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Ïf you descontruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine and a boat remain. That is, with as much you reconstruct her."
~Odisseas Elytis"
"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."
~Franklin D. Roosevelt~
Athens.
Some images from various visits to Greece. They are old but I clearly remember taking each of them. A little series, two per day for a week or so.
Good morning/evening my friends!
Nice to be back after 2 weeks..
During these days i visited lots of places in inner Greece but i wasnt so lucky about the weather..Most of my pics are taken with my new Tamron 18-270 VC ..a very good all in one traveller lens and i highly recommended it especially if you dont want to change lenses all the time..
I ll try to visit your work to see what i missed from all of you!!
Have a great Sunday!!
Xριστός Ανέστη φιλοι μου!!
Explored thank you all!
Oia, Santorini, Greece. Waiting for sunset. Best viewed large.
Some images from various visits to Greece. They are old but I clearly remember taking each of them. A little series, two per day for a week or so.
The windmills are the quintessential features of Mykonos landscape. There are plenty of them that have become a part and parcel of Mykonos. Visitors to Mykonos can see the windmills irrespective of the locale. From a distance, one can easily figure out the windmills, courtesy of their silhouette. They are primarily concentrated in the neighborhood of Chora and some are also located in and around Alevkantra. These innovative wheels were primarily used for crushing agricultural yields. In all, there were 16 such windmills in operation.
They are conspicuous by their snow-white color, spherical shape with the customary pointed roof made of the finest variety of wood. In the good old days, they were wind operated as Mykonos is renowned for their gusty wind, which continues to blow even today. The Windmills of Chora and the ones at Ano Mera were a great boon to the people of those localities and they were primarily used for grinding the agricultural products that were meant to be transported to places outside Mykonos.
As of now, with the advent of modernity, the windmills are no longer operational. But they continue to be a symbol of Mykonos rich virile past. Being hundreds of years old, most of the windmills have been thoroughly renovated and some have even been converted into museums, the most famous being the Bonis Windmill.
Mykonos windmills are a living testimony of the island's use of innovation when it came to tapping the enormous power of the wind to grind Mykonos agricultural produces.
The ruins of the Temple of Dionysus or Athena (F) in front of the Temple of Hera (E), Selinunte, Sicily, Italy
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Holocaust memorial on Liberty Square, Thessaloniki. Liberty Square in 1943 was the place where many of Thessaloniki's 50 000 Jewish citizens were forced to assemble in order to be deported to Auschwitz. Almost all were murdered. Thessaloniki had the largest Jewish community in Greece and was the oldest one in Europe. When St Paul visited Thessaloniki around 50 AD, he preached in one of Salonica's three synagogues (probably in Ets Ahayim - Tree of Life. As we know, he had considerably more success with the "gentiles"). The monument is regularly vandalised. Leica M8, Voigtlaender 35/1.4.
Merbaka (Greek: Μέρμπακα), but officially Agia Trias (Αγία Τρίας, "Holy Trinity"), is a village in the province of Argolis.
The modern church of the Holy Trinity, first built in 1898, was demolished and rebuilt in 1934.
Of more interest is the ancient church of the Panagias built in the twelfth century. Unfortunately, we could not enter.
As a Fleming I read that Merbaka is named after a Flemish monk for William of Moerbeke, a 13th-century Roman Catholic archbishop of Corinth. (Wikipedia).