garbage
2009 July 11
Today’s Photohunter theme is “garbage”.
I ask you … have you ever seen anything so ugly? These are the garbage disposal receptacles that were installed a few years ago in the centre of Seville – the city with the largest preserved old centre in Europe. They are part of an underground “suck it up” disposal system that works okay most of the time, but could they not have designed a receptacle that didn’t look like R2D2 on a bad day? They are just so jarring to the eye in comparison to the beautiful architecture here. Ironically, newer receptacles that have been installed in other less pretty parts of town are much more pleasing to look at. Go figure.
Well … it’s different!
I played too
Yep, it is pretty ugly. Looks almost like a bomb.
It does! Sort of like a WWII bomb the became embedded in the street!
And Battleship Grey is SUCH an attractive colour!
Definitely clashes with the architecture of the town centre. Great choice for this week’s theme.
Is Sevilla the city with the largest preserved old centre in Europe? Didn’t know that.
I do quite like those spray painted bottle bank thingys around town though – quite refreshing. Well, some of them are.
Did you see this one?
That’s what I’ve been told about Sevilla, though I haven’t seen any documented evidence.
Oh, dear, you should know better when they tell you about anything related to Seville (or Andalusia). I highly doubt it’s the largest preserved old centre in Europe – or they must define it in funny ways. (This of course comes from an Italian who feels has to defend her country
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Well, “they” have been several people over the years, not only Sevillanos. And bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better
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Seville does seem to have been spared a lot of the devastation other old European cities have experienced. And, unlike some places, residents still live in the centre and it hasn’t just become a massive tourist attraction (though it’s certainly more touristy than when I arrived in 1993, especially my barrio).
I suspect they are defining the city centre as anything within the original town walls and, other than a few areas that were destroyed during the Franco era, I think most of it is well maintained and it often does feel like you are walking in old Europe.
Ewww – that is nasty. Not at all in keeping with the surrounds.
have to agree, it’s ugly hehehe! I played PH too.
Yes, it’s not the most pleasing to the eye architectural phenomenon.
Have a great weekend.
doesn’t look like a trash receptacle but it is ugly, like a furnace, but at least it did the job
I sat here chuckling as I tried to picture R2D2 on a bad “hair” day… and you know… YOU’RE RIGHT! My construction trash or garbage is up.
Hmm. Maybe it is ugly, but when I visited Seville I enjoyed the convenience.
Is Seville the oldest preserved city center in Europe? I wonder. Perhaps they are defining “city” in a way to make it true. But when you think about how long it has been inhabited, including the Roman barracks that were made into the moorish merchant prince’s palace and then the Alcazar, perhaps it is true. After all, the operative word is “preserved city center”, and that means it couldn’t have been destroyed by earthquake ( like Lisbon) or fire (like Rome). And it has to still be the city center, too, I would suppose. Whatever it’s position, the place is wonderful.
Interesting looking receptacle.Well, at least the eyesore is the receptacle and not the garbage:)
Happy weekend.
I have to stop writing history books on these things… Next time, just a few pictures….. Yeah…. sure…
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consider yourself lucky…in Toronto we’re suffering a garbage strike
I was talking to a friend of mine in TO last week and she was telling me about it, mister anchovy. Ah, I remember them well, the summer garbage strikes of Toronto…
I was in NYC back in the mid-70s when they had their huge garbage strike… Bags piled yards high on main streets and rats and cockroaches. The city was dirty enough WITHOUT the garbage. That was during their financial crisis and They were The Bad Apple.
It does look like a robot or Dadaist sculpture.
“like R2D2 on a bad day”…LOL!!
I know here they would just paint some eagles and other “Indian animals” on it and call it ART. go figure!!
Si, en España ocurren estas cosas como en otras partes del mundo.
Porqué aquellos que llegan de fuera, se empeñan en mostrar las “penas” que encuentran por donde pasan?
Hola y bienvenida, Sol. Aunque vengo “de fuera” Sevilla ha sido mi casa desde hace 16 años y esta “pena” es algo que veo todos los días. Además, tuve que buscar una imagen de “basura” esta semana.
What do the nicer trash receptacles in the other neighborhoods look like?
“connected to a ’suck it up’ system underground”
Boy, they realy don’t want their trash picked through for recycle-ables, do they? To me, it resembles a night deposit box at some banks I’ve visited! It wouldn’t be pretty even in a nice,happy blue!
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