xylogx@lemmy.world to pics@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoThe Nashville Parthenonlemmy.worldimagemessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up1150arrow-down13
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minus-squarerealitista@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·2 months agoI just visited Nashville for the first time in February and visited this thing. Was strange.
minus-squareTropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·2 months 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-up7·2 months agoYeah, it sounds strange… What’s inside?
minus-squaremadcaesar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·2 months agoBelieve it or not, another Parthenon!
minus-squareTryingSomethingNew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 months 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-up6·2 months 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