Click to your heart's content.The Vleeptron Ministry of Pizza has redacted some Latin text from the top of this illustration.
What is/was this? Where is/was this? Who built this and lived here?
This wasn't the first Disney Theme Park or the world's first Shopping Mall. It wasn't the Palace of the Grand Duchess of Huipdidoux.
This was a Very Important Thing, and a practically unique Thing in the history of Earth. Odds are you once had to know something about this for a quiz in high school or university.
2 slices if you can nail the Date when it was built and looked like this down to within 50 years.
A half a Large with your 4 favorite toppings if you're the first to nail the What, the Where, and the Who.
7 comments:
OK I am going for the Abbey of Cluny in France. At its time (11/12th c) it was the biggest building in central europe. The proportions are not correct, but that is not unusual with medieval illuminations and illustrations. If I'm not correct 8I fear i am not)I have to go through my books on meievao history agin (i have a lot of them sine I wanted to study Medieval History at one time, believe it or not)
Okay! Thanks for the guess!
Time is way wrong (no +/- 50 years pizza slice), and the Thing is way wrong.
But your guess deserves a hint.
"Medieval" ... this Thing was built at what most historians would call the very end of the Middle Ages. And in fact this Thing had a lot to do with moving Europe beyond the Middle Ages, into a new phase of culture and intellectual world view.
well the latin scribbles would make me assume that it's italian in origin, and the conversation above makes me think that it's renaissance era. a renaissance walled city most likely.
Well then, let us not go to Camelot, for it is a silly place. I wanted to watch sin city tonight but i reckon I will goooooooogle this one out. It is not Chartres, that one would be too old. i dare say that the object does not exist in this form anymore and that it is not in europe and I have the very strange feeling that ur good friend Abbas from YYZ will get that one right.
But me try for me hungry and me want some Pizzapizza !
The Ministry of Pizza is very grateful for these great responses!
Okay, the redacted text was Latin because that was still the universal lingo among the educated elite of Europe.
Actually this joint was/is somewhere in Scandinavia, and this illustration is from 1598.
It's my understanding that the buildings are gone now, but a reconstruction of the gardens is currently under way.
Good guesses deserve good hints.
I got it now but I am not saying it yet, I dont wanna spoil it for the others. This is a very good PizzaQ ! The garden is under reconstrucrion indeed, they are a bit behind schedule I reckon. If you commenters out there are still looking for a clue just reckon on what Bob is interested in. Googeling will not help in this case, just think about the time and place
By private correspondence, PatfromCH has indeed identified the joint and wins the Pizza (transatlantic shipping costs not included).
Yes, everybody keep guessing!
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