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Dame_Ann_Average posted:

 

We won't get the answers until the 20th but I will post the results.

 

the only one we were stuck on was the 4th George place and we have solved the mystery 

 

It's the Danube bridge in Ruse Bulgaria and the designer was  Georgi Ovcharov

Image result for danube rousse bridge

 

Thanks for all your help everyone and so sorry you're not able to join in Roxan 

I can't see your picture, Dame, but it's definitely the right bridge: however I think you've got the wrong connection.

 

Georgi Ovcharov only co-designed the bridge - he did the decoration (it was Soviet-designed during the communist era). However the bridge is variously known as the Friendship Bridge, the Danube Bridge (post-communist) and the Giurgiu-Ruse Bridge - because it links Giurgiu in Romania with Ruse (or Rousse) in Bulgaria. If I've got it correct, Ruse is in the foreground of the quiz photo, and Giurgiu is on the far side. "Giurgiu" is basically just old Romanian for "George"...

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube_Bridge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giurgiu

 

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