Imaging Germany 016: Playing Giant Outdoor Chess in Boppard (RP)

A personal selection of photographs with their stories.

016: Playing giant outdoor chess

Boppard is a small town in the Rhine Gorge, in the German state of Rhine-Palatinate. Archaeologic findings  have unearthed traces of early civilizations that date back some 13,000 years. The Romans that their settlement, at the border with the Germanic tribes. Until 1309 Boppard was a free imperial city,  but then became part of the Holy Roman Empire. The well-conserved historic center has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2002. Tourism and wine production are the main economic activities. The picture shows a different activity. Older people that participate in an unusual outdoor chess game with giant pieces. The chess board is located at the margin of the Rhine River.

© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 1991-2001, 2017

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Imaging Brazil 371: Shopping Mall Window Reflection in Rio de Janeiro, RJ (2012)

A personal selection of photographs with their stories.

371: Shopping mall window reflection

There are several interesting shopping malls in Rio de Janeiro. Many Brazilians love to spend part of their leisure time in those shopping malls; not only for shopping and wandering along the shop windows, but also for their lunch and social drinks. The shopping malls in Rio are large: each with hundreds of stores and dozens of restaurants, and many of them host a cinema with several big rooms. The largest Mall of South America is Barra Shopping, with more than seven hundred stores. Other major malls are Norte Shopping, Shopping Nova América, Shopping Rio Sul, Praia Shopping, and Shopping Tijuca. The glass window in the photograph is Shopping Rio Sul, which is located in the neighborhood of Botafogo, near Urca. This shopping, built in 1980, hosts more than four hundred stores and welcomes more than twenty million people annually.

© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2012, 2017