I took care of some chores in Pula today. I visited some offices, I bought a few things in the big stores on the edge of the city, and then I went looking for something interesting to photograph and post about when I got back home.

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After a bit of relaxed thinking, I decided to park the car in the large parking lot in front of the community center Roitz, situated in the big old building that was once a military quarters structure called Karlo Roitz. I mean, the name is Karlo Rojc, but if I write Roitz, it sounds much better than Rojc when read by the voice that talks to you when you use the "listen" option in PeakD or Google Translate.
In this opening shot, you can see the colorful mural painted on the facade of the small house just outside the wall that surrounds the large yard and parking lot of the former military quarters.

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Here you can see almost the entire little house or whatever that building is and the path that leads to it.

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The wall I mentioned earlier is decorated with a nice variety of interesting creatures. In this and the following photograph ...

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... you can see some cute animals in the sea, lake, or river. It took me a minute or two to recognize a bunch of little dogs in these swimming things. I mistook them for pigs at first sight.

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This alien centipede was my favorite from that wall.  
I started with street art but I would also like to show you a bit of architecture in that part of the city. 

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What can I tell you about the building shown in this photograph? Well, nothing, or almost nothing. With a bit of decoration, its windows would look like those gothic windows on palaces built in Venetian style. Since there's no decoration these windows resemble bullets.
That's quite appropriate, I guess, becouse all the large old buildings near Roitz were built by the military in the period when the city was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. 

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Here you can see another large building that once had a military purpose. I don't know what exactly is in there now, but the yard serves as a driving school polygon for beginners. The car shown in the photograph has a driving school sign on its roof. The driving school is probably one of the things situated in the building. 

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On one end of that c-shaped building ...

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... I noticed an interesting cluster of big grid lamps. I don't remember seeing anything like this anywhere else in the city.

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Under the lamps, low on the facade, there is a mural that shows thin people engaged in sports.

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Here you can see one of the smaller buildings from the same Austro-Hungarian period. This one has a fresh, relatively new facade.

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Here you can see two windows ...

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... on the neighboring building of the same type. Next to it, further from the observer in this shot, there is yet another, almost identical building with an old, grungy facade.

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Some windows are walled, and others are still functional.

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In the yard between those buildings, I found a nice collection of paint buckets filled with garbage.

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At some point, a cute cat entered the scene.

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Here you can see a man standing at the main entrance of the community center. As you can see, the entrance is surrounded by street art. 

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This shot shows the entire building and the sea of cars in front of it.

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Here I zoomed in on the windows and the branches of the plane trees. 

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The man came out of the building at the right moment to give a sense of proportions to the architectural elements shown in the photographs and make the scene more interesting in general. 

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These two flat, two-dimensional dudes ...

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... were standing near one of the two entrances to the large parking lot in front of the community center Roitz.

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Here you can see a row of old buildings on one of the streets outside the wall of the community center.

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Afore one of those buildings ...

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... two carpets and something that looked like a sheet or a tablecloth were displayed on the rope stretched between two poles.

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Here you can see two girls passing by another of those buildings. 

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When this photograph that shows the entire building was taken, the girls were further down the road. 

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Here you can see a lovely little balcony from the same area.
In the following photograph ...

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... the focus is again on the art displayed on the wall around the community center.

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This thing looks bullish. Or ram-like. Judging by the red ladder, the imaginary animal is a giant.

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Here you can see a stylized, simplified car, a stylized, simplified man, and some sort of intricate vegetation in the background.

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This lovely dachshund was also painted on the wall. The following triptych...

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... shows the dog's entire body in all its elongated glory.

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This is the longest dachshund I ever saw. 

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In the foreground of this shot, you can see part of an abandoned building with some simple street art on it. 

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And that's it. As always here on Hive, the photographs are my work.