04 October 2008

Window bars

This could be a typical image of many streets and alleys of Taiwan.

Window bars in the facades of buildings. Not only in the lower floors, but almost in all of them. The more modern buildings don't have them, but they are very frequent in the rest of them. I also saw many in Lanzhou, in China. I don't really know why, but apart from the tiled facades, the bars in balconies and windows are one of the first things I saw in the cities around here. Not quite beautiful, but you get used to them. In time, you even begin distinguishing different styles and some are very nice. A little like balconies in Barcelona.

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