Lias jigsaw puzzles: buildings

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2026-06-07

Completed 7th June 2026

500 Pieces

The 450th Birthday of William Shakespeare

April 1564 - 23.4.1616

Falcon (NL)

The collage shows on top:

left: 16th c. built birthhouse of William Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon

middle: rebuilt "The Globe" in London

right: The Gower Memorial, created in 1888 by Lord Ronald Gower

in the middle

left: book spines

left2: "Ophelia" by John William Waterhouse, 1894

middle: The Flower Portrait, 1609 - belongs to the Royal Shakespeare Company Collection and is considered an authentic depiction of the world-famous author

right: 15th c. built Anne Hathaways Cottage, Shottery - Birthplace of Williams wife

below

left: Knot Garden, next to Nash's House

right: 16th c. built Nash's House, last place of residence of William Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon

2026-05-03

Completed 1st May 2026

560 Pieces

Swallow's Nest, Crimea

Ukraine: Ластівчине гніздо

The Swallow's Nest is a decorative castle located at Gaspra, a small spa town between Yalta and Alupka on the Crimean peninsula. It was built between 1911 and 1912, on top of the 40-metre-high Aurora Cliff, in a Neo-Gothic style for Pavel Leonardovich von Steingel, a Russian noble with German roots. The building is compact in size, measuring only 20 m long by 10 m wide.

Restoration of the building began in 1968. The project involved the restoration of a small portion of the castle and the addition of a monolithic console concrete plate to strengthen the cliff.

Swallow's Nest is depicted on a coin of the National Bank of Ukraine.

Jigsaw puzzle by Step Puzzle (Russia)

2026-04-27

A stroll in the park of a Benedictine Abbey

In 2014 a group of friends travelled to Rome to visit the Vatican and give a present to the late Pope Francis. It was a very special atmosphere being in Rome and as a group, as well. It was outstandingly peaceful.

Since then we meet as often as we can and last saturday we finally met again.

Just enjoy the impressions of a perfect day in spring, a perfect sky and perfect sweets :-)))

The entrance to the church dedicated to Christ the King, marked with a huge door named the Portal to Paradise

Entrance to the shop where you can buy things manufactured in the Abbey

Entrance to the parc

In an area located a little further backpart of the parc the monks create a new herb and vegetable garden

After this long walk we met at the cafe and ended the visit with many memories of our trip to Rome

all photographies taken by me, April 2026.

2026-04-03

Completed 3rd April 2026

500 Pieces

Stained glass window depicting the Queen of Sheba visiting King Salomon

13th century

Canterbury Cathedral

2026-02-22

Completed 22nd February 2026

500 Pieces

Ahrensburg Castle

Era: renaissance

Ahrensburg Castle is located in the town of Ahrensburg, named after the castle district, in southern Schleswig-Holstein, about 30 kilometres northeast of Hamburg city centre. The small moated castle is actually a manor house and, as such, was once the centre of a noble estate.

I visited the castle in 2012 and transferred a photography into a jigsaw puzzle. Now I have awakened it from its slumber