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Cairo, Egypt - Kids with wonderful smiles and curiosity outside of The Citadel entrance. Photo Copyright 1995 Cathryn Hrudicka. All rights reserved.
Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park is a national park in central Israel, 13 kilometers from Kiryat Gat, encompassing the ruins of Maresha, one of the important towns of Judah during the time of the First Temple, and Beit Guvrin, an important town in the Roman era, when it was known as Eleutheropolis.
Archaeological artifacts unearthed at the site include a large Jewish cemetery, a Roman-Byzantine amphitheater, a Byzantine church, public baths, mosaics and burial caves.
The citadel town rises some 30 meters above the ground level of the lower city . Its long diameter is about 430 meters and its short diameter is about 340 meters. Its overall area is slightly more than 10 hectares (102,000 square meters). It is surrounded by a steep earthen mound in all directions which made it very difficult for any attacker to scale it. The town is largely occupied by traditional courtyard houses and with few public buildings reached through a labyrinth of narrow alleyways. The houses that are built on the perimeter are contiguous and form a solid wall very similar to fortified citadels of medieval times.
2 more portraits for the girls. i was pretty much drawing in the dark - if thats an excuse for no talent.
Photographed in Hue Citadel. A vast 19th century palace complex largely destroyed by American bombing during the Tet offensive in 1968. The palace buildings are slowly being rebuilt. Hue is in Vietnam.
We recently helped out with the transformation of the new Citadel Gym by producing and installing some finishing touches...
We printed and installed the wall art for the weights area in the gym and the feature wall in the spin studio.
Citadel
After the era of the independent communes of northern Italy, the wars and the ongoing armed conflict forced Verona to rebuild its fortifications. The advent of the lordship of the Scaliger (1259-1387) favored the development of the city that had already expanded its possessions on a large part of the Venetian territory in the northwest. Cangrande I della Scala (1311-1329) decided to further expand and reorganize the ramparts defending the city to withstand long sieges. The power of defenses was such that Verona remained a stronghold at the following times, dominated by Venice and Austria. This destination had an impact on the urbanization of the city that began a long cycle of buildings, especially the great basilicas and major administrative units. In 1387 Giangaleazzo Visconti of Milan conquered Verona he kept for a short time, building new walls and the citadel in the southern part of the city.
From 1405 to 1797, Verona was an active and rich city of the Republic of Venice. Apart from a conflict that broke out in the early sixteenth century, it was a period of peace. The Venetians engaged the military Veronese architect Michele Sanmicheli (1484-1559), to reinforce the medieval fortifications. He conceived the series of polygonal bastions placed at regular intervals and built three new gates: Porta Nuova and Porta Palio Porta San Zeno, of great architectural value. The arrangement of these gates favored the development of the city in the area between the walls of the Commune and those of the period Scaliger south. The Venetians forbade the extension of the city beyond this limit for reasons of military security, and the ban was upheld by the Austrian Empire. Thus, the city built within these limits, thereby contributing to a development unit. The Venetian period was characterized by great economic independence of the city that had repercussions on the culture and administration. This era was marked by the construction of many prestigious palaces built by wealthy families and many religious and public buildings.