Famous Landmarks!

[lady_windermere]

Stolen from petzipellepingo and married_n_mich.

I've long been delighted and impressed that the people who read my journal originate from far and wide. What I'd love is for you to comment below, and tell me which region/country you are from. And I'd love if you could add to that one particular thing that makes your part of the world unique. It might be music, a TV show, a recipe, a landmark, a specific historical fact. Anything you are proud of, whether other people might be aware of it or not.

Ok, I will give you a couple of items from where I live in Dumbarton. We do get a lot of tourists, especially by the lochs and Bens, so just a couple and pictures behind the cut.


First, in Dumbarton is Dumbarton Castle on Dumbarton Rock!





For a potted history Click Here

Mary Queen of Scots was the most famous person to have stayed.

Now, for our other famous landmark Loch Lomond.




There is so much history around Loch Lomond, I couldn't find just the right site to link to. This is taken from Ben Lomond, and shows some of the 22 islands on the loch.


Anyone else?

Comments

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

I'm currently from New England and have been for a decade. Connecticut to be exact. Some of the gorgeous things we have in my area are Gillette's Castle, built by William Gillette, the first writer to bring Sherlock Holmes to the stage.

(http://pics.livejournal.com/ladypeyton/pic/000263y4/)

We also have Yale University, one of the oldest and most respected universities in the US.

(http://pics.livejournal.com/ladypeyton/pic/000275zp/)

I'm blessed enough to work there on one of the prettier streets.

There's also, if you're looking for outdoor pretty, The Devil's Hopyard:

(http://pics.livejournal.com/ladypeyton/pic/000287cz/)

Where, according to stories that likely originated with early Connecticut settlers, the "potholes" at the base of the falls were created by the devil when he accidentally dipped his tail in the water. Outraged, the devil hopped all about, leaving indentations with his fiery hooves although we know today that they were caused by erosion. (this paragraph was totally and completely plagiarized from this source (http://hartford.about.com/cs/attractions/a/aachapmanfalls.htm)

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

Oh what lovely landmarks! I especially like the The Devil's Hopyard, as I am a sucker for the great outdoors!

[love-the-light.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm from Sweden. But I gonna post as a sorta reply to this in my journal instead because my browser won't let me put pictures in comments..
:(

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

Oh will look out for it!

[vaeltaa.livejournal.com]

I'm from the city of Trondheim, Norway's third largest city. I really love our amazing Nidaros Cathedral;



And also Munkholmen, which is a tiny island located out in the fjord here that was used for executions by vikings in the past, and you can only get there by boat.



It's also been a monastery and a prison. I've been there loads of times, it's a popular tourist attraction as well - particularly the lower levels of the fort where prisoners were kept. There's a whole bunch of these kinds of places around here, and I love them and their history. :D

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

Oh Beautiful, thank You for sharing these!

[starscythe.livejournal.com]

I live in the city of St Albans

We get a lot of tourists because of our Roman ruins and Cathedral (St Albans Abbey):



From Wikipedia: It was the first major town on the old Roman road of Watling Street for travellers heading north and became the Roman city of Verulamium. After the Roman withdrawal, and prior to becoming known as St Albans, the town was called Verlamchester or Wæclingacaester.

We have a park by the Cathedral called Verulamium which has remains of the Roman wall.

I didn't know this, but according to Wikipedia -> The Lady Chapel in the Abbey itself was used as a location for at least one scene in Sean Connery's 1995 film First Knight, whilst the nave of the Abbey was used during a coronation scene as a substitute for Westminster Abbey in Johnny English starring Rowan Atkinson. The 19th century gatehouse of the former prison near the mainline station appeared in the title sequence of the TV series Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker. The 2001 film Birthday Girl starring Ben Chaplin and Nicole Kidman was also partly filmed in St Albans. More recently, several scenes from the upcoming film Incendiary, starring Michelle Williams, Ewan McGregor and Matthew Macfadyen, were filmed in St Albans, focusing in particular on the Abbey and the Abbey Gateway.

AND! I didn't know this either - St Albans was the name of a planet in the cult science-fiction television series Firefly. Oooh!

St Alban himself was said to have been beheaded on the hill where the Cathedral now stands and his head rolled down until it hit a spring, which gave the hill the name 'Holywell hill.'

This is so interesting, I'm gonna re-post on my LJ!

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

Wow the Abby looks great! It is an interesting Meme, I just couldn't resist!

[married-n-mich.livejournal.com]

Pics! I love pics. They're wonderful. Thanks for sharing.

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

My pleasure! I am enjoying looking at the posts from other people doing the meme as well!

[married-n-mich.livejournal.com]

Me too :o)

[angelswilliam.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! I love castles! Thanks for sharing that lovely pic.

Okay. I'm from the midwestern USA. The actual village I'm from was founded by a general in the Union Army. His house is now a museum. We have a river running under our main street that was used for the Underground Railroad. Several of the larger houses in town, which were (presumedly) owned by people wealthy enough to feed fugitive slaves, have tunnel entrances that have now been bricked over. I hope that, one day, someone will get some funding and pay the homeowners to restore the Underground Railroad tunnels in our town so that we can learn more about that part of our history. It's not as if it's dark history; we were on the Union side of the Underground Railroad, not the Confederate side.

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

My pleasure!

Oh such a wonderful piece of history from your part of the world! Yes, it would be good to retrace you ancestors steps!

[twilightofmagic.livejournal.com]

Full of atmosphere, those pics. The Loch Lomond one is very mysterious. Largs to me always means the sight of those red stone houses from the ferry. Do ferries on the firth of Clyde leave from Largs?

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

Do ferries on the firth of Clyde leave from Largs?

No, Largs is on the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean. Not the river Clyde. Sorry should've said that Largs is South East of the Firth of Clyde.

[moon-chylde.livejournal.com]

Lovely pictures.

That's a nifty idea. I may do that on my own journal for tomorrow's entry. I'll have to hunt up some suitable pics.

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

I will look forward to reading your post :-)

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I currently live in a NJ suburb, but I still consider NYC my hometown. So I won't bore you with pics, because who doesn't know the Big Apple?

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

Oh I have "Apple of My Eye" by Helene Hanff, who took me on a tour of New York, so I feel I know it quite well. It was published in 1977, so has som older ones, and ones which were tragically lost as well.

[bmblbee.livejournal.com]

I am floored by the beauty of the others pics. Just wonderful.
You know I'm from a very small village (less than 800) in
Ohio. I live on the shores of Atwood Lake, a resort area.
I always say "When the main street outside your house is a dirt
road, you know you live in the boonies." That's me.

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

Oh yes, the pictures are beautiful! It is lovely to see where other people live. You have a lake, which attracts tourists, so you have something beautiful to post!