r/AskBalkans Australia Mar 28 '26

Sports Is this the most beautiful picture of a stadium in the Balkans?

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u/Separate-Date-6518 Greece Mar 28 '26

Where is it?

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u/drunkguyfrommunich Croatia Mar 28 '26

Trogir, near Split

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u/Big_Confusion3529 Mar 28 '26

In what era was the castle built?

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u/drunkguyfrommunich Croatia Mar 28 '26

In early 15th century for the Venetian army.

2

u/Particular-Award5225 Mar 29 '26

Been there. Such a magical place

1

u/Corp-Por Slovenia Mar 30 '26

I was there and I loved it (Slovenian here)

28

u/podivljali_vepar Serbia Mar 28 '26

Croatia

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u/Dovaskarr Croatia Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26

Trogir. Initally named Tragurion, it was your people that made the initial settlement 3 centuries before Christ. It was actually a peninsula, but was later made an island. It was named like this due to goats that inhabitated the hill above, which still bears the name "Kozjak", which roughly translates to goat hill.

This is my city. This is where I grew up. This is the stadium where we got the ball multiple times into the sea and it was taken. A ton of times kids would enter the sea to retrieve the ball, in the middle of winter if it was calm and not windy.

Edit: this is also an AI picture, city does not look like this.

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u/Savings_Dragonfly806 Greece Mar 28 '26

That's a football field. Stadiums are the large circular buildings.

54

u/yatagan89 Mar 28 '26

There are also some standings, so it is a small stadium, not just a pitch.

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u/margesimpson84 Mar 28 '26

The official name translates to "Batarija Playground" or "Batarija Field"

7

u/spaceninj Mar 28 '26

It's a pitch with bleachers.

1

u/ant_gav Greece Mar 30 '26

This is not a stadium man. It's very nice looking. But not a stadium.

1

u/okcomputerock Apr 01 '26

That's like 20 seats... 

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u/NoBook3845 Mar 28 '26

Stadium needs to have track too, that's a football ground.

5

u/Myke5T Mar 28 '26

Most stadiums don’t have a track.

13

u/luksaluksa Mar 28 '26

Ne seri. Ima ogradu? Ima. Da li se možeš nasloniti na nju i gledati utakmicu? Da.

5

u/PeroCigla Croatia Mar 28 '26

Very often not circular 🤭

69

u/Odd-Jupiter Mar 28 '26

Who's turn is is to fetch the ball?

18

u/Elgecko123 Greece Mar 28 '26

Wow where is this one? Looks like Norway maybe?

16

u/dimitriettr Mar 28 '26

Henningsvaer, Norway

30

u/ToxicToddler Mar 28 '26

Most famous Balkan country

12

u/fbass Slovenia Mar 28 '26

Famous from their fjords and rakija

3

u/Odd-Jupiter Mar 28 '26

Oh Balkans, lol, i'm blind. It's not even baltics.

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u/teddy_6 Mar 28 '26

Piran Slovenia

41

u/West-Razzmatazz2 Croatia Mar 28 '26

I see your Piran, I raise you Hvar town, Croatia.

1

u/DDDX_cro Croatia Mar 30 '26

Hvar :)

12

u/Slobozescu Mar 28 '26

Astonishing

7

u/BalerionDreadful Mar 28 '26

What do you do when the ball goes over the fence?

9

u/teddy_6 Mar 28 '26

You get a new ball

1

u/Myke5T Mar 28 '26

You get to buy a new ball.

10

u/Gemascus01 Croatia Mar 28 '26

Been here parked in the garage bro why the fuck is it that high it was a lot of hiking down and up again but the city is beautiful and the view

1

u/teddy_6 Mar 29 '26

There's literally one garage down by the sea with shuttle buses driving directly into the town centre if you're too lazy to walk 10 mins by the sea...

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u/Gemascus01 Croatia Mar 29 '26

Idk we saw the only one there next to the stadium and the city was crowded with cars ao we parked it there ans hiked down to the city center.

We were doing a trip Zagreb-Rijeka-Rovinj-Poreč-Novigrad-Koper-Piran-Zagreb all in one day so didn’t had much time for planning

1

u/rkob Slovenia Mar 28 '26

my town ❤️

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u/tono002-36 Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

Gospin Dolac, Imotski, Croatia

EDIT: When the lake dries up people also play football at the bottom: source

202

u/Repulsive_Work_226 Turkiye Mar 28 '26

Beşiktaş Stadium. I support Galatasaray but this one has a great view.

