 500px : The Secrets Of The Tunisian Doors (Bill Cowles’s dedication) by Nedim1968 by Nedim1968

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A photo dedicated to my friend Bill Cowles who loves blue doors!
This is a continuation of the series dedicated to the traditional Tunisian doors, second episode reserved for the symbolic signs and the height of the doors.
In natural wood, red, green, yellow but above all blue, the magnificent doors of the Tunisian houses are present throughout Tunisia with their two leaves under a rounded vault which is sometimes supported by carved columns. They can’t leave indifferent with their decoration made of signs and symbols. The nails are assembled to form geometric patterns or “happiness”, such as the fish or the hand of Fatma very often present and remain the prettiest decors of the Tunisian streets. Today, the motifs are more numerous, ranging from harmonious geometric shapes to floral and fanciful motifs.
It’s no coincidence that the front door is traditionally low; it forces the guest to bow and thus mark his respect for the places and the occupants.
They reveal their mystery as a boundary between the inside and the outside, as an opening towards another, a better world, which could well be the one promised to us “The Gate of Paradise”, bears hope in one eternal life.

The photo of this Blue Door is taken in the Medina of Tunis, between the Mosque Hammouda Pacha and the Great Mosque Zitouna, street of the Kasbah.
Good Evening my dear friends and Happy 14 July!
You are always welcome in Tunisia! All doors are wide open!
Thanks for all support and all comments! I really appreciate!!!

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New on 500px : The Secrets Of The Tunisian Doors (Bill Cowles’s dedication) by Nedim1968 by Nedim1968

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A photo dedicated to my friend Bill Cowles who loves blue doors!
This is a continuation of the series dedicated to the traditional Tunisian doors, second episode reserved for the symbolic signs and the height of the doors.
In natural wood, red, green, yellow but above all blue, the magnificent doors of the Tunisian houses are present throughout Tunisia with their two leaves under a rounded vault which is sometimes supported by carved columns. They can’t leave indifferent with their decoration made of signs and symbols. The nails are assembled to form geometric patterns or “happiness”, such as the fish or the hand of Fatma very often present and remain the prettiest decors of the Tunisian streets. Today, the motifs are more numerous, ranging from harmonious geometric shapes to floral and fanciful motifs.
It’s no coincidence that the front door is traditionally low; it forces the guest to bow and thus mark his respect for the places and the occupants.
They reveal their mystery as a boundary between the inside and the outside, as an opening towards another, a better world, which could well be the one promised to us “The Gate of Paradise”, bears hope in one eternal life.

The photo of this Blue Door is taken in the Medina of Tunis, between the Mosque Hammouda Pacha and the Great Mosque Zitouna, street of the Kasbah.
Good Evening my dear friends and Happy 14 July!
You are always welcome in Tunisia! All doors are wide open!
Thanks for all support and all comments! I really appreciate!!!

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New on 500px : Teatro romano de Mérida by neobit by neobit

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Durante los años 15 y 16 a.C. Marco Agripa promovió la construcción de un teatro en la ciudad de Augusta Emérita. Un espacio que en su origen tenía cabida para 6.000 espectadores, y donde los romanos disfrutaban de juegos escénicos.
A finales del siglo I y a principios del siglo II se produjeron varias remodelaciones del teatro, en las que se construyó la actual fachada o frente de escena y la calzada que rodea el monumento. El edificio está compuesto por un graderío semicircular de hormigón romano revestido de granito. Delante se encuentra la escena para las actuaciones, con un pavimento de mármol, además de tres puertas y varias estatuas.
El teatro, junto con el anfiteatro, se encuentra dentro del conjunto arqueológico de Mérida, uno de los principales y más extensos de España y declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco en 1993.
Un espacio que acoge cada verano las representaciones del Festival de Teatro Clásico de Mérida. Una cita que devuelve cada verano todo el esplendor y la función original a este edificio romano que actualmente tiene capacidad para albergar 3.000 personas.
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Over the years 15 and 16 BC Marcus Agrippa promoted the construction of a theatre in the town of Augusta Emérita. A space that originally had a capacity for 6,000 spectators, and where the Romans enjoyed staged games.
Towards the end of the 1st century AD and the beginning of the second century AD, the theatre was refurbished several times, and the current fagade or stage front was built along with the road around the monument. The building is comprised of a semicircular grandstand made of Roman concrete and clad in granite. The stage for the performances is at the front, paved in marble, as well as three doors and several statues.
The theatre and the amphitheatre are part of the archaeological site of Mérida, one of the most important and largest in Spain, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1993.
Every summer the theatre is the venue for the performances of the Mérida Classical Theatre Festival. An event that brings all the splendour and its original function back to this Roman building which can now seat 3,000 people.
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