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Fortress in the location identified as Betulia by the author. Monastery of Saint John the Baptist, possibly at Qasr el Yahud.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Holy Land, Monasteries, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Qasr El-Yahud, Religious practices

Remains of castle on the outskirts of Bethany, supposed house of Mary Magdalene. Fortress outside Bethany, called “Red Tower” (Torre Rossa) due to the many massacres which had taken place there. Site outside Bethany where Jesus wept when he heard of Lazarus' death from Mary Magdalene.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Bethany (Al-Eizariya), Castles and fortresses, Galilee, Holy Land, House of Mary Magdalene, Israel, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Red Tower / Torre Rossa (Bethany), Religious practices

Fortress in the city of Kafr-Kanna in Galilee, usually identified with biblical Cana. The building is considered to be the place of the biblical wedding in Cana. In the centre, the well from which Jesus Christ drew water from, to subsequently transform it into wine.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Cana in Galilee, Castles and fortresses, Galilee, Houses, Israel, Kafr-Kanna, Marriage at Cana, Religious practices, Walls, Wells

View of Methoni.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Castles and fortresses, Greece, Messenia, Methoni, Peloponnese, Ports, Views

View of Corfu.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Castles and fortresses, Corfu, Greece, Ionian islands, Ports, Views

Map of ancient Corinth with Acrocorinth.

Tags: Acrocorinth, Ancient Corinth, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Castles and fortresses, Corinth, Greece, Maps, Peloponnese

Map of Koroni.

Tags: Castles and fortresses, Greece, Gulfs and bays, Koroni, Maps, Messenia, Peloponnese, Walls

Map of the port and castle of Pylos (Niokastron).

Tags: Castles and fortresses, Greece, Maps, Messenia, Niokastro (Pylos), Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Peloponnese, Ports, Pylos, Walls

Map of Split, Croatia.

Tags: Adriatic sea, Castles and fortresses, Croatia, Dalmatian coast, Maps, Ports, Split / it. Spalato / anc. Aspalathos, Walls

Map of Zadar (Croatia).

Tags: Adriatic sea, Castles and fortresses, Croatia, Dalmatian coast, Greek colonies, Maps, Walls, Zadar / it. Zara / anc. Idasa

Map of the port of Pula in Croatia.

Tags: Adriatic sea, Castles and fortresses, Croatia, Maps, Peninsula of Istria, Ports, Pula / anc. Polai

Map of Trieste.

Tags: Adriatic sea, Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Italy, Maps, Peninsula of Istria, Trieste, Walls

Map of the port and city of Chioggia, Italy.

Tags: Adriatic sea, Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Chioggia, Italy, Maps, Ports, Veneto

Map of the port and city of Ancona, Italy.

Tags: Adriatic sea, Ancona, Castles and fortresses, Fortifications and fortresses, Italy, Maps, Ports, Walls

Map of the Dardanelles.

Tags: Abydos, Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Castles and fortresses, Dardanelles / Çanakkale boğazı / anc. Hellespont, Maps, Sestos, Thrace, Turkey, Views

Map of Euboea.

Tags: Aegean sea, Architecture and built environment, Castle of Chalcis, Castles and fortresses, Central Greece, Chalcis, Euboea, Greece, Houses, Islands, Maps, Strait of Euripus, Towers

Map of Chios.

Tags: Aegean islands, Aegean sea, Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Chios, Churches, Greece, Houses, Islands, Islands of the Northeastern Aegean sea, Maps, Towers

Map of Amorgos.

Tags: Aegean islands, Aegean sea, Amorgos, Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Cyclades, Greece, Houses, Islands, Maps, Towers

Map of Naxos.

Tags: Aegean islands, Aegean sea, Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Churches, Cyclades, Greece, Houses, Islands, Maps, Naxos, Towers, Walls

Map of Kythnos.

Tags: Aegean islands, Aegean sea, Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Churches, Cyclades, Greece, Islands, Kythnos, Maps, Towers

Map of Crete.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Churches, Crete, Greece, Maps, Towers

Map of Cythera.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Churches, Cythera, Greece, Ionian islands, Maps, Towers

View of the Castle of Szigetvár in Hungary.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Fortifications and fortresses, Hungary, Maps, Szigetvár Castle, Views, Walls

View of Belgrade Fortress.

Tags: Belgrade (Beograd), Belgrade Fortress / Kalemegdan, Castles and fortresses, Cathedral of Saint Sava (Belgrade), Danube river, Fortifications and fortresses, Houses, Maps, Rivers, Serbia, Towers, Views, Walls

View of Budapest.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Bridges, Budapest, Castle of Buda (Budavári Palota), Castles and fortresses, Danube river, Fortifications and fortresses, Houses, Hungary, Maps, Rivers, Towers, Views, Walls

View of Esztergom in Hungary.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Esztergom, Esztergom Castle (Hungary), Fortifications and fortresses, Houses, Hungary, Maps, Towers, Views, Walls

View of the Castle of Komárno (Slovakia).

