EXPO.02

Highlights from

ARTEPLAGE MURTEN-MORAT

Plan of Arteplage Murten-Morat

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THE MONOLITH
I was at EXPO-02 Arteplage-MURTEN on a beautiful 
sunny day and wanted to visit the MONOLITH, 
the strange looking, rusted steel cube floating 
200 meters offshore. 



At the beginning of the queue for the boat, 
75 minutes waiting time was indicated.. 



It was a mistake (One should visit the Monolith 
either on a rainy day or buy a special reservation 
ticket - that I learned later). 

   

Waiting at the queue 50 minutes to get to the boat, 
then 35 minutes at the ground floor watching 
the panoramic slide show

   

   

   

and another 25 minutes before the stairs 
at the upper floor looking at Murten 
through the perforated steel plates, 

   

finally, after nearly 2 hours, I reached the glorious 
111 m long and 10.5 m high panorama of 
the BATTLE OF MURTEN
 
which took place on
 
June 22, 1476
 
I was amazed with the magnificient painting and, 
in spite of the opposition of my legs, I decided 
to create a digital copy of that. 

During the next 30 minutes, fighting with the crowd 
(the second battle of Murten, dated 19.07.2002 !!) 
to get proper view point for each segment, I managed 
to take 53 digital photos with 1024x768 format 
(300-350 KB each). 



Then, at home, with a tedious cut and paste process, 
I created the digital panorama.. Unfortunately, either 
the photo proceessors I have or my PC system could 
not handle a picture longer than 10000 dots, I had 
to reduce the size of each photo to 640x480, then I 
could paste them to each other. The resultant panorama 
photo has 7736x566 dots and it is about 1.2 MB in size. 

Assuming somebody would like to have a copy of 
the panorama, I am putting 1/4 sized (1934x142 dots with 
107 KB ) copy of the panorama, in order to shorten 
the downloding time.. 

One can see 1/2 sized (3868x283 dots with  376 KB) 
copy of the panorama by clicking on the following image.

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If you are interested in having the full size panorama 
or any segment of it (denoted by the segment indicators 
I have added to the 1/2 sized panorama), 
I shall gladly send them by e-mail.
 
Please mail to: e.ermutlu@bluewin.ch



The other interesting pavillon at Murten is:
THE BLIND COW
That is what one can see in there...



Note:  NO flash is allowed !!!


Click on the following images
to see the highlights
of the corresponding arteplages.


                         
                            
      
                                                            
                    



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Updated on October 20, 2002