xylogx@lemmy.world to pics@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoThe Nashville Parthenonlemmy.worldimagemessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1150arrow-down13
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minus-squarerealitista@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·7 days agoI just visited Nashville for the first time in February and visited this thing. Was strange.
minus-squareTropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·7 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-squaremadcaesar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·7 days agoBelieve it or not, another Parthenon!
minus-squareTryingSomethingNew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·7 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-up6·6 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?
An art museum and this:
Believe it or not, another Parthenon!
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