Monday, February 11, 2008
There's a turn in the end of this road...
...where to?...how tight? ...can I break? (where is the co-driver when you need one...)
Fortress of St. Nicholas - Rhodes Greece
In the east of the modern city there is a portion of ancient Rhodes. This is the ancient harbor - its modern name is Mandraki - with the statues of the deer and the fawn at its entrance. Tradition tells that this was where the famous Colossus of Rhodes, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, stood. A long mole, which protects the harbor, has in its middle three old windmills and at its northern end the Fortress of St Nicholas with the lighthouse. Halki, Lindos and Nisyros set out.
Monastery of the Holy Trinity
Meaning ‘suspended in air’ the name Meteora soon came to encompass the entire rock community of 24 monasteries. There were no steps and the main access to the monasteries was by means of a net that was hitched over a hook and hoisted up by rope and a hand cranked windlass to winch towers overhanging the chasm. Monks descended in the nets or on retractable wooden ladders up to 40m long to the fertile valleys below to grow grapes, corn and potatoes. Each community developed its own resources and by the end of the 14th century, the Grand Meteoron emerged as the dominant community. Its wealth included landed estates, flocks of sheep, and herds of cattle.
History in modern life
Looking through the glasses of our modern life we do often forget our history.
Have you ever seen the glass pyramids at the Louvre?
Here's the same concept.
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