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A wine-buying stop at Domaine Skoursa in Nemea, on our way to Nafplion to meet Boyd and Althea Edmondson.
Mycenae was an important city in ancient times, centrally located in the Greek landscape of Argolis 25 km southwest of Corinth, and once the main political and cultural center of the Mycenaean civilization named after Mycenae.
The impressive royal fortress (the "acropolis") of Mycenae was inhabited only by the ruling class: working and merchants lived well beyond the walls. The fortress is surrounded by a 900 m long and on average 6 m thick wall, built of giant ("cyclopean") stone blocks of various sizes.
Epidaurus Museum
Greece
Epidaurus (Greek: Ἐπίδαυρος, Epidauros) was a small city (polis) in ancient Greece at the Saronic Gulf. Epidaurus was independent of Argos and not included in Argolis until the time of the Romans. With its supporting territory it formed the small territory called Epidauria. Reputed to be the birthplace of Apollo's son, Asklepios the healer, Epidaurus was known for his sanctuary situated about five miles from the town, as well as its theater, which is once again in use today. The cult of Asklepios at Epidaurus is attested in the 6th century BC when the older hill-top sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas was no longer spacious enough.
The asclepieion at Epidaurus was the most celebrated healing center of the Classical world, the place where ill people went in the hope of being cured. To find out the right cure for their ailments, they spent a night in the enkoimitiria, a big sleeping hall. In their dreams, the god himself would advise them what they had to do to regain their health. There are also mineral springs in the vicinity which may have been used in healing.
Asklepios, the most important healer god of antiquity, brought prosperity to the sanctuary, which in the 4th and 3rd BC embarked on an ambitious building program for enlarging and reconstruction of monumental buildings. Fame and prosperity continued throughout the Hellenistic period. In 87 BC the sanctuary was looted by the Roman general Sulla and in 67 BC it was plundered by pirates. In the 2nd century AD the sanctuary enjoyed a new upsurge under the Romans, but in AD 395 the Goths raided the sanctuary.
Even after the introduction of Christianity and the silencing of the oracles, the sanctuary at Epidauros was still known as late as the mid 5th century, though as a Christian healing center.
The prosperity brought by the Asklepieion enabled Epidauros to construct civic monuments too: the huge theater that delighted Pausanias for its symmetry and beauty, which is used once again for dramatic performances, the ceremonial Hestiatoreion, baths and a palestra. The theater was designed by Polykleitos the Younger in the 4th century BC. The original 34 rows were extended in Roman times by another 21 rows. As is usual for Greek theaters (and as opposed to Roman ones), the view on a lush landscape behind the skene is an integral part of the theater itself and is not to be obscured.
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Epidauro
Passando através de comarcas cheias de pinos chegamos a um dos centros arqueológicos mais importantes de Grécia. Epidauro encontra-se ao leste da Península da Argólida, compreende três cidades: Ligouno, uma vila superpovoada; o velho Epidauro, que é o porto antigo da cidade, que acha-se conservado tal e como era, que é agora uma encantadora zona de lazer com magníficas praias; e o novo Epidauro, um povoado de montanha, de pastores, muito mais tranqüilo. Tem como um de seus máximos atrativos o Teatro que ainda utiliza-se para representações dramáticas e líricas graças ao magnífico estado de conservação conseguido após as restaurações levadas a cabo em 1958 e 1959. Com 55 arquibancadas e uma capacidade para 14.000 espectadores. No centro se levanta o altar de Dionisos. O Museu recolhe o material arqueológico que não tem sido trasladado a Atenas como instrumentos cirúrgicos, objetos votivos e várias reconstruções de templos e outros edifícios. O Santuário conserva restos de diferentes edifícios de importância, o lugar conserva um aura especial de misticismo, que produz uma grande fascinação ao que o visita.
Redelijk op tijd weg naar Mycenae, het centrum van de Mycenaean wereld, een stad gebouwd tegen een heuvel. Toegang via de Leeuwenpoort en het museum bekenen, de grafcircel, het Tolos graf, de werkplaatsen van de artiesten en de noordpoort. Net buiten de site de schatkamer van Atreus bekeken. Daarna naar door naar Argos waar een prachtig theater uitgehakt uit de berg bleek te bestaan. Vroeger 20.000 zitplaatsen. Ook de oude Agora bekeken. Verder naar Tiryns, een acropolis met een bestaan vanaf 2700 BC. Dikke, hoge muren beschermden de inwoners. In Nafplion gelunched, rondgelopen, het trouwtje van de vakantie gescoord, de Agios Giorgios kathedraal bekeken en genoten van het pittoreske stadje. Daarna omhooggereden naar het Palamidi bastion met prachtig uitzicht. Boodschappen gedaan om in het appartement salade Nicoise te maken.
