Map that Campus X

Can it be? Number ten?

OK time for a real challenge. Here is a little twist, I'll present two aerial photos, and you tell me

what is the connection?
(that's a big hint)

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By Theodore Price (not verified) on 11 Aug 2006 #permalink

Wow 3hrs and only the slightest beginnings of an answer? C'mon guys!

This is a hard one.

The first picture naturally suggests Italy, but I had to do little research over which Italian cities retain Roman town plans. It is Pavia.

The second picture is a mystery. A lot of pools there, hardly in Europe. Volta worked in Pavia, something to do with electrical connections? Golgi was another famous Pavian.

Since the first pick is Pavia, which is likely Golgi, the second one has got to be in reference to Ramon y Cajal and the controversy between the two on how connections between neurons were formed (not to mention your affinity for posting campuses for Nobels, which the two of them shared). But I cannot find anything similar to that image in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia or Zaragoza, although it looks most similar to areas of Barcelona and Valencia. I'm google mapped out!

By Theodore Price (not verified) on 12 Aug 2006 #permalink

OK, got it: in the second picture we have Instituto Cajal in Madrid, with the half-circle square in front of it.

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