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.
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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?
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.
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……
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