Place i saw as a kid between france/spain but dont know name
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Can anyone help, this is driving me nuts...
In about 1988 i went on holiday driving down from biarritz in france to spain. I remember going through mountains and stopping at what may have been a toll or passport check place in the mountains.
There was a structure off to the side set back a few hundred yards into the hills that i remember looking like a pyramid or possibly hanging set of stone steps up to a large stone ball or possibly cube. I remember it looking very surreal and seeming to defy the laws of physics but cant really say much more than that. Ive tried searching for pics a few times but dont know where to start.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
In about 1988 i went on holiday driving down from biarritz in france to spain. I remember going through mountains and stopping at what may have been a toll or passport check place in the mountains.
There was a structure off to the side set back a few hundred yards into the hills that i remember looking like a pyramid or possibly hanging set of stone steps up to a large stone ball or possibly cube. I remember it looking very surreal and seeming to defy the laws of physics but cant really say much more than that. Ive tried searching for pics a few times but dont know where to start.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=42.47402,2.860737&...
Google Street View is your friend. Why the f
k it's there I have no idea.
Google Street View is your friend. Why the f
k it's there I have no idea.davepoth said:
Why the fk it's there I have no idea.
Google k it's there I have no idea.
http://www.ricardobofill.com/en/7181/Architecture/...
The above site said:
The Pyramid
1976, Le Perthus, France
The société des autoroutes de France presented the Taller de Arquitectura with a very imprecise brief for the design of a park. Given the aggression the mountain had suffered as a result of its having to accommodate a motorway, and the unappealing nature of this kind of public work, it was decided to build a monument to dignify the new highway and to recall the importance of the pyrenean passes in the history of Catalonia. The pyramid, built from the stones excavated while the motorway was under construction, sits on an 80-m high 100 x 100-m square base. The garden that surmounts it creates a false perspective that highlights the temple on the top, a monument in homage to Catalonia. Its red brick columns symbolise the four stripes on the catalan flag, the origin of which goes back to the IX century when count Guifré el Pilós, wounded in a battle against the moors, was rewarded with a new banner by the king of France: soaking his fingers in his own blood, the count drew four red lines on his golden shield. With the imminent disappearance of the frontier post at its base, the pyramid became the symbol of a united Europe.
1976, Le Perthus, France
The société des autoroutes de France presented the Taller de Arquitectura with a very imprecise brief for the design of a park. Given the aggression the mountain had suffered as a result of its having to accommodate a motorway, and the unappealing nature of this kind of public work, it was decided to build a monument to dignify the new highway and to recall the importance of the pyrenean passes in the history of Catalonia. The pyramid, built from the stones excavated while the motorway was under construction, sits on an 80-m high 100 x 100-m square base. The garden that surmounts it creates a false perspective that highlights the temple on the top, a monument in homage to Catalonia. Its red brick columns symbolise the four stripes on the catalan flag, the origin of which goes back to the IX century when count Guifré el Pilós, wounded in a battle against the moors, was rewarded with a new banner by the king of France: soaking his fingers in his own blood, the count drew four red lines on his golden shield. With the imminent disappearance of the frontier post at its base, the pyramid became the symbol of a united Europe.
twister said:
davepoth said:
Why the fk it's there I have no idea.
Google k it's there I have no idea.http://www.ricardobofill.com/en/7181/Architecture/...
The above site said:
The Pyramid
1976, Le Perthus, France
The société des autoroutes de France presented the Taller de Arquitectura with a very imprecise brief for the design of a park. Given the aggression the mountain had suffered as a result of its having to accommodate a motorway, and the unappealing nature of this kind of public work, it was decided to build a monument to dignify the new highway and to recall the importance of the pyrenean passes in the history of Catalonia. The pyramid, built from the stones excavated while the motorway was under construction, sits on an 80-m high 100 x 100-m square base. The garden that surmounts it creates a false perspective that highlights the temple on the top, a monument in homage to Catalonia. Its red brick columns symbolise the four stripes on the catalan flag, the origin of which goes back to the IX century when count Guifré el Pilós, wounded in a battle against the moors, was rewarded with a new banner by the king of France: soaking his fingers in his own blood, the count drew four red lines on his golden shield. With the imminent disappearance of the frontier post at its base, the pyramid became the symbol of a united Europe.
1976, Le Perthus, France
The société des autoroutes de France presented the Taller de Arquitectura with a very imprecise brief for the design of a park. Given the aggression the mountain had suffered as a result of its having to accommodate a motorway, and the unappealing nature of this kind of public work, it was decided to build a monument to dignify the new highway and to recall the importance of the pyrenean passes in the history of Catalonia. The pyramid, built from the stones excavated while the motorway was under construction, sits on an 80-m high 100 x 100-m square base. The garden that surmounts it creates a false perspective that highlights the temple on the top, a monument in homage to Catalonia. Its red brick columns symbolise the four stripes on the catalan flag, the origin of which goes back to the IX century when count Guifré el Pilós, wounded in a battle against the moors, was rewarded with a new banner by the king of France: soaking his fingers in his own blood, the count drew four red lines on his golden shield. With the imminent disappearance of the frontier post at its base, the pyramid became the symbol of a united Europe.
shame it seems to have run into disrepair a bit.
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