Rocks in a fountain
Showing posts with label fountain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fountain. Show all posts
2011-08-10
Cascade messine
In the current Google maps satellite photos, this is still a car park, but Metz has, in fact, thrown out the cars and given the square over to pedestrians. Metz gets better every day.
2011-02-17
Fresh water
Bietzen Spa: “According to the Deutscher Bäderverband e.V. (German Spa Association), the spring is of a sodium calcium chloride water, which contains significant amounts of magnesium, hydrogen carbonate and sulphate.” Apparently, it is supposed to be good for you.
2010-08-20
Napoleon's Fountain
As French troops were occupying the east of the Rhine after 1792, the citizens of Blieskastel were inspired with revolutionary zeal to construct an obelisk with a snake around it in honour of the new French ruler. The inscription reads: A NAPOLEON premier Empereur des Francais. Le Canton de Bliescastel le 28e floréal an XII. That date is May 18, 1804 when Napoleon was declared Emperor.
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