Identify this:

[Conchaga]

Not wasting any time.

I may be an atheist, but I loves me some churches.

Good luck!

 

[FBI parte due]

The car is from The Car.

That's an Italian church, I presume?

 

[Conchaga]

I'll answer questions in a day or two if nobody gets it.

 

[FBI parte due]

I will make a pilgrimage to the mountain of knowledge and will return a changed man with the answer at noon tomorrow.

 

[FBI parte due]

http://www.sacred-destinations.com/italy/milan-basilica-sant-ambrogio.htm

!!

 

[Conchaga]

Yep, the prototype for all Romanesque Churches. It set the architectural standard for all major basilicas for a millennium.

And it's only a few minutes away from the Convent where DaVinci painted 'The Last Supper'.

 

[FBI parte due]

I'm not sure if I'll be able to come up with something quite so cool for the next one, but I'll try.

 

[FBI parte due]

Visiting here is way up on my list of things to do once I have $5000 and a few months to spare.

 

[Conchaga]

Indian or Arabic? If Arabic, is it on the continent of Africa or in the Middle East?

 

[FBI parte due]

None of the above.

 

[Conchaga]

Well, by Arabic I meant anything coming from the Babylonians on. Though, it could well be of Jewish make... Fine... I'll go digging.

 

[FBI parte due]

It's Arabic-influenced, but only in the way that anything else built by Muslims is.

 

[Archibald Nixon]

Rejected proposal for DisneyArabia's "The Infidel's Wild Ride"

 

[FBI parte due]

Clues, anyone?

Or are you just too busy living your REAL LIVES to have time to devote hours to tracking down obscure historical buildings for no real reason at all?

 

[Conchaga]

Clues would be nice. I'd love an aerial photo of the footprint of the entire bricked area. Perhaps specifying what continent it's on would be good, too.

I've exhausted every google/wikipedia search I can in hopes of discovering the item. What was shuttled up/down those rails?

 

[missmanners]

Is it a mine?


mm

 

[Conchaga]

No, you can't have it. No matter how well you fake a Spanish accent.

 

[FBI parte due]

It's heavily Persian-influenced, which is probably where you were getting the Arab vibes from.

It's not a mine. The walls just look rough because they were stripped of their marble covering at some point.

I'm not really sure what the "rails" are for, but it's possible that they're just handrails. They're not really central to the function of the building.

Couldn't find any better photos, but here's a floor plan, if that helps.

 

[Conchaga]

I think I'll have to tackle this after the weekend. That is, if nobody's guessed it yet.

 

[Archibald Nixon]

Ulugh Beg observatory in Samarkand. I didn't really have a clue until you showed the floor plan, and I noticed those strong points of light on the walls of that underground chamber.