The old town sits below towering limestone cliffs on a sweeping curve in the Tigris, east of Diyarbakir.
At 48 years old and 25 metres tall, the "Whitcoulls Santa" (pictured below) towers in fibreglass splendour over the bookshop on the corner of Queen and Victoria Streets.
After a few laps in its 75-foot-long pool, surrounded by plants and below towering high-rises, I'd feel weightless and warm as I lumbered along like a manatee.
Some experts say the recommendations could effectively result in limiting the height of high-rises in the United States, and could discourage the use of commonplace designs, like open, arching atriums below towering office structures.
Each city also feels unique and distinct; New York's mixes multi-lane wide roads and narrow streets residing below towering skyscrapers that point accusingly at an overcast sky, while Miami is a sun-kissed playground of beaches, bridges and boulevards.
Below, watch the tower arise in under three minutes, as if by magic. .
Some relatives have also protested that arrangement, saying that they want nothing to breach the area below the tower footprints all the way down to the bedrock, six floors below ground.
Two male black rhinos are huffing and grumbling out their differences just below the tower in a darkness one can know only in wild places.
Nadia Scartaccini, who moved here from Italy 26 years ago and now works in the Bata shoe store just below the tower, believes him.
"Basically, we want to batten down the hatches," said their boss, George Czerniewski, standing below a tower not far from the Indian Point nuclear power plant.
This maneuver wasn't as easy as it may sound, and the cathedral roof below the tower was spattered with coins that had failed to reach their target, several of them mine.
