Thursday, October 7, 2010

Interesting Facts about Mestia, No.7

UFOlogists, this seems to be the place for you - SETI surely means the acronym of the famous Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, no?  Is this magnificent town, crowned with the largest number of stone watchtowers in the world, also the headquarters of SETI?!  (And the towers perhaps line up to make... an astronomical observatory rivaling Stonehenge... an exact recreation of one of the Nazca figures... a certain constellation viewed from a certain location at a certain time in the Universe...?
Sadly, no, it seems.  Seti was a person, though I have yet to find out who he or she was.  And Seti Square is no less - and no more - than the main square of Mestia, focus of much of the town's ambitious current renovation project, as I have mentioned earlier.  Perhaps less exciting, but there it is.  I'm STILL delighted to be living here, for all my love of The X-files.

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