I drove to the city of Pula yesterday. It's the nearest city, only about ten kilometers from where I live. That's why I published quite a few posts about it so far. It's a small city with only about 60,000 inhabitants, but there is often something new to focus on and photograph, and when there isn't, one can always find a new way to approach the old stuff.
In today's post, I'll show you a few buildings and vistas that caught my attention on a two or three-hundred-meter-long walk from the parking place to the apartment of a friend I came to visit.
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The thing presented in this opening photograph is a brand-new addition to the city. I never photographed it before. It's a Rotary Garage, a parking solution I didn't know existed before seeing it yesterday, around two o'clock in the afternoon.
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It's an interesting construction that allows these metallic parking places to rotate, or go up and down, or both, if I understood correctly, and it's all automated. It involves scanning the registration plates, thermal cameras that can detect a person accidentally or purposely stuck in the vehicle situated somewhere in the construction made for cars only, not for people, and other crazy stuff I don't think about when I'm about to leave my car somewhere in the city.
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Here you can see the suburban fields behind the construction. This part of the suburb is very close to the center. Maybe it can't be defined as suburbia at all, it just feels like suburbia becouse of the combination of buildings of a certain type and the agricultural fields.
Mark the nice similarity between the color of the garage and the reddish soil of this part of Istria.
In the following shot ...
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... you can see the conventional, primitive parking lot in which I left the car. From there, I photographed the Rotary Garage that opened the post. The parking area is surrounded by pretty large buildings built a decade or so ago. They are still mostly empty. A few small businesses can be seen on the ground floor, but there are no traces of human activity in the windows and balconies. If people do live here, they are very good at hiding.
If you take a good look at the above photograph, you'll easily notice a yellow building in the center of the frame. Can you see it? Ok, good ...
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... here I zoomed in to bring closer those distant windows and balconies.
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The cluster of buildings near the parking lot is shaped more or less as a half circle with something that looks like a little round plaza in the midlle.
It's a bit more interesting than the usual modern architecture in this part of the city.
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Here you can see a cluster of buildings I photographed about a hundred meters further on my way to the center of Pula. One of them is still a work in progress.
This is the relatively large main road that leads to the center. It's a good spot from which to take a wide shot that emphasizes the perspective.
Just out of the frame, behind the wall shown near the left edge of the picture ...
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...there is a nice group of family homes with a pretty large yard that ends with an embankment and the wall that separates them from the road. The place looks like a separate little neighborhood, very different from everything that surrounds it.
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In this photograph, I zoomed in on the buildings further down the road that leads to the old town, the historic center of Pula. You can see some older buildings, some newer ones, and a traffic sign as well. It's a nice urban mix that conveys the atmosphere of a sunny Easter afternoon, when the streets are mostly empty becouse the people are at home or enjoying nature somewhere out of the city.
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I zoomed in even more in this shot. There is a bigger emphasis on straight lines in this composition.
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The last photograph was taken in the center. This little journey ends right here.
A truly amazing and unique parking facility. I would be agraid that my car gets sticked inside it for some reason. 😂
Hahaha me too ... I will probably go for a walk to the city before driving and then parking there.
I love this photograph. It's just like you said, the architecture is different, and look at those columns, a brilliant architectural work.
I wish you a happy evening.
Thank you, have a good morning.
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Great array of pictures. The electronic parking garage is pretty cool, but I bet it's expensive compared to the standard parking. Plus, what happens if the power goes out? No ride home? What a nice smaller city, it's always fun to see the new vs older structures. It just goes to show you that modernization and advancement are universal except maybe in some old, tiny town.
Great post!
Yes, that's a good question. 🙂 I don't feel comfortable leaving the car there.
Glad you like the post.
I've been seeing Pula from your posts. Even though the city is small, I can see it is progressive.
That parking garage gives me an uneasy feeling... Soon so many things will be automated and ran by robots. I resist this change because of a gut feeling, but I still do find it to be an interesting innovation.
It was cool to see some of Pula, half of my family is from Croatia originally 😄
Yes, to me as well, this new stuff looks more interesting to see than to use. It feels a bit complicated and scary to leave the car there, it will probably take quite some time before I do that. 😀 Greetings from Croatia to you and both halves of your family.
I love your photographs
Your vicinity looks really beautiful and clean
Pula is so beautiful, i visited IT last year in Summer, great Amphitheater and a nice Aquarium. Food Was also great
Glad you had a good time here. I haven't visited the aquarium in years. I was there a few times in the first months when it opened, I don't even remember what year it was. It probably has more species now.
What an interesting thing that automated parking lot is!... Very entertaining post as always coming from your content @borjan friend! Have a great week!!!
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Thanks.🙂 That parking lot is really something. Never have I seen a thing like that. It will take time for me to use it - it looks scary and complicated for now.
Yeah, I really don't want to imagine being inside a car there, I understand why it's "just for cars"... I once used a similar one but vertical in Caracas, the capital of my country, but they didn't allow being in the car when it was raised by the lifts either...😀
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Recently I've found out that Pula has an old Austrian navy cemetery with burials dating to WW1. Might be curious place to explore. Have you ever been there?
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Yes, I was there many times. Not so much recently, though. I have only one post about it.
https://ecency.com/hive-155530/@borjan/graveyard-walk-in-stoia
Wow the structure definitely looks so presentable in photographs actually
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