Challenge: Where is this? IV

[Ian]

Re: Challenge: Where is this? IV

I used to know someone who lived (maybe still lives?) there in the late 1980s and visited several times. One of my cousins also had a reception there in the hotel that forms part of the crescent.

OK - I will put my thinking cap on...

Ian

[Ian]

Re: Challenge: Where is this? IV

Here you go:



The name of the city will suffice

Ian

[Ian]

Re: Challenge: Where is this? IV

OK, a clue - it's not Vienna.

Ian

[Kurt]

Re: Challenge: Where is this? IV

That narrows it down. I don't think it is Lisbon, Madrid or Barcelona; all have similar statues I think. Jerez's statues are quite prolific, but I don't remember a viewpoint like this. Does four feet on the ground mean that the subject did not die in battle?

[Ian]

Re: Challenge: Where is this? IV

The subject lived to a good age for his time so not in battle. There is something in common to a type of cabbage but this clue could be misleading!

Ian

[Ian]

Re: Challenge: Where is this? IV

Another clue - the statue is fairly high up and overlooks a major water feature.

Ian

[Kurt]

Re: Challenge: Where is this? IV

Are we the only two playing?

Your cabbage clue gave it to me. There are a couple of statues of him, but yours, I think, is in Budapest, probably Buda from the elevated position. I visited a great coffee/cake shop near there many years ago (in the days of film).

[andym]

Re: Challenge: Where is this? IV

I'd play but I was stumped by the last one

[Ian]

Re: Challenge: Where is this? IV

Well done Kurt - yes it's a statue of of Prince Eugene of Savoy (hence the cabbage reference) and it's high up overlooking the Danube that flows through Budapest.

Back to you Kurt!

Ian

Are we the only two playing?

Your cabbage clue gave it to me. There are a couple of statues of him, but yours, I think, is in Budapest, probably Buda from the elevated position. I visited a great coffee/cake shop near there many years ago (in the days of film).

[Kurt]

Re: Challenge: Where is this? IV

Well here is an easy one - if you have seen it! And you could probably Google it, too.



Kurt

[Ian]

Re: Challenge: Where is this? IV

Shouldn't there be 7 of them?

Ian

[Kurt]

Re: Challenge: Where is this? IV

Shouldn't there be 7 of them?

Ian

You are mixing these guys up with dwarves, these are a different species.

K.

[Kurt]

Re: Challenge: Where is this? IV

Time for a clue.

I believe the creatures are Elves, but there are claims that they are Heinzelmännchen (House Gnomes).

Kurt

[andym]

Re: Challenge: Where is this? IV

I've had a "Google"(which I prefer not to do) , is it Cologne?

[Kurt]

Re: Challenge: Where is this? IV

I've had a "Google"(which I prefer not to do) , is it Cologne?

Yep, these are the Elves of Cologne who used to do the men's work until disaster fell and they left never to return.

Over to you.

Kurt