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karen anderson I am searching for help to ID a palace picture. The clue is it is a former tribal palace. I have looked through this entire site and others and not found it yet.
To see the pic, I can e-mail you a JPEG or I have it posted on the web.
You can go to www.imagestation.com and log on as me. Username:Rockchk69@aol.com, password: Lucy.
Thank you for any clues you might give me!
Erik Schmidt I've added it to our photoarchive. Just go here; http://castlesontheweb.com/photoarchive/
and look under the 'Palaces and Homes' category. It doesn't show the pic as of last time I looked, but hopefully it can be seen soon.
As for clues, I can only hope the picture is not a composite. The field in the foreground is growing either rape seed or mustard, which is common in the cooler climates. This is also backed up by the snow covered mountain in what must be close to mid summer.
The barren slpoes behind coupled with the wet, reed filled foregroubnd suggets an irrigated valley in a dry cool semi-desert.
The architecture is not European, but more likely arab, russian or asian influence.
The false crennelations seem to be a good feature to identify the architecture by, as are the brick or tapia walls still showing the scaffold or formwork holes. It looks like it was once covered in white render.
My guess is Eastern Europe and north of the Black sea area. I don't know what the architecture further East is like, but that is also a possibility, especially considering the landscape.
Can you tell if it is made from brick?
Karen, I would suggest you change your password on the photoalbum you link to now that everyone knows it.
Erik
ipflo Hi
the 'palace' looks to me like a typical old arabian fortified city (in some parts of arabia or of the magreb called the kashba), i guess that the building is in Yemen, or in the Asir region (south western Saudi Arabia) or in morocco (if the picture is no composite), because these are the places in the arabian world with mountains higher than 3000 metres and the buildings look like the ones i know from books about these regions.
ipflo Another nice picture of a kashba you can find at:
http://home.iae.nl/users/idiken/01_kashba_vallee_du_dadee.jpg
http://www.bikerz.freeserve.co.uk/returntrip/images/imil3.jpg
On the moment i am bending to morocco as the place where our palace is
karen anderson Thank you so much for your help.
My colleagues and I also believe Morocco could be the place, and keep going back to it.
We will check those other areas also.
Marilyn Brister I am looking for the identity of the same picture. I also believe the flowers are rapeseed, which grows over much of Europe. It is not quite possible to tell if the builing material is brick or perhaps a reddish sandstone. I too have looked all over the net and in library books and travel books. Please let me know if you find out.
karen anderson We got the answer to the mystery picture. Telouet Kasbah, Morocco. So you guys were pretty close. Just wanted to close the loop for anyone interested. Thanks!
Erik Schmidt Thanks for letting us know, we appreciate it.