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Greater Seat Park of Leisure

Posted by James Turnbull, Wednesday, 3rd August 2005

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A shopping centre in Malaga has ‘Plaza Mayor, Parque de Ocio’ written on the roof. Babelfish tells me this Spanish sentence translates to “Greater Seat Park of Leisure”, which doesn’t make much sense, but a more educated person tells me that a better translation would be “Main Square Leisure Park”.

That’s the translation problem solved, but why did they write the text upside down? ;-)

Thanks: LookingDown

5 Responses to 'Greater Seat Park of Leisure'

  1. RedTop says:

    You dont’t have to respect the NORTH so, it depends what is upside down :)

  2. perrogrun says:

    The big text was writte because a airpor is very near and the people who goes into the plane view the publish from the air.

    The center is a shopping an restaurant center
    But now the center shoopping can make publish for the sats.

  3. Alex says:

    A can see a great wide sarchasm here…

  4. Alan says:

    That place is great. I go there all the time for their 20-screen cinemas.. three rooms of which are used for IMAX films. The place also has a fantastic gym, tons of various restaurants, some clubs and discos at night, and a fair number of shopping places.

    I never knew they had that text written on the top.. but as someone pointed out, it is true that there is an airport right next to it and there’s planes coming back and forth all the time, so it makes sense.

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