My thoughts on images taken around sunset, is that the shadows should be a lot darker, but with full detail. The problem we have is, because our eyes adapt to high contrast, our brain constructs an “HDR” memory and we forget how images need to look to represent the impact of the contrast we actually saw.
@jeffholdgate I forgot to say, but I prefer your second version to your first but, for my interpretation, it lacked a tad of impact, hence my effort. Or maybe I just assumed you took it later in the evening.
Oh, and by the way, I must say this is the kind of image I would hang on my wall 
I remember how struck I was, when I worked in Aix-en-Provence a few years ago, with the intensity of the Mediterranean light and the vividness of colours. Something it is hard to explain to someone who has never experienced it. Looking at Paul Cezanne’s paintings, you might think the colours are over-emphasised but, having had to use filters to try and “tame” the light for Velvia 100 film, I realised he wasn’t so far off. Trying to realise that visual impact in B&W needs careful and thoughtful work, sometimes leaving the image to “mature” for a couple of days before coming back to it and maybe reworking it.