Photo Location Puzzle Thread

[Ray4AJ]

Originally Posted by Rev

Puzzle 22

Stars au Grand Air - house
43.981794 0.719130

Castle Gachepony
43.984597 0.735071

Puzzle 22 Alizee Location
43.986352 0.732502

Great job Rev, you get the bonus points!
(I think she is over 300m from your spot though )
>>>My solution

[Scruffydog777]

Originally Posted by Ray4AJ

Are you talking about puzzle 21 or something else?

Sorry............forgot the link................again!
Puzzle 23

[Rev]

Originally Posted by Ray4AJ

Great job Rev, you get the bonus points!
(I think she is over 300m from your spot though )
>>>My solution

I may get the bonus points but that is all I get. You are correct, I had the wrong location for her. There was one aspect bothering me about my solution. Now I know why.

[Ray4AJ]

Originally Posted by Rev

I may get the bonus points but that is all I get.

No, you aced the hard part, finding the ruins and the area in general.

[Rev]

Scruffy. I won't comment on P23 as I have already spent a lot of time looking at that building.

[Scruffydog777]

I thought about posting another picture, because the one I posted really gives you zero clues just about, but from what I mentioned before, this should be relatively easy to solve if Ray is interested.

[Ray4AJ]

Originally Posted by Scruffydog777

I thought about posting another picture, because the one I posted really gives you zero clues just about, but from what I mentioned before, this should be relatively easy to solve if Ray is interested.

I am going to work on it, just haven't yet.

I assume it's in Corse?

[Scruffydog777]

It's in the Ajaccio region and searching for historical clues as opposed to geographical clues, may prove more fruitful.

[Ray4AJ]

Okay, I did find that building in P23 up on the mountain. I read a little about what it was but I didn't really understand, other than that the roof burned.

[Scruffydog777]

I'll write a real quicky history. It's called the Château de La Punta. There was a palace in Paris, right next door to the Louvre museum. It was burnt down by the Paris commune after the disastorous loss by Napoleon III to the Russians.
Then here are following quotes;
When in 1882 it was decided to raze the stone left standing of the Tuileries Palace burned during the Commune in 1871, all in the Picart was acquired by Achille demolition contractor for the sum of 33,000 francs to the charge "in wholesale or retail," butchering in which dispersed the elements.

Thus the Duke Pozzo di Borgo Jerome and his son, Count Charles, Charles-André descendants, one of the great enemies of Napoleon 1st, made the acquisition of more jackpot flag of the former palace in order to build a castle on the Corsican family estate located in Alata, near Ajaccio.
Loose stones and raised by architect Albert Vincent Franklin was crated and shipped by railway to Marseille, then convoyed by boat to Ajaccio; this uncle's fortune allowed to fund a company which required in order to deliver the materials to the place chosen, digging into the rock of a road seven kilometers.

I guess it's been inhabited for many years. As Ray mentioned it suffered a fire which damaged the roof. That damage was letting more water in over the years causing more damage. It was bought by some faction of the Corsican government. The roof was repaired which stopped any on going damage, but I guess it's still in need of major renovation.

I'll bet at the time there were no trees between this chateau and Ajaccio and that must've been a spectacular view.