I just visited Nashville for the first time in February and visited this thing. Was strange.
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it's super weird.
I was there a couple years before. I expected with all the limestone it would.. well.. it would be limestone.
No. it's cast poured concrete.
Yeah, it sounds strange... What's inside?
Believe it or not, another Parthenon!
An art museum and this:
An even weirder statue
Actually, looking at it, it’s just their interpretation of the statue that the Parthenon was built for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena_Parthenos
Probably the thing that makes the most sense out of this whole thing
Why the fuck would they replicate a Greek historical site, and then fill it with American paraphernalia
This building is no more than an imitation of the original.
This was allegedly "designed" by an American Confederate architect. No motherfucker it was designed by Ictinus and Callicrates.
We don't need to visit Greece honey, we have Greece at home!
Greece at home has Hot Chicken, which is pretty cool at least
This place actually kinda kicks ass if you're there. It's a strange project to have taken on, but it seems to have been done sincerely.
The botanical gardens nearby are also nice.
Is that screen over the lower figures? To keep bird off, I'm guessing.
American narcissism at its best