Our lodging at Xifias…. no buildings around, few people, our room was top dead center in the photo.
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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Xifias near Monemvasia, Greece, the only thing between us and the Mediterranean was this luscious swimming pool.
Monemvasia map of “Lower Town”, the fortress containing Upper Town, on the southeast coast of the Peloponese peninsula south of Athens. Ancient strategic military and trade outpost.
Flowers, grapes, figs, you name it, line these tiny streets. The smell is intoxicating.
People still live in these incredibly charming and warm “Lower Town” streets but one suspects living there is more difficult than a day trip.
One of many narrow, steep, difficult Byzantine streets….. no place for a ground war, which was probably the intent.
Our view from the hotel to the fortress at Monemvasia–on top of the big, BIG, rock to the right and connected to the mainland via a man-made causeway and drawbridge.
The massive iron-clad doors to the Monemvasia town and fortress, bullet riddled from a more recent engagement (1500s?), they still hang firm, well sort of.
Monemvasia’s hundreds of cats live pretty well. This one snoozes on a shudder door while a wooden spider appears to be closing in on it.
A Bunny door…. in fact most of the doors in the town of Byzantine streets were about 5 feet tall….. were they that short or is this, like the streets, a security measure–harder to carry weapons through the door, or for multiple soldiers to come through at once?
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