Sunday 20 February 2011

Nothing but quiet.



You are arriving at Madrid, have a walk through Madrid and comes across this square: Callao what? Spaniards often let a letter, the spoken d, you know: cansado-cansao, alicatado-alicatao, callado-callao, Callao. I thougt. And 'callado/callao' means 'quiet'. But it is not true. There was a battle in Spanish-Southamerican War in 1866, the Battle of Callao, named by the peruan city of Callao. That's it.

7 comments:

joo said...

I remember this square - it's nice, and I like this B&W photo.

Carlos Ribeiro said...

Interesting. Beautiful photography! Congratulations!

Alan said...

Is that natural light? Makes for a very interesting photo!

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elsa said...

Beautiful smoggy picture!

Sylvie said...

I love your photos, they let me enter into a different world...

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