Friday, August 25, 2017

architecture, street art, statuary

The view back to our hotel from the beginning of August 25th street

St Titus

Weird sculpture in Heraklion town hall

Town hall

El Greco square

St Marks


lion fountain

Public library.  Nice exterior

street art

Inside St Titus

His skull remnant, allegedly

St Marks, deconsecrated

St Minas Cathedral

St Catherine (small church next to cathedral)

the 'small' St Minas, now a small church museum

Inside St Minas

St Minas with a cedar

Turkish fountain



Entrance to the sea fortress


Entance to the sea fortress with lion of St Marks


Model of Knossos










? The king's room?


arty!



Multiple levels down




The minotaur!

Authentic Replica Greek art

Heraklion harbor

Gortyn

Odeon.  The center had great acoustics

The back wall of the Odeon had the town's legal code


Maybe the Roman emperor Titus?

Drainage at Phaestos



Crypts at Matala





Crypts



Venetian facade in Heraklion

Inside St Minas




Hadrian's arch, Athens

Olympian Zeus









Impressive houses on south side of Acropolis



Outside the Odeon - used today for theatrical events

Acropolis museum

View from roof of Athens gate hotel


Temple of Aphaea, Aegina





from the pediments (originals in Germany)





polychrome



Monastery of St Nektarios

lighting many many candles

Spring house

Cathedral









crypt



Fauna near washroom

Beneath the Acropolis museum




Roman Agora

Tower of the winds -  time keeper





Another cat

Tower of the winds


Roman latrine in Agora

Drainage





Hadrian's library





?Electric

Greek agora

Offering to Zeus?

Temple of Hephaestus



Needs some cleaning






Water clock remnant.  It could run for 17 hours



Stoa



Acropolis

Athena Nike

Propylaea

Parthenon 

Erechtheion

Caryatids on right...




Mt Lycabettus






panorama to south

Odeon



looking to north and Greek Agora






Theater of Dionysus

The expensive seats have your name on them!


Some of the sacred caves


Acropolis museum

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