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Avenida de Las Artes Wherigo Cache

Hidden : 9/7/2015
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

View just a small portion of South Tucson's multitude of beautiful tile art. Short daytime-only Wherigo with nine locations plus the final, all within 0.6 mile. Takes about 20 minutes by car. Total walking/biking distance is about 1.2 miles ( but does not form a loop). Take a buddy and be well aware of surroundings. Bring paper and pencil.


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Tips about Wherigos:

As with all Wherigos, make sure you have uploaded the most recent version of the cartridge before you go. Often COs make changes to the cartridge and if you have the older version you will have glitches when you go to use it. So just upload it again the day you plan to go.

If you are at a zone and there is a glitch of some kind, step 30 feet away and try to enter the zone again.

Save frequently during cartridge use.

To learn more about Wherigo: http://www.wherigo.com/

To play the cartridge, you will need a Wherigo-enabled device. (For Andriod the app is called "WhereYouGo") info here

Tilography can be made from any photograph or drawing, in multiple colors, on any solid surface, such as walls, buildings, pools, fountains, and more. Tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, or even glass, generally used for covering roofs, floors, walls, showers, or other objects such as tabletops.

Tiles are most often made of ceramic, typically glazed for internal uses and unglazed for roofing, but other materials are also commonly used, such as glass, cork, concrete and other composite materials, and stone.

Decorative tile work should be distinguished from mosaic, which is usually made of glass or sometimes ceramic. Mosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. It is a technique of decorative art or interior decoration. Most mosaics are made of small, flat, roughly square, pieces of stone or glass of different colors, known as tesserae.

Mosaic art has a long history. The earliest known examples of mosaics were found at a temple building in Abra, Mesopotamia, and are dated to the second half of third millennium BC. They consist of pieces of colored stones, shells and ivory.

In the earliest organized civilizations in mainland Greece, (c. 1600 to 1100 BC) pebble mosaics were made with patterns and pictures and became widespread in classical times, both in ancient Greece and ancient Rome. Early Christian basilicas from the fourth century and afterwards were decorated with wall and ceiling mosaics. Mosaic was widely used on religious buildings and palaces in early Islamic art, including Islam's first great religious building, the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.

Photo of vintage neon sign

Mosaic art of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Zntargvp anab, fcrpvny ervasbeprzrag mbar

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)