Streets of chania
During our fall holydays on the greek island crete, we visited the old town Chania.
19 May
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18 May
0Comments Arlington antebellum home
Judge William S. Mudd built Arlington Antebellum Home in the 1840s. Wilson’s Raiders, notorious for destroying the Civil War furnaces at Tannehill used Arlington as a campsite. Arlington Antebellum Home remains one of the Birmingham area’s best examples of Greek Revival architecture. (Photo by Terri Hicks)
27 April
0Comments Byblos
Byblos is the Greek name of the Phoenician city Gebal (Greek: Βύβλος; Hebrew: גְבַל; earlier Gubla, Phoenician: ). It is a Mediterranean city in the Mount Lebanon Governorate of present-day Lebanon under the current Arabic name of Jubayl (جبيل) and was also referred to as Gibelet during the Crusades. It …
25 April
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24 April
0Comments Acropolis, parthenon
The Parthenon is a temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their virgin patron. Its construction began in 447 BC when the Athenian Empire was at the height of its power. It was completed in 438 BC, although decorations …
24 April
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Designed by architect E.B. White, this public market was built 1840-41 by Andrew Cunningham and John White.
23 April
0Comments Mermen? – fontana del moro
La Fontana del Moro (the Moor Fountain) is a fountain located at the southern end of the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy. It represents a Moor, or African (perhaps originally meant to be Neptune), standing in a conch shell, wrestling with a dolphin, surrounded by four Tritons. It is placed …
22 April
0Comments Meteora, thessaly, greece
The Holy Monastery of Varlaam (or Barlaam) in the Meteora is named for the monk who first built a tiny chapel on this rocky promontory in the 14th century. It has an elegant church with 16th-century frescoes by a well-known iconographer and other notable buildings. The Metéora (Greek: Μετέωρα, "suspended …