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2024/04/29 Palamidi Fortress in Nafplio
π 2024-04-29 01:01 in Greece2024, Monuments
Nafplio has 2 fortresses, but Palamidi is hard to miss, you see it as soon as you arrive and it's lit up at night. It hangs impossibly on a steep and sideways hill, and it's a miracle and testiment to its construction that it is still standing today. It is built with multiple defense layers and the views from up ther are of course stellar:













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2024/04/11 San Antonio Missions National Park: San Juan, San José, and Mission Conception
π 2024-04-11 01:01 in Monuments, Museums, Texas
The national park is a set of 3 old Spanish Missions, and was interesting enough, to visit:



Seeing a small still working aqueduc was cool:











And here is the 3rd mission:




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2024/04/11 The Alamo
π 2024-04-11 01:01 in Monuments, Texas
When I showed up at the Alamo, I knew nothing about it, and the first day I arrived around 11:00 it was a mess of people and completely sold out for the day (both tours and even audioguides), quite disappointing. So I booked a tour the next morning at 09:00 as well as an audioguide as they complement one another (although you have to pay twice), and learned the biased history about the place, which is supposed to show that poor Americans got attacked by blood thirsty Mexicans, unprovoked (that part is not really true), and how they did indeed fight to the death defending the position, which helped other American troops later defeat the Mexicans.
The place has kind of a cult status for courage and bravery, somewhat deserved indeed, but both the tour and audoguide focus mostly on the battle and bravery, while skipping the context of this battle (Americans agreeing to Mexican rule to get land, and then later deciding to secede). Basically why weren't quite martyrs, but they did fight bravely

I'll add that getting tickets online is confusing, google gets you tickets to the church, which are free, but you need an extra ticket for the museum and ideally you want the guided tour or the audioguide, and those do sell out.



the church where the battle ended
the church where the battle ended

some original frescos were found under the plaster
some original frescos were found under the plaster







The museum had lots of artifacts, most of which were acquired by Phil Collins and donated to the museum:



cannonballs to musquet balls
cannonballs to musquet balls

When doing both the guided tour and audioguide, plus the museum, it took close to 3H. I still had to watch the movie after the fact to get the fuller story.

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2024/04/10 San Antonio's Tower of the Americas
π 2024-04-10 01:01 in Monuments, Texas
I typically always go for elevated viewpoints, and did the same, this time around, although after a longish wait for the elevator, we actually got stuck at the top without being able to get around for about 15mn until someone reset whatever safety got triggered and blocked us (high winds, maybe?). The view was ok-ish:





They also had a quick history lesson:





I'd say it's probably somewhat skippable, and somewhat out of town, but it was open when other things had already closed, so I went.

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