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Cannons, Castle of Komárno (Slovakia), Castles and fortresses, Danube river, Fortifications and fortresses, Horses, Houses, Human types, Komárno, Maps, Rivers, Slovakia, Views, Walls, Weapons

Tremiti islands: View of San Domino, San Nicola and Capraia.

Tags: Adriatic sea, Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Capraia, Castles and fortresses, Fortress of Santa Maria (Crete), Italy, Maps, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Monasteries, San Domino (Tremiti), San Nicola (Tremiti islands), Tremiti islands ((isole Tremiti) / anc. Diomedee islands, Views

Fig. 1. (?) Fig. 2. View of Bosa in Sardinia.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Bosa, Castles and fortresses, Houses, Italy, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Sardinia, Serravalle Castle (Sardinia), Views

Fig. 1. View of Mount Ida in the Troad. Fig. 2. View of the Dardanelles.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Çanakkale, Castles and fortresses, Dardanelles / Çanakkale boğazı / anc. Hellespont, Houses, Mount Ida / Kazdağı (Turkey), Natural environment, Troad, Turkey, Views

Fig. 1. View of fortress on cape of island. The author does not gives us hints, however, judging by his route, this should be one of the islands between Milos and Paros. Fig 2. View of the city of Chios.

Tags: Aegean islands, Aegean sea, Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Castles and fortresses, Chios, Frankish architecture, Frankish monuments, Greece, Houses, Islands, Islands of the Northeastern Aegean sea, Views, Walls

Fig. 1. View of Reggio di Calabria, in Italy. Fig. 2. View of Scilla, city in Calabria, Italy. Fig. 3. Tower in Calabria, Italy.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Calabria, Castle of Reggio (Italy), Castle of Scilla, Castles and fortresses, Fortifications and fortresses, Greek colonies, Houses, Italy, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Reggio di Calabria / anc. Rhegion, Scilla, Southern Italy, Views, Walls

Fig. 1. View of Policastro Bussentino in Italy. Fig. 2. View of Lipari, island in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

Tags: Aeolian islands archipelago, Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Castle of Lippari (Italy), Castles and fortresses, Fortifications and fortresses, Houses, Islands, Italy, Lipari / anc. Meligounis, Policastro Bussentino, Southern Italy, Tyrrhenian sea, Views, Walls

View of Castel dell'Ovo in Naples, Italy.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Castel dell'Ovo, Castles and fortresses, Fortifications and fortresses, Gulfs and bays, Italy, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Naples / Napoli / anc. Neapolis, Southern Italy, Tyrrhenian sea, Views

Map of the bay of Methoni with the islands of Messenian Oinoussae, (Gennadius Library).

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Greece, Maps, Messenian Oinousses islands, Methoni, Sphacteria

Map of Chios, (Gennadius Library).

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Chios, Greece, Islands of the Northeastern Aegean sea, Maps

Map of Rhodes, (Gennadius Library).

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Castles and fortresses, Dodecanese, Greece, Maps, Rhodes, Walls

Map of Naxos, (Gennadius Library).

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Cyclades, Greece, Maps, Naxos

Map of Lefkada, (Gennadius Library).

Tags: Aetolia and Acarnania, Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Central Greece, Greece, Ionian islands, Lefkada, Maps, Nicopolis (Epirus)

Map of Corfu, with the coast of Epirus and Albania, (Gennadius Library).

Tags: Albania, Angelokastro (Corfu), Architecture and built environment, Butrint / anc. Buthrotum, Castles and fortresses, Corfu, Epirus, Greece, Ionian islands, Maps, Neo Frourio - New Fortress (Corfu), Palaio Frourio - Old Fortress (Corfu)

Map of Cephalonia with the fortress of Agios Georgios, (Gennadius Library).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Cephalonia, Fortress of Agios Georgios (Cephalonia), Greece, Ionian islands, Maps, Windmills

Map of Euboea with the coast of Attica, (Gennadius Library).

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Attica, Boeotia, Castles and fortresses, Central Greece, Euboea, Greece, Maps

Map of Rab island in Croatia.

Tags: Adriatic sea, Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Castles and fortresses, Croatia, Dalmatia, Houses, Islands, Maps, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Rab / anc. Arba, Venetian architecture, Venetian monuments, Views, Walls

Map of Pag island in Croatia.

Tags: Adriatic sea, Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Castles and fortresses, Churches, Croatia, Dalmatia, Houses, Islands, Maps, Pag, Views, Walls

View of Sultaniye castle on the Asian coast of the Dardanelles.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Dardanelles / Çanakkale boğazı / anc. Hellespont, Houses, Maps, Mosques, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Turkey, Views

View of Kilitbahir Castle, on the European coast of the Dardanelles.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Dardanelles / Çanakkale boğazı / anc. Hellespont, Houses, Kilitbahir Castle / Kilitbahir Kalesi, Maps, Mosques, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Turkey, Views

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