Fire!

Time flies, March already. Time for the City Daily Photo theme day: fire. As always, more theme photos to enjoy right... here.

 

The cat with the pearl earring

A mural in Florence.

More b&w here.
 

The noble house of Rohan

The Rohan were nobles from Brittany. 4 of them became prince-archbishops of Strasbourg. More info here. 

Couldn't find out who the dude is on the photo, I can only suppose he is one of them.
 

Ponts Couverts

A part of the 13th century fortifications in the Petite France area.
 

WTF???

Loving a murderer? Sick  stickers seen in town. Guess some seeing him as a hero, a modern day Robin Hood. Nah, he is just a killer, even if his victim was an absolute asshole.
 

A Monday mural

By Dan23. Part of a larger mural, unfortunately tagged over. 

More murals here.
 

Waiting for the shop to open

Well nourished cats of Istanbul.
 

A weekend reflection

A public toilet at the international coach station.

More weekend reflections here.
 

Wedding in black and white

Spotted in front of the Milano Duomo a while ago.

More b&w right...here.
 

Are you looking at me???

 

Going places

 

A holiday photo...

... to fight off the cold and the wet.
 

Pink bicycle

 

Prickly

Don't touch!
 

A weekend reflection

Desigual HQ, Barcelona.

More weekend reflections here.
 

Marsaxlokk

I've been there, obviously, but don't ask me to pronounce the name of that nice seaside village in Malta...

More b&w here.

 

On top

The roof of a shopping mall nearby, on the other side of the boarder , in Germany.

Always leave your broom outside...

... when entering a building!
 

3000

 I so need holidays! Hopefully in May.

Spot the kitty

 

Last summer

 

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 Above the entrance of a building. No further info found.

El Gat

Fernando Botero's cat, el gat in Catalan, a famous landmark of Barcelona since 1987. Situated in the Rambla del Raval since 2003, after a few years of wandering through the town.

More b&w here.

PS: Still having problems commenting on your blogs with my Google account, I might be able to do it with  my url.
 

Monty

Python. Be afraid, be very afraid! LOL
 

Il Castello

Il Castello Sforzesco, the 15th century home of the Sforza family, the Dukes of Milan. Milan(o) is an excellent place to be!
 

Gerwerstub

The old tannery workshop, since 1572, a protected historical monument since 1927. A restaurant nowadays in the Petite France area.
 

Sunshine

A little sunshine in the Petite France area.

 

Early birds

We're having an unseasonably warm winter, even the storks came back very early from their migration.

 

February theme day: motors

Bird of thunder!

More theme day posts and photos right...HERE.
 

Headshop

Amsterdam, a while ago, just another typical "coffeeshop". No coffee available though...

More b&w here.
 

UPDATE: for some reason, I'm not able to comment on most of your post, don't know why... Trying to find out.

The victims of the Shoah in the Lower Rhine area

To commemorate the 80 years since the liberation of the survivors of the Auschwitz death camp by the Red Army, the Strasbourg municipality created this memory garden, where the old synagogue stood, Inaugurated on January 27th 2025. Below, a model of the old synagogue:

Burnt to the ground by Hitler Youth in 1940.
 
 

Menorah

 

A menorah  at the Dohany Street synagogue in Budapest. 600.000 hungarian jews were murdered during WW2.

A walk in the park

 

Solar queen

Weird things you can buy in Strasbourg. Or not. A little outdated, innit, your maj?
 

A weekend reflection

At the Petite France. More weekend reflections here.
 

Lunchtime

One of 1552 restaurants in Strasbourg...
 

Ford

Detail of a 1940es Ford. More b&w right...here.

The whole car, in colors:

 

Little lace street

Petite rue des dentelles. No lacemakers here, it is the corruption of an old medieval German name, Spitze, meaning lace or angle.
 

Europa

The European Parliament in Strasbourg.
 

Soap street

Nice and empty street, after the millions of tourists in December... Saponarii, soap makers, were working here from the 16th century.
 

Bunny

 More Monday murals here

Chicken tonight?

 

Le tram

A local, but binational, tramway, linking the Strasbourg greater area to Germany. Many trams, many different designs.
 

Walking

More b&w right... here.
 

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The truly sumptuous Palermo cathedral, built in 1185 AD by Normans.

 

The band, part 2

 

The band

Having a break in Cefalù, Sicily, Italy.
 

The old fountain