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I'll do some wild guessing here, please tell me where I'm wrong.
This ruin is on the edge of the flood plain of a river which has been canalised. The birds may be snowy egrets which have a wide habitat from 0° to ~±45° latitude. What was the purpose of the building? I don't suppose it was a prison, as being too obvious from the previous one. So why would one build such a place remote from other habitations? My guess is that it may have exploited some local produce or mineral, as it looks in no way defensive. The more obvious answer to this line of reasoning is the produce from the flood plain, some form of grain mill? But where would the workers come from? I suggest that the LH part may be where they lived. Is that a chapel on the extreme left? I don't think the vegetation on the hills is very useful; it could be any type of forest. Nor is the architectural style.
OK, here goes: it was a monastery used by a working order of monks in the ex-communist bloc of Europe, possibly in the lower reaches of the Danube or some other river flowing into the Black Sea.
Check out this one...I've met some people from this particular place, it's definitely on my "Must-Go" destination list. Googling for images from it just wetted this desire even more
Could be S. Europe from the vegetation, possibly N. Africa. The viaduct could be late 19th c, from the style, and the high span in the middle suggests there may be navigable water under it??? There is a suggestion of what may be road traffic, but the photo isn't clear enough to be sure.
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