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ROTA, in tall cream capitals on a dark blue panel, fills the foot of the sheet, with a thinner line beneath: Cádiz · Andalusia · Spain . Above it, a narrow cobbled street runs between whitewashed and stone houses with iron balconies and glowing lanterns. At its end, a small domed lantern sits on top of an old archway, and behind it a tall white lighthouse with a single red band rises into a deep blue evening sky. Through the street sweep long ribbons of red and golden light, left by passing cars. This is the old town of Rota, on the Bay of Cádiz, at the blue hour, and the poster starts from our own photograph of the same street, which you will find further down. Rota Lighthouse, Golden Light Trails: a vintage travel poster by Sapiens Verbum, from our own photograph. 🖼️ Get this poster as a print → License this image → Quick facts Subject: The old and new lighthouses of Rota, Cádiz, Andalusia Old lighthouse: 1909, a lant...

At sunset the gorge of Ronda turns to gold. Two walls of sandstone drop away into the Tajo, the deep cut carved by the Guadalevín river, and between them stands the Puente Nuevo, a wall of stone from the river bed to the rooftops, its windows and arches lit from within. Houses and hotels line the cliff edges on both sides, a thin waterfall falls into the shadows below, and above it all the sky burns orange, red and violet. It is the most famous view in Ronda. Sunset over Ronda Bridge, El Tajo gorge, Ronda (Málaga). Photograph by Sapiens Verbum. 🖼️ Get this photograph as a print → Quick facts Photographer: Sapiens Verbum Subject: The Puente Nuevo (New Bridge) over El Tajo gorge at sunset, seen from below Location: Puente Nuevo, Ronda, Málaga, Andalusia, Spain The bridge: about 98 metres high, built 1759–1793 of stone quarried in the gorge itself Series: Andalusia A bridge that took 34 years Ronda sits on a rock split in two by th...

Before the sun clears the horizon, Salamanca is only a shape. Against a sky burning from deep amber to pale gold, the twin cathedrals rise as one black silhouette: pinnacles, a tall bell tower, the great dome of the New Cathedral, all cut out as sharply as paper. No stone colour, no carving, no detail — just the outline of eight centuries of building on the hill above the river Tormes, held for a few minutes in the first light of the day. Quick Facts Photographer: Sapiens Verbum Subject: The Old and New Cathedrals of Salamanca in silhouette against a golden sunrise sky Location: Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain Medium: Photograph – Colour Series: Cityscapes Salamanca Cathedral at sunrise, in silhouette. Photograph by Sapiens Verbum. 🖼️ Get this photograph as a print → What looks like one building is in fact two. Salamanca is one of the few cities in Spain with two cathedrals standing side by side. The Old Cathedral of Santa Mar...

Stand on the far bank of the Guadalete at dusk and Arcos de la Frontera arranges itself in layers: the river and its green iron bridge at the bottom, a band of trees, then the white town climbing the ridge, and at the very top the tower of the Basilica of Santa María and the sheer sandstone face of the Peña Nueva catching the last light. This poster keeps that view and finishes it the way a Belle Époque sheet would: ivory, teal and gold, white lilies, and a name in large letters across the top. Arcos de la Frontera, Andalucía, España. Art Nouveau travel poster by Sapiens Verbum, after a photograph by Sapiens Verbum. 🖼️ Get this poster as a print → Browse the full collection → A photograph, held as a poster. The vintage travel series takes a real view and gives it the manners of an early European railway sheet. Here the source is our own photograph of Arcos de la Frontera at dusk, taken from across the Guadalete. ...