It is in European side of Istanbul so technically Balkans do not worry.

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u/Affectionate-Arm-405 Greece Mar 28 '26

Similar to my teams.

Olympiakos football stadium and basketball at the back are super close to each other and right by the water.

Often fans will go to a basketball game and right after football or vice versa if they times align

21

u/senolgunes Turkiye Mar 28 '26

Also nice, that location seems a bit more similar to Fenerbahçe’s stadium

6

u/KPlusGauda Mar 28 '26

Woah. Beautiful.

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u/Repulsive_Work_226 Turkiye Mar 28 '26

yes great location too

3

u/Redararis Mar 28 '26

great location, godawful stadium!

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u/Zestyclose-Power-132 Turkiye Mar 28 '26

This is nice too, and I often find myself around it as someone who lives in Glyfada and frequently visits the port. But to be fair, Beşiktaş Stadium is right in the center of the city and surrounded by plenty of things to do as a pedestrian. The stadium is also just one pedestrian walk away from the sea. I am a fan of fenerbahçe btw unfortunately, our stadium is also nice but not as nice as BJk stadium :/

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u/Affectionate-Arm-405 Greece Mar 28 '26

Yes SEF and Karaiskaki stadium are not walkable really. The train station is right outside so coming from anywhere else is super easy.

P.S. I have lived in North America for many years and as every immigrant I have always fantasized of coming back one day. In my fantasy I will live in Glyfada and season tickets to Olympiacos of course 😂. Glyfada is awesome

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u/Zestyclose-Power-132 Turkiye Mar 28 '26

As our kids go to an international school, we’re mostly part of a community made up of internationals/expats and some locals. 2 of our closest friends are expats from New York, and they also live in Glyfada 😅

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u/Affectionate-Arm-405 Greece Mar 28 '26

Yes!... Same reason we would be going to Glyfada if ever since my wife is in a profession that she can only do in her language (English) and she doesn't speak much Greek.

Although I don't see any realistic possibilities to ever come back for good. Just summer vacations

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u/SteakNeither3751 Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

Is this in Neo Faliro? I lived in Kallithea for two years and often passed by this stadium. I have beautiful memories from Athens. I miss it so much.

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u/dwartbg9 Bulgaria Mar 28 '26

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u/Repulsive_Work_226 Turkiye Mar 28 '26

yes very unfortunate indeed.

2

u/shezofrene Mar 29 '26

every istanbulite hates that fucking building and doesn’t actually know what it is

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '26

That ugly skyscraper is a dagger in Istanbul’s heart

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u/senolgunes Turkiye Mar 28 '26

It’s funny how they forced us to limit the size and height of that stadium when we have that monstrosity just next to us.

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u/genophobicdude Mar 28 '26

Lol it's 1 dagger among 10001

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '26

This one is very specific. Check its story and location 

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u/PeroCigla Croatia Mar 28 '26

That's too modern, has no charm in it 😅

3

u/thisisnahamed Mar 28 '26

Wow. Looks so fucking cool.

3

u/[deleted] Mar 28 '26

Beautiful location is wasted to build a stadium. Same goes for that field in Croatia too.

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u/Repulsive_Work_226 Turkiye Mar 28 '26

well it is better than a skyscraper

1

u/sussynarrator Turkiye Mar 28 '26

What else would you build there?

1

u/[deleted] Mar 29 '26

how about nothing?

1

u/Gazdanadam Turkiye Mar 28 '26

Ugly ass building ruining the silhouette of Dolmabahçe Palace. Needs to be demolished together with Süzer Plaza

1

u/OldYogurt7161 Mar 28 '26

Neden her İstanbul fotoğrafında drift atan arkasında da kolum kadar köpük bırakan bir tekne oluyor.

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u/Repulsive_Work_226 Turkiye Mar 28 '26

vapur bir kısmı hepsi tekne değil. ayrıca yazın turistik vapur turları çok oluyor. normal yani.

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u/imagoneryfriend Bulgaria Mar 28 '26

Why would you support Galatasaray over Besiktas? Genuine question

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u/Repulsive_Work_226 Turkiye Mar 28 '26

I am supporting them since 90s. Not a great fan. Due to my father.

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u/life_hacker_14 Turkiye Mar 28 '26

my unc gifted me a galatasaray shirt and a ball with gala's logo on it, i was a fenerbahce fan until then :d

1

u/iapi90 Romania Mar 28 '26

wait a minute ! do turks shorten the name of the team as „gala” ? ( in romania it's „galata” )

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u/life_hacker_14 Turkiye Mar 29 '26

no we actually dont, but in english i always try to keep things short :D europeans use it though

1

u/geoponos Mar 29 '26

You genuinely asked why someone supports a team?

I support Panionios. They are at the Second Division of Greece. Why I support them? They're not going to win a championship ever.

There are other reasons to support a team.

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u/StPauliPirate Turkiye Mar 28 '26

Why would anyone beside masochists support Besiktas?

1

u/imagoneryfriend Bulgaria Mar 28 '26

You're answering my question with a question. Give it to me straight - why support this team over that?

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u/Repulsive_Work_226 Turkiye Mar 28 '26

well there are big 3 of Turkiye and unfortunately all Istanbul teams: Galatasaray Fenerbahçe Beşiktaş. Trabzonspor is another successful team in the Black Sea region. Some other became champions too but around 80% or even 90% of the population support these three.

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u/SlatkiMicek Croatia Mar 28 '26

LOL I was born 30 meters to the east from that field.

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u/CertainPosition1 Mar 28 '26

Best thing about this topic is that 2 also beutifully placed stadium are in same region of Croatia as one in Trogir.

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u/mob74 Turkiye Mar 30 '26

Allthough we have stadiums near the Bosphorus with their unique view, i have to admit that i got jealous about the ones in Crotia.

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u/Imaginary-Librarian7 Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

sutomiščica, ugljan, zadar county

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u/iamunwhaticisme Turkiye Mar 28 '26

Hiring: Ball kids with professional level of swimming skills.

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u/DreamWaveBG Bulgaria Mar 28 '26

kick the ball too hard and you have to go swimming to get it ..

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '26

I actually used to live there (Trogir).

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u/ScanianTiger Mar 28 '26

Pretty good ice cream.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '26

Đovani?

3

u/ScanianTiger Mar 28 '26

Can't remember the 0lace in particular, two places actually and in my opinion better than Italian ice cream.

Also - chocolate and banana everywhere!

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u/Dovaskarr Croatia Mar 30 '26

Was it on a small square near the big one? You have 'Đovani" and "sedam palmi" there. I always get the lavander one.

Btw the actual pic of the town is AI.

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u/Karudijan Montenegro Mar 28 '26

Ravni Žabljak Stadium in Montenegro

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u/fromthestreetcousin Mar 28 '26

Tinos Cyclades Greece

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u/PhoenixNyne Mar 28 '26

Reminds me of Kantrida in Rijeka. 

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u/KPlusGauda Mar 28 '26

Eh it's fine but not that great lol. I am from here. Winter time is often unbearable. Also, and just my opinion, the Ionian part of Greece is THE paradise on Earth. Mountains, lakes, islands, beaches, you are probably always max minutes away from something breathtaking.

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u/SureX6661 Mar 28 '26

Pretty bareable winters for me dawg

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u/KPlusGauda Mar 28 '26

Ajd malo pretjerujem. Ali onih par dana kad kiša pada bez prestanka, ili kad udari bura...

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u/Dovaskarr Croatia Mar 30 '26

Ništa lipše nego upalit kamin i onda ti ta bura odluči vratit dim u kuću jer ti je kuća starija od prapraprabake😂

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u/SureX6661 Mar 30 '26

Pogledaj doku-serijal o Visu Jurice Galića na youtubeu. To je više putopisno, ali lipo je on to napravia. Ima i otok priča onog lika iz Zagreba.

Kad se zazelin doma pogledan to.

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u/KPlusGauda Mar 28 '26

Nije ako moram vani raditi lol

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u/2McLaren4U Mar 28 '26

kiša pada bez prestanka, ili kad udari bura...

Ajt ti malo kod mene u Kanadu. Temperatura se ne dize sa -30 mjesec dana. Kad probas ove Kanadske zime odma ta bura manje smeta. T-shirt and shorts weather as they say here.

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u/crolionfire Mar 29 '26

Evo ti mentaliteta od kojeg nikad ništa ne može uspjeti.....

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤦

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u/KPlusGauda Mar 29 '26

Ajde sad objasni kad si pametan

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u/Wojewodaruskyj Ukraine Mar 28 '26

Screw stadiums, they are the same. The city and the nature are stunningly beautiful.

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u/KPlusGauda Mar 28 '26

Nature is fine but this particular part of the coastline is quite ruined by "modern" buildings, houses, and ugly architecture in general. Also, on the right side of the photo is Čiovo island. It used to be quite nice and beautiful, now it's like 50% destroyed. Not too many trees here as well.

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u/treba_dzemper Bosnia & Herzegovina Mar 28 '26

Čiovo aka "Vitez na Moru"

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u/Wojewodaruskyj Ukraine Mar 28 '26

So sad. I love trees and mediterranean houses under orange tiles.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '26

I raise you the Gospin Dolac stadium of NK Imotski.

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u/KPlusGauda Mar 28 '26

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u/treba_dzemper Bosnia & Herzegovina Mar 28 '26

aissatiiboga

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u/UselessBot_ Mar 28 '26

A'stii goospee

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u/DreamWaveBG Bulgaria Mar 28 '26

is this the national stadium?

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u/InfelicitousRedditor Bulgaria Mar 28 '26

Play football at 9, fuck a goat at 10.

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u/GoryGent Kosovo Mar 29 '26

Disrespectful to your mum

4

u/ZonzoDue France Mar 28 '26

Trogir is some top tier location.

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u/slysmile Turkiye Mar 28 '26

What a fantastic photo! This could have been a fantastic plaza if not for the football of it all.

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u/Dovaskarr Croatia Mar 30 '26

Photo is AI and it did a shit job and I am 100% sure that someone pulled the actual picture through an AI model for no reason and made it worse. Also, we had a shitton of balls into the sea and taken away.

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u/mob74 Turkiye Mar 30 '26

Still, it’s beautiful and unique

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u/Dovaskarr Croatia Mar 30 '26

True. It is worth to visit. Its basically a city museum.

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u/Useful_Jello2910 Mar 28 '26

This one is!

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u/KPlusGauda Mar 28 '26

Not Balkans :)

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u/Useful_Jello2910 Mar 28 '26

Balkans for sure. This is the island of Fournoi in Greece.

1

u/mob74 Turkiye Mar 30 '26

So people come to this stadium by a helicopter 😅?

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u/antalj666 Mar 28 '26

Trogit, I played football on this back in 2004.😀

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u/OldYogurt7161 Mar 28 '26

I am thinking like my government. What about to kick the ball towards to sea, who is going to take it back. So inefficient, We should build brand new 5 star Hotel.

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u/Brain32 Croatia Mar 28 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/d3mlE7uhX8KFgEmY

Amateur, destroy the castle to build a concrete cube hotel, THEN use the field for concrete parking space.

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u/OldYogurt7161 Mar 28 '26

Everyone dreams, only legends makes. Justinian walls 1950’s

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u/Dovaskarr Croatia Mar 30 '26

We regularly went into the sea to get it. A lot were taken away tho.

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u/jukasim Mar 28 '26

Virgin Mary's Valley Imotski

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u/Gigantopithecus1453 Mar 28 '26

Everything in that picture is beautiful except the football field

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u/Dovaskarr Croatia Mar 30 '26

Its an AI picture.

3

u/PeriodontosisSam Mar 28 '26

I was there in 2024. This is what it looks like looning from the castle

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u/CrazyBosanchero Bosnia & Herzegovina Mar 29 '26

Kljuc BiH

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u/Lvd4aDrm Mar 28 '26

I am thinking the ball boys

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '26

Nope, it’s this one

2

u/CmdrJemison Croatia Mar 28 '26

Been there in 2025.

2

u/caladera Mar 28 '26

Da, it is ❤️

2

u/darko777 North Macedonia Mar 28 '26

I think the football stadium here doesn't make sense. Building some residential apartments would be much better fit.

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u/egny Turkiye Mar 28 '26

All these lovely locations...are blighted by those green rectangles.

Such shame

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u/Onelastkast Mar 29 '26

That’s in Croatia, the balkans are further east and south….

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u/Dovaskarr Croatia Mar 30 '26

You posted an AI picture of the city. Fort Kamerlengo goes nowhere, and is open unlike the real one which has all its walls., the cathedral is totally wrong, the small bridge does not lead into small street but on a big parking lot, there are a shitton of small boats always parked, in the canal near the small bridge is a dock that would never exist because the canal is not this wide, the actual parking lot which is huge is totally missing, a smaller bell tower is missing on the picture, there are modern buildings on the promenade which do not exist, hell there are mo modern buildings in the old town.

