Puzzle Description

Kevin Walsh's set of four 500 piece puzzles transports you to the far flung cities of Paris, Rome, San Francisco and Melbourne. As you piece together each jigsaw, you can experience the beautiful streets found in France’s capital and the magnificent architecture of Rome. Rather ingeniously Kevin has added Melbourne in Australia and San Francisco in northern California. And all without leaving the comfort of your living home! This 4 x 500 box set is called Cities of the World (G5044), each puzzle measures 49 x 34 cms when complete.

As can be seen, both Melbourne and San Francisco have trams. There used to be more trams but they have, to a large extent, been covered over. Trams were originally horse drawn and, as you can imagine, must have made a tremendous mess. You can still occasionally see where the road surface has deteriorated and cobble begin to appear alongside metal rails.

Trams nowadays are a more clean method of public transportation and reduce engine emissions drastically. Kevin always manages to show us his skills when it comes to the automobiles and buses of the particular era he has decided to paint for us. All four puzzles have cars of differing time periods and you can be sure they are accurately rendered.

The Rome puzzle with its triumphal arch and glimpse of the Colosseum are not quite accurate geographically but are accurately shown how they appear today. These monuments to Roman greatness are almost 2000 years old. The triumphal arches were built to memorialise a Roman military victory. In ancient Rome glory and fame were important to any military man as victories, by their very nature were ephemeral and any general with his eye on a seat in the senate or, higher still, aspiring to the consulship or later on, to become emperor would expect such a monument would enhance his standing in the patrician community. It was the patrician class, for the most part, that decided on how high a man might go in public life.

The Colosseum which is also known as the Flavian amphitheatre was built by the Flavian dynasty in Imperial Rome. Such a building and the bloody spectacles it held would make the emperor even more popular with the Roman citizenry.

As with all Gibsons jigsaws, the beautifully illustrated pieces are made from the highest quality 100% recycled board and therefore a pleasure to work with again and again.

***All order shipped from Canada Puzzles are packed in custom fitted, heavy duty cardboard boxes and are fully insured against loss or damage.***