Stand low in the nave of Cádiz Cathedral and look up, and the building arranges itself around one point: the honey-coloured stone dome over the crossing, coffered all the way to a small bright oculus at the top. Below it the apse arch opens onto the high altar, the pulpits face each other across the nave, and a star of coloured marble lies on the floor at your feet. This poster keeps that view and finishes it the way a Belle Époque sheet would: ivory, teal and gold, white lilies, and a name in large letters across the top. Cádiz, Catedral, España. Art Nouveau travel poster by Sapiens Verbum, after a photograph by Sapiens Verbum. 🖼️ Get this poster as a print → Browse the full collection → A photograph, held as a poster. The vintage travel series takes a real view and gives it the manners of an early European railway sheet. Here the source is a photograph of the interior of Cádiz Cathedral by Sapiens Verbum. The p...

From the water, Redes is a line of nets before it is a village. The port had no beach to spare. When the boats came in, the sardine nets were hung on wooden frames from Area Morta to Punta do Castelo, and a sailor looking back saw only that: redes, nets, filling the shore. The name stuck. This poster keeps an evening at that port and finishes it the way a Belle Époque sheet would: parchment, lilies, a botanical border where a timetable used to be. Redes, Ares, Galicia. Art Nouveau travel poster by Sapiens Verbum, after a photograph by Sapiens Verbum. 🖼️ Get this poster as a print → Browse the full collection → A photograph, held as a poster. The vintage travel series takes a real view and gives it the manners of an early European railway sheet. Here the source is a photograph of the fishing port of Redes, in Ares, by Sapiens Verbum. The poster is the interpretation. It is not the photograph, and it does not pretend to be. Quick facts Location: ...

FERROL, in tall deep-teal capitals edged in gold, fills the top of the sheet, with a gilded scallop shell tucked beneath the letters. Through the arch below, the Spanish Navy’s training ship sails into the ría under all her canvas, four masts of white sail against misty green hills, while fireboats throw arcs of water into the air and launches and a small white yacht keep her company. Across the water a low fortress and a scatter of houses sit on the far shore, and in the foreground the old stone ramparts of a coastal castle, with their arched vaults, a domed lookout and a palm tree, hold the whole scene like a balcony. At the foot of the frame, beneath an anchor, comes the ship’s name, Juan Sebastián Elcano , and then Galicia · Spain . This is the sixth poster in our series of vintage travel posters, and the second made from a photograph of our own, taken by Sapiens Verbum from the walls of the Castillo de La Palma. Ferrol, Juan Sebastián Elcan...

PONTEDEUME, in tall bottle-green capitals, fills the top of the sheet, and below it, on a cream ribbon, come the words The Eume River & Bridge . Through an arch of leaves and creamy white blossoms the town opens out in the warm light of evening. White and ochre houses with terracotta roofs climb the hillside in tiers, a church tower rises among them, and above the last roofs the woods run up to the skyline. Along the waterfront the lamps are lit, and in front of the town the long stone bridge strides across the estuary on its round arches, every light doubled in the water, while small boats lie at their moorings. At the foot of the frame a panel reads Galicia · Spain . This is the third poster in our series of vintage travel posters, and the first one made not from an archive print but from a photograph of our own, taken by Sapiens Verbum. Pontedeume, The Eume River & Bridge: an Art Nouveau vintage travel poster based on a photograph by Sapiens Verbum. Sapiens Verbum. ...

The sun sits on the Atlantic horizon at Cádiz, and the tide has pulled back far enough to show the reef. Water runs through channels in the dark rock, breaking white as it pours between the ledges. On the right, the stone wall of the Castle of San Sebastián rises from the shore, and its small sentry turret catches the last light. Clouds fan out across the sky in orange and violet. It is the end of the day on the western edge of one of the oldest cities in Western Europe. This first image is an interpretation; the photograph it grew from, taken at the same spot, appears further down. Saint Sebastian Castle, Cádiz: Sunset Over the Rocky Shoreline, an interpretation of the photograph shown below. Sapiens Verbum. 🖼️ Get this photograph as a print → Quick facts Photographer: Sapiens Verbum Subject: Sunset over the rocky shore below the Castle of San Sebastián, with the tide running through the reef Location: Castillo de San Sebastián, La Caleta, Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain Medium: ...