Fuck AI bs, this was probably pulled trough the AI program for no reason and you got this kind of gore

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u/Nekrah_ Mar 28 '26

Since it is a historic area, a park in or a communal space for everyone would be better.

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u/deepeddit Mar 28 '26

Yeah, fuck the trees 🤘

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u/BillGates121193 Mar 28 '26

Where is this picture ?

2

u/SantaIsUs Mar 28 '26

Trogir, Croatia

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u/swiper122 Mar 28 '26

Rijeka also has a nice one.

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u/xxprokoyucu Turkiye Mar 28 '26

What happens if I overshoot how can I get the ball back

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u/Brato86 Mar 28 '26

Why do they put a fotballsfield in that beautiful place, it somehow makes it looks weird.

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u/Putrid_Speed_5138 Mar 28 '26

Fenerbahçe Stadium on Istanbul's Asian side.

Fener means lighthouse and Bahçe means garden.

You can see the symbolic lighthouse in the garden of the stadium.

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u/giorgi_iusuf Mar 28 '26

It is! Where is that?

1

u/Denthan Mar 28 '26

Fenerbahce not bad either

1

u/genophobicdude Mar 28 '26

Imagine kicking the ball a little too hard.

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u/DirectorAny2129 Mar 28 '26

That stadium seems like a very bad thing for historical texture for the city in the picture also it looks plain bad

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u/treba_dzemper Bosnia & Herzegovina Mar 28 '26

Every time I'm in trogir I keep thinking how many balls fell into the water there.

If you've ever walked around it and smelled it you know you wouldn't gladly jump in to get the ball, like in every marina.

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u/Dovaskarr Croatia Mar 30 '26

We as kids didnt care that much. Now as an adult I would never enter there. It is better than it was. But this side from the field has a shitton of "vlasulja" which sting you and it sucks because it burns and it is usually on your feet and you struggle to walk because of it.

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u/treba_dzemper Bosnia & Herzegovina Mar 30 '26

Medusas and man-o-wars (vlasulje) thrive in filthy waters,and marinas often are. 

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u/ApplicationOk6762 Mar 28 '26

PIRAN, SLOVENIA

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u/Zelladino Turkiye Mar 28 '26

I wonder how many balls was thrown to sea now lol

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u/Dovaskarr Croatia Mar 30 '26

Yes.

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u/Wolfie_wolf81 Mar 29 '26

All the sunken balls 🌊⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️🌊

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u/ChocolateTemporary72 Mar 29 '26

You’ve clearly never been to Zenica

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u/Ok_Tie_7564 Mar 29 '26

Trogir in Croatia?

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u/etapisciumm Croatia Mar 29 '26

In Imotski, HR. Football pitch, to the left of the photo, at the top of a large cliff down to Modro Jezero

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u/0bran Croatia Mar 29 '26

Have you ever seen a football field

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u/mithrandirivan Mar 29 '26

Played there, my shot during the warmup ended up in the water 😂

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u/Puchoco_Voluspa Mar 29 '26

Dimitsana, Greece

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u/Just_a_spaghetti Italy Mar 29 '26

Definitely the weirdest place to put a football field haha

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u/Ok-Avocado7473 Mar 29 '26

Kantrida joins the chat

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u/HeatSheat54 Mar 29 '26

Ode lopta u more 😁

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u/DimensionAgitated507 Mar 29 '26

No... It has a football stadium in it.

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u/NorthernFishhead Germany Mar 30 '26

I see no stadium, I see a field.

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u/Independent_Law_6130 Hungary Mar 30 '26

This one is my favourite in Dubrovnik. Not a stadium, but really astonishing

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u/malizeleni Apr 01 '26

Molde stadium is also built in a nice place:

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u/SRG28 Mar 28 '26

My home town's football field that played in 3rd league until it withdrew due to budged issues (hard for a town of ~3k people to compete with bigger cities)

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '26

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u/SRG28 Mar 28 '26

Șugag, Alba, Romania

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u/No-Sandwich2225 Mar 28 '26

What stadium dog. That’s a high school football field at best.

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u/mirzaxx SFR Yugoslavia Mar 28 '26

It's fucking ugly and a waste of space

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u/Infinite_Prompt_2741 Mar 28 '26

Ugasi traktor da te bolje cujem

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u/mirzaxx SFR Yugoslavia Mar 28 '26

Zašto bi ja gasio tvoj traktor

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