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Map of Samos.

Tags: Aegean islands, Aegean sea, Architecture and built environment, Churches, Greece, Houses, Islands, Islands of the Northeastern Aegean sea, Maps, Samos, Towers, Views

Map of Patmos.

Tags: Aegean islands, Aegean sea, Architecture and built environment, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Churches, Cyclades, Greece, Houses, Islands, Maps, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Monastery of Saint John the Theologian (Patmos), Patmos

Map of Klis castle in Croatia.

Tags: Adriatic sea, Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Churches, Croatia, Dalmatia, Fortifications and fortresses, Houses, Klis Castle (Vrđava Klis), Maps, Medieval monuments, Ports, Views, Walls

Map of Split in Croatia.

Tags: Adriatic sea, Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Churches, Croatia, Dalmatia, Fortifications and fortresses, Houses, Maps, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Split / it. Spalato / anc. Aspalathos, Towers, Venetian architecture, Venetian monuments, Views, Walls

Map of Trogir in Croatia.

Tags: Adriatic sea, Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Churches, Croatia, Dalmatia, Houses, Maps, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Trogir / it. Trau / anc. Tragourion, Venetian architecture, Venetian monuments, Views, Walls

View of Sibenik in Croatia. The fortress of Saint Nicholas is visible on the foreground.

Tags: Adriatic sea, Architecture and built environment, Churches, Croatia, Dalmatia, Houses, Maps, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Saint Nicholas Fortress (Sibenik), Šibenik, Venetian architecture, Venetian monuments, Views, Walls

Map of the port of Osor on Cres island in Croatia.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Churches, Cres / anc. Chersos, Croatia, Dalmatia, Houses, Maps, Osor, Ports, Views

Map of the city of Pula in Croatia.

Tags: Amphitheatres, Architecture and built environment, Churches, Croatia, Houses, Istria, Maps, Ports, Pula / anc. Polai, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Views

Map of Rovinj on Istria peninsula.

Tags: Adriatic sea, Architecture and built environment, Churches, Croatia, Houses, Istria, Maps, Peninsula of Istria, Rovinj / anc. Ryginion, Views

Island off the coast of Istria, probably Sveti Nikola island outside Porec.

Tags: Adriatic sea, Architecture and built environment, Churches, Croatia, Houses, Maps, Peninsula of Istria, Poreč / it. Parenzo / anc. Parenthos /, Sveti Nikola, Views

View of Sparta and Mystras.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Churches, Greece, Laconia, Mystras, Peloponnese, Sparta, Views, Walls

The church Notre Dame de la Garde in Marseille, before its reconstruction in 1864.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Churches, Fortress of Marseille, France, Marseille, Ports, Views, Walls

View of the port of Ancona in Italy. On the right the lazaretto. On the left the Arch of Trajan.

Tags: Ancona, Arch of Trajan (Ancona), Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Churches, Houses, Italy, Lazaretti / Quarantine stations, Lazaretto (Ancona), Ports, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Roman Εmperors, Trajan, Views

View of Loutraki on the gulf of Corinth.

Tags: Boats and ships, Churches, Corinthia, Corinthian gulf, Greece, Loutraki, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Views

The northern wall of the Acropolis of Athens and the church of Metamorfosis Sotiros.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Central Greece, Children, Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Houses, Human types, Ruins, Walls, Walls of the Acropolis

View of Panagia Faneromeni Monastery in Chiliomodi. In the background Acrocorinth.

Tags: Acrocorinth, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Chiliomodi, Churches, Corinthia, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Goats, Greece, Human types, Panagia Faneromeni Monastery (Chiliomodi), Peloponnese, Professions, Shepherds, Views, Women

Roman mausoleum (today part of the church of Panagia Marmariotissa) in Chalandri.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Attica, Central Greece, Churches, Greece, Halandri, Mausoleums, Roman architecture, Roman funerary monuments, Roman monuments, Ruins

View of Daphni Monasteri in Chaidari.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Attica, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Central Greece, Chaidari, Churches, Daphni monastery, Greece, Houses, Views

The sanctuary of Saint Rosalia, patron saint of Palermo, in the cave where according to tradition the saint had retired, on Pelegrino hill outside Palermo.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Caves, Church of Santa Rosalia (Palermo), Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Italy, Mount Pellegrino, Natural environment, Palermo / anc. Panormos, Priests, Religious practices, Sicily, Southern Italy, Views, Women

The Pools of Solomon near Bethlehem. The Chuch of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Bethlehem, Church of the Nativity (Bethlehem), Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Holy Land, Horses, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Religious practices, Soldiers, Solomon's Pools (Bethlehem), Views, Weapons

The Aedicule in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The interior of the Aedicule.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Christian priests, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Holy Land, Jerusalem, Judaea, Pilgrimages, Priests, Religious practices, Views

View of the Garden of Gethsemane. View of Mount of Olives from Jerusalem.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Churches, Gethsemane, Jerusalem, Judaea, Mount of Olives (Jerusalem), Natural environment, Palestine

View of Alicante, Spain.

Tags: Alicante / anc. Akra Leuke, Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Churches, Houses, Ports, Spain, Views

Fig. 1. View of the post of Barcelona, Spain. Fig. 2. View of the Cathedral of Valencia, Spain.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Barