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[Chid12]

It looks like the picture to me! That's absolutely fantastic! Excellent work aceituna, how did you work that out?

It does rather blow our "these images come from Olympic cities" theory. Coimbra has never hosted the Olympics, in fact, no city in Portugal has. Unless there's a near-identical statue somewhere else, I think we're going to have to expand our search criteria.

At the same time, the first five have been found in Italy, Portugal, Finland, Sweden and Italy: all in Europe. If the last one is in an Olympic city in Europe, then it's limited to:

Antwerp, Belgium
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Berlin, Germany
Munich, Germany
Barcelona, Spain.

[aceituna]

I wish I could say I had some massive flash of inspiration but I didn't. i just noticed in your posts that someone suggested it could be a king. After searching for statues in spain brazil and italy I simply did a google image search for 'king statue', and started sifting through. And well there it was.

[AUZ505]

[thebruce]

oh that is such a match!
wiki'd

I also tried 'king statue', not quoted, and went through pages of images. guess it's all in the timing =P

[myf]

Oh, well done!

So, I guess Portugese king statues look rather like British king statues........... Who knew?!?

[Rivanor]

Awesome!!! Great work aceituna~!!

[riquardo]

Well sorry I haven't been with much attention with this thread - I studied in Coimbra and I know that area very well! That statue is in the upper part of the city where the University is (one of the eldest in Europe, I believe). D. Dinis founded it and is known also as the farmer king for his support of that activities.
The papers you see at the base of the statue are often of student parties or other student activities - most of Coimbra's population are university students. If there will be something going on in Coimbra, I'm a half-hour drive from there.

[jasper-]

Searching "King Statue" kept giving me statues of Elvis!

Hooray for aceituna for having found our king!

[brodie]

All right, aceituna! What awesome good luck for us that you joined!

So.

The beach/shoreline/pile of rocks?

Once we've IDed that, we can send it to Ariadne and see what she thinks of our sleuthing.

[mr.judkins]

Wow! Just noticed all these updates now - my brother and I spent a couple hours sifting through photos last night, but to no avail - we laughed that it probably would be found by someone else by (our) morning.

Great to have you on board aceituna!

Looks like we all assumed to early that the Olympic city connection was a definite - which is going to make finding our last landscape all the more difficult...

[Elizabeth123]

I'll go out on a limb here, and say that finding the location of the last photo will be impossible, without first figuring out what the connection is between the five that've been discovered, or getting more information from the PMs. They could be rocks in about ten-thousand places, really. I could even arrange the rocks in my garden to look similar. How big are they? Five meters? Five-hundred? Feel free to look around, of course, but I think spending more time on it without having more information is going to be a waste.

[mr.judkins]

For my own reference, I've been keeping (yet another) Google Map with the locations of these drawings, the postcard coordinates, where the athletes woke up (both in 1888 and now), etc.

I assumed there was a map like this already linked to, but just in case it might help find a connection which leads to our final spot, here is my one...

Chapter 4 Drawing locations in Yellow.
1888 Awakening locations in Green.
2008 Awakening locations in Blue.
Postcard coordinate locations in Purple.

[jasper]

I'm so proud of us!

. . now for the pile of rocks. . .

and it'll be good to figure out how this information is useful!

[danteIL]

[Guest]

All the pictures so far can be found on wikimedia. It's not much of a common link, but it's the best one so far. I'm searching for piles of rocks there, but the best one I've come up with is the Badlands.

Close, but no cigar