1No cars, no tourists. The Luxor obelisk looks lonely in the Place de la Concorde in Paris in a March 18 image. Andrea Mantovani The New York Times / Contact 2Advertising signs continue to illuminate Times Square in New York on March 19. Todd Heisler The New York Times / Contact 3A security guard walks through the Prambanan temple complex in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on March 20. Ulet I Fansasti The New York Times / Contact 4Almost no one steps on the stairs of the Sydney Opera House, a tourist landmark in the Australian city photographed on March 20. Matthew Abbott The New York Times / Contact 5Two people with a mask walk along the Rambla de Sant Josep on March 25 in a deserted city of Barcelona. Massimiliano Minocri 6 Security personnel at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on March 19. Alyssa Schukar The New York Times / Contact 7Inhabitants of São Paulo, Brazil, remain confined to their homes on March 19. Victor Moriyama The New York Times / Contact 8The Madrid street of Alcalá and its famous completely solitary door. Without people, without cars. Samuel Sánchez The New York Times / Contact 9A man walks alone on March 17 through a central plaza in Caracas. Loureiro Fernández The New York Times / Contact 10Via dei Condotti from the stairs of Piazza di Spagna, in Rome, on March 21. Alessandro Penso The New York Times / Contact 11A subway station in Munich, without people, on March 21. Laetitia Vancon The New York Times / Contact 12Acía, the beach of Santa Monica (California, USA) was barely recognizable on March 18. Philip Cheung The New York Times / Contact 13Two citizens walk through the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in downtown Seoul, South Korea, on March 20, 2020. Woohae Cho The New York Times / Contact 14 Empty highways in Bogotá, in an image taken on March 20. Federico Rios The New York Times / Contact 15The Alexanderplatz, Berlin, barely traveled on March 15. Emi Le Ducke The New York Times / Contact 16 Rehearsal of an 'online' concert at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Moscow, on March 21. Sergey Ponomarev The New York Times / Contact 17 A deserted check-in hall on March 18 at Tokyo's Haneda Airport. Noriko Hayashi The New York Times / Contact 18 Solitude at the Red Fort Fair in New Delhi on March 19. SAUMYA KHANDELWAL The New York Times / Contact 19An empty street, on March 18, in central London at rush hour. Andrew Testa The New York Times / Contact 20The equestrian statue of Carlos III stands out solitary in a soulless panoramic view of Madrid's Puerta del Sol, taken on March 24. Samuel Sánchez
Empty cities
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Deserted streets, squares and monuments. Public spaces stripped of bustling urban life. The coronavirus pandemic has frozen the daily bustle of the planet, giving rise to unusual, almost unreal images.
