Olympic Iliad
Olympic Iliad, also known as Pasta Tube, is a 1984 steel sculpture by Alexander Liberman, located in the lawn surrounding the Space Needle at Seattle Center in Seattle, Washington, United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: sculpture
- Description: Sculpture in Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Space Needle and Museum of Pop Culture.
Space Needle
Photo: Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, United States. Considered to be an icon of the city, it has been designated a Seattle landmark. Space Needle is situated 450 feet northeast of Olympic Iliad.
Museum of Pop Culture
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Museum of Pop Culture is a nonprofit museum in Seattle, Washington, United States, dedicated to contemporary popular culture. It was founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2000 as the Experience Music Project. Museum of Pop Culture is situated 890 feet northeast of Olympic Iliad.
Seattle Center Monorail
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Seattle Center Monorail is an elevated straddle-beam monorail line in Seattle, Washington, United States. The 0.9-mile monorail runs along 5th Avenue between the Seattle Center and Westlake Center in Downtown Seattle, making no intermediate stops. Seattle Center Monorail is situated 680 feet north of Olympic Iliad.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Uptown and Queen Anne-South Lake Union.
Uptown
Neighborhood
Photo: Wknight94, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lower Queen Anne is a neighborhood in northwestern Seattle, Washington, at the base of Queen Anne Hill. While its boundaries are not precise, the toponym usually refers to the shopping, office, and residential districts to the north and west of Seattle Center.
Queen Anne-South Lake Union
Photo: Lumpytrout, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Northwest of Downtown Seattle, Queen Anne is a hilly residential neighborhood with marvelous views of the city's skyline. Magnolia, a wealthy residential neighborhood, sits on a peninsula west of Queen Anne, separated from Queen Anne by Interbay, an unexpected commercial and industrial strip in the valley between the two hilly neighborhoods.
Belltown
Suburb
Photo: Jmabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Belltown is the most densely populated neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, United States, located on the city's downtown waterfront on land that was artificially flattened as part of a regrading project.
Olympic Iliad
- Categories: sculpture and tourism
- Location: King County, Puget Sound, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.61938° or 47° 37′ 10″ northLongitude
-122.35006° or 122° 21′ 0″ westOpen location code
84VVJJ9X+QXOpenStreetMap ID
node 3211770187OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=sculptureWikidata ID
Q15264048
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