Gulliver Park
This is Gulliver Park in Valencia, Spain. The figure you see is an enormous fibreglass model of Lemuel Gulliver trapped by the Lilliputians, and the ropes that tie him to the ground form part of a children’s adventure playground. Children can slide down his jacket, climb up the ropes on his arms, visit the city of Liliput inside him, and do a number of other activities spread out all over the figure.
Sounds quite gross actually.
Thanks to BADI, Javier, Francisco Gioielli, Rober, brigate, JohnnyBoy9, Veli Matti Pelttari, cremaor, Trompie, Michael Zacherl, Pablo, andysamp, Ximet, Andros and Martin.
Good Plane with jet plumes near
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
I’ve been there a month ago. Here are the pics on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&w=49503147557@N01&q=gulliver+parque&m=tags
Just to the southeast is some really cool architecture.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
A little searching yields that this is the City of Arts and Sciences Complex designed by local Valencian architect Santiago Calavatra. There are five areas in the complex including an opera house, an IMAX theatre, a garden area, a science museum, and an open-air oceanographic park.
This complex (and Gulliver Park) is built in the dry river bed of the now diverted River Turia. The river was diverted after a major flood in 1957. It was diverted to the south of the city and you can clearly see the man-made path… its much too straight compared to the rest of the river!
Doug, the City of Arts and Sciences Complex is amazing. Here are some photos corresponding to your link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gustavo/tags/calatrava/
and here some of the magnific oceanographic park:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gustavo/tags/loceanografic/
Cheers, guu