A church in center “Lower Town” in Monemvasia where you can see the fortress walls in Upper Town originally built to hide, then expanded by Romans, then Venicians, etc., as each sought to control this passage through the Sea.
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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Epidarvos, Greece, on the eastern Mediteranean– 60,000 Romans could sit here to watch some lions eat some Christians, or some Gladiators chop each other up, or a great philosopher, or some plays, or…..
There are dozens of pagan places of worship, Moslem mosques, and Christian churches in Monemvasia–as each prevailing religion had its time. This is the main Christian church on the square.
When language fails—graphics will help…. did we get a ticket?
No wonder that stop signs amount to only a “traveller’s advisory” in these countries–a stop sign in the middle of nowhere…..why?
Only a few years ago, in this long forgotten set of tombs (near Dendra, Greece) for the rich, their animals (including their horses buried nose-to-nose—talk about conspicuous consumption!), and their goodies, some kids playing found a hole from a recent cave-in after heavy rains….. and voila, amazing stuff including the only 2,000 year old complete suit of armor that we have seen.
Epidarvros amphitheater–the Greeks built it to hold tens of thousands of people but of course that wasn’t large enough for the Romans who added another 16 tiers of seating at the top……
A short video of the inside of the tomb that stood unknown just below the village of Dendra for 2,000 years or so and in which the complete suit of armor was found.
The long ramp entrance to one of the tombs at Dendra…. after all these centuries, they still found gold objects and other treasures which now rightly are resting in a museam.
The Lion’s Gate entrance to Mycenea–reportedly, the stones required the strength of the mythical god Thor (who was of course very real) to lift into place–or by whatever other magic they could muster to move these huge stones…. and the rest of the place.
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