City reconstructions 3D and Art

What place is that? Did the lake dry up or recede?

Damn, reminds me a bit of Kamieniec Podolski
Damn the Polish-Ukrainian border should be on he Smotrycz river and imagine the castle being completely rebuilt, oh dreams...
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Ephesus, western Turkey. This is how it looks today, it seems it was intentional

Old Beijing, the world's largest pre-industrial city. Yellow roofs indicate the smaller palaces of princes, using the banned colour reserved only for royalty.

Medieval Paris

Damned shame. They must've filled in the land and cut the flow of the lake to make way for the strip.

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Medieval London

Old (and dangerous) London Bridge

London Bridge was dangerous, not just for its funneling effect on the river to create rapids - when it caught fire at both ends 3,000 were drowned, burnt or stampeded to death.

How did it happen to burn at both ends at the same time? Was it a varg?

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We need more built up bridges

There's the Ponte Vecchio in Italy, but it's not as built up as the old London Bridge. Seriously, that one seems to be more built up than the Long Bridge in Volantis on A Song of Ice and Fire.

I looked at these thinking it should not be real, that's insane to build not just houses, but 8 floor high elaborate palace looking buildings on that bridge.

why contain it?

A little description of the first drawing:

>An engraving by Claes Visscher (1587 – 1652)showing Old London Bridge in 1616, with what is now Southwark Cathedral in the foreground. The spiked heads of executed criminals can be seen above the Southwark gatehouse.

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Detail of Old London Bridge on the 1632 oil painting "View of London Bridge" by Claude de Jongh

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The Demolition of Old London Bridge, 1832

The Philadelphion and Capitolium of Constantinople

The first Senate before the Nika Riots

"Three crowns castle", Stockholm

These illustrations were made before the castle burned down in 1697:

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Makalös Palace, Stockholm

The palace was commissioned by Jakob De la Gardie and built from around 1630 to 1653. It too was damaged by fire, and demolished in 1825. Makalös means something like "unrivaled", in Swedish.

Illustrations from around 1700:

It wasn't a lake, it was a gulf. It receding is one of the main reasons for the city's decline.

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That's all I have for you guys, hope you liked it :)

awesome thread user, i like the comparisons with modern day ruins and vistas

thanks ;)

maquettes-historiques.net/page4.html

Here are some good ones.

How does one download all images in a thread

When New London Bridge was being constructed in the early 19th century, these stone supports were cut for the bridge, but never used. They have sat, abandoned, along the trail of the former railway for nearly 200 years.

naboo?

Constantinople. Thanks to the user who dumped all those "photographs" in the previous thread, turned me into an even bigger byzaboo.

It's interesting tha Constantinople does not follow the traditional grid pattern of planned Roman cities. Anyone know why that is?

>Anyone know why that is?
If (IF!) that pic is correct, it would probably be due to Byzantium being already an old and established city when Constantine renamed it Nova Roma and made it the new imperial capital. It's known that he started massive public works projects, but he likely didn't bother with razing it all down and rebuild it on a grid.

Medieval Bologna

More of Bologna

The old city of Byzantium barely covered the forested tip of Constantinople. Everything past roughly Haghia Sophia was brand new.

>Everything past roughly Haghia Sophia was brand new.
Considering the Augustaeum (which is nowaday called Hagia Sophia square) was right in the middle of the old city, you can't possibly be correct.

What are all the towers for?

different families dick waving

based

You can see the line of the old Byzantium walls on this blueprint, and they end right at the Augustaeum.

Your own map shows the severan wall passing right by the forum of Constantine, are you blind?

Italians loved building towers in the middle ages. They even put trees on them.

Irish tower house castle

imagine being an Italian noble, reading some book with wine and then fucking your mistress on full moon at the top of that tower

Fuck, I thought Assassin's Creed made that shit up.

Look at the wall of Byzantium on the map, not the severan wall.

No, Italy is a real place user.

Why? The severan wall would have been already more than a century old in Constantine's time.
What next, am I to judge Rome's size in Caesar's time by the position of the servian wall?

>play Wolfenstein New Colossus
>look it up on wikipedia
>WTF Hitler was actually real

>irish
that's Norman bro

Merovingian Paris probably 8th century AD

late roman paris 5th century AD

15th century Paris

pre Roman, native Celtic Paris. pretty cool desu.

not exactly a city but interested regardless. pic related is a typical Carolingian, Frankish fortified settlement, these forts where likely built as a deffence against nomads like the Avars and Magyars.

Cherven literally meaning "red", an important tradehub in the middle ages. When the country fell to the Ottomans the local viligers settled in the valley bellow and slowly dismantled the citatled which was no longer usefull and quite expensive to maintain. When you walk the streets of the current village you see stones from the citadel and marble pieces with decorations build in the walls of the houses.

Cherven literally meaning "red", an important tradehub in the middle ages. When the country fell to the Ottomans the local viligers settled in the valley bellow and slowly dismantled the citatled which was no longer usefull and quite expensive to maintain. When you walk the streets of the current village you see stones from the citadel and marble pieces with decorations build in the walls of the houses.

A detail of the feudal castle in the Citadel part of the town

What's left of it now

during the early medieval Islamic Cordoba besides Constantinople was probably the most advanced city in Europe.

a close up.

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An old ass model of Philipopolis. based on the then known layout of the Roman city which is still suprisingly intact underneath the modern streets. It was only recently discovered that the city was actually much larger with street systems expanding well beyond the city walls. Sources claim it had a population of 100 000 in the 2nd century AD. I have a cool book with 3D reconstructions of uncovered buildings I can take some pictures if you'd find that interesting.

what time period is that exactly?

There was a Byzantine settlement on the site in the 6th century but it was later abandoned and not settled. In 1235 the area was resettled it what remained of the Byzantine fortress was dismantled for the construction of the town. The town resisted the Mongol attacks but eventually succumbed to the Ottomans in the beggining of the 15th century. The reconstruction shows it in its 14th century version. There is no evidence that the Ottomans burned the town, and there are some scattered traces of habitation until the 16th century, after that it was dismantled to provide stones for the current village. Only one of the battle towers remains almost intact and three bastions. Here's an engraving from the 18th century showing the battle tower still standing on the plateau

And here it is today

please do if you still exist here user

Round city of bagdad and later growth

The city core

Medieval Amsterdam

Medieval stockholm

Medieval Ani before Seljuk destruction

Commencing spam. One of those days I will actually scan the motherfucker instead of just taking shitty pictures with my phone.

The book is like 13 years old and it was made when the whole city looked like shit and nobody gave a damn about archaeology and preservation of the artifacts.

more of Bagdad. it's interesting how cultures flourish and then decline, now the Arab world is very primitive and backward but in the early middle ages it was way ahead of Europe.

The recent years however have been good on the city both the modern one and the ancient Philippopol

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The roman walls being part of renaissance era houses.

The Theatre is still active hosing plays and concerts. Went to a Paradise Lost concert last year, fucking ace listening to doom metal there.