xylogx@lemmy.world to pics@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days agoThe Nashville Parthenonlemmy.worldimagemessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1149arrow-down13
arrow-up1146arrow-down1imageThe Nashville Parthenonlemmy.worldxylogx@lemmy.world to pics@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squarerealitista@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·22 days agoI just visited Nashville for the first time in February and visited this thing. Was strange.
minus-squareTropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·22 days agoit’s super weird. I was there a couple years before. I expected with all the limestone it would… well… it would be limestone. No. it’s cast poured concrete.
minus-squareVathsade@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up7·22 days agoYeah, it sounds strange… What’s inside?
minus-squaremadcaesar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·22 days agoBelieve it or not, another Parthenon!
minus-squareTryingSomethingNew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·22 days agoActually, looking at it, it’s just their interpretation of the statue that the Parthenon was built for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena_Parthenos
minus-squareBowtiesAreCool@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·21 days agoProbably the thing that makes the most sense out of this whole thing
I just visited Nashville for the first time in February and visited this thing. Was strange.
it’s super weird.
I was there a couple years before. I expected with all the limestone it would… well… it would be limestone.
No. it’s cast poured concrete.
Yeah, it sounds strange… What’s inside?
Believe it or not, another Parthenon!
An art museum and this:
An even weirder statue
Actually, looking at it, it’s just their interpretation of the statue that the Parthenon was built for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena_Parthenos
Probably the thing that makes the most sense out of this whole thing