Chester, Cheshire
Chester is one of only a few (if not the only) medieval cities remaining in England and has a reputation of being the “English medieval city par excellence”. Chester lies on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales, and was founded as a Roman fort with the name Deva Victrix in the year 79.
Chester makes a claim for being one of the best preserved complete walled cities in the British Isles (the walls were built to keep Wales at bay). The walls encircle the bounds of the medieval city with the full circuit measuring nearly 2 miles (3 km).
A part of the wall with a clock tower.
Medieval buildings line the streets.
You may realise that most of my UK pics are in HDR. This is because my normal pics just don’t show off the details in the buildings enough. The only way to really show off all the detail is by creating HDR images.
Feel British?
Forgot to mention, this whole place is a shopping area. All these buildings are shops.
One of many, many churches.
The Roman Amphitheatre, or what’s left of it. You can still see the round arena.
Unfortunately, only half of the Amphitheatre remains as illustrated above.
This is what it looked like back in it’s roman days.
Since I’m standing right in the Amphitheatre, I felt a barbaric rush and had to beat up the nearest moving object!
The river Dee. The swans and ducks thought I had food for them.
Look, there’s Dr. Vincent (my sister’s boy)!
I love the blueness of this pic.
Photos taken on 2009.10.16
3 comments
great photographs again thumbs up amigo!
Thanks Zio.
You’re photos of women’s legs are pretty cool too
Exquisite architecture and shopping!!! It has got “me me me me” written all over it….
For some reason the black beams and the decoration on the second floor exterior really catches me, gotta make my house look like that some day… …well…I can photoshop…:P