Nafplio • Ναύπλιο
Nafplio (Nauplion), Griechenland
ist eine Hafenstadt am Argolischen Golf auf dem Peloponnes in Griechenland.
Die heutige Altstadt von Nafplio ist ein architektonisches Gemisch aus fränkischen, venezianischen und türkischen Gebäuden sowie Häusern im ländlichen und neoklassizistischen Stil. Sie ist von einem Netz aus engen Gassen und Straßen durchzogen. Ottomanische Brunnen, Denkmäler, Statuen, Kanonen stehen überall, weite Plätze, verborgene Innenhöfe und idyllische Parkanlagen runden das Bild ab. Mit seinen in vielen Farben leuchtenden Bougainvilleen lockt Nafplio zu einer Entdeckungstour.
Redelijk op tijd weg naar Mycenae, het centrum van de Mycenaean wereld, een stad gebouwd tegen een heuvel. Toegang via de Leeuwenpoort en het museum bekenen, de grafcircel, het Tolos graf, de werkplaatsen van de artiesten en de noordpoort. Net buiten de site de schatkamer van Atreus bekeken. Daarna naar door naar Argos waar een prachtig theater uitgehakt uit de berg bleek te bestaan. Vroeger 20.000 zitplaatsen. Ook de oude Agora bekeken. Verder naar Tiryns, een acropolis met een bestaan vanaf 2700 BC. Dikke, hoge muren beschermden de inwoners. In Nafplion gelunched, rondgelopen, het trouwtje van de vakantie gescoord, de Agios Giorgios kathedraal bekeken en genoten van het pittoreske stadje. Daarna omhooggereden naar het Palamidi bastion met prachtig uitzicht. Boodschappen gedaan om in het appartement salade Nicoise te maken.
Mycenae, Argolis, Greece. July 1981. Probably first settled in about 5,000 BC by pre-Hellenic Pelasgian people before the Greek tribes emigrated to the region in 3,000-2,000 BC. Mycenae became a major power in about 1,550 – 1,450 BC and dominated the Aegean until 1150 BC when Mycenae was destroyed by Dorian Greeks invading from the north, although another theory is that the enigmatic and highly destructive ‘Sea Peoples’ destroyed it and many other Mediterranean civilisations at the time, ushering in the Greek Dark Ages. Mycenae eventually re-established itself about 950 BC but never regained its former glory and was raised to the ground by Argos in 468 BC. Yet again, resettlement occurred but by the time the Romans invaded Hellenistic Greece in 31BC the city had been abandoned. At Mycenae’s height, a formidable fortress, containing monumental palaces and temples, guarded the city and this was rebuilt in 1,350 BC with massive stones. Pictured is the Lion Gate, entrance to the city.
Just outside the modern village of Aghia Triada (formerly Merbakas) there is a Byzantine church dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos. The church has many unique features and is considered a fine jewel of the Byzantine Argolid.
This image shows: elaborate brickwork and gothic colonettes in the main apse of the church.
More text, here: 5telios.blogspot.com/2011/12/merbakas-byzantine-jewel-in-...
Shot on a Canon G9 in April 2011 and post processed / tagged in GIMP.
A wine-buying stop at Domaine Skoursa in Nemea, on our way to Nafplion to meet Boyd and Althea Edmondson.
Just outside the modern village of Aghia Triada (formerly Merbakas) there is a Byzantine church dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos. The church has many unique features and is considered a fine jewel of the Byzantine Argolid.
This image shows: a sundial as spolion and the gothic capitals on the drum's colonettes.
More text, here: 5telios.blogspot.com/2011/12/merbakas-byzantine-jewel-in-...
Shot on a Canon G9 in April 2011 and post processed / tagged in GIMP.
Mycenae is an archaeological site in Greece, located about 90 kilometres (56 miles) southwest of Athens, in the north-eastern Peloponnese. Argos is 11 kilometres (7 miles) to the south; Corinth, 48 kilometres (30 miles) to the north. From the hill on which the palace was located, one can see across the Argolid to the Saronic Gulf.
In the second millennium BC, Mycenae was one of the major centres of Greek civilization, a military stronghold which dominated much of southern Greece. The period of Greek history from about 1600 BC to about 1100 BC is called Mycenaean in reference to Mycenae. At its peak in 1350 BC, the citadel and lower town had a population of 30,000 and an area of 32 hectares
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