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This front door is from Scotland. The small fishing village of Footdee can be found at the mouth of Aberdeen (Scotland) harbour. Footdee is locally pronounced as “fittie”. It is a collection of old cottages originaly housed by fishermen and their families. Walking around this area, which is only two streets lined with picturesque cottages, it is not hard to imagine how it must have once been.

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The town of Ouro Preto, meaning Black Gold, is a city in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, a former colonial mining town located in the Serra do Espinhaço mountains. Ouro Preto has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO because of its outstanding Baroque architecture. This is an extremely picturesque place with small, hilly, streets and houses with wrought iron hand rails and decorative trimmings. This front door (and windows) is a very typical one.

Ouro Preto

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All along this street in Den Bosch, the Netherlands, the buildings all have names. In this one, the name is seen on the plaque above the door.  De Gulden Engel translates to “The Golden Angel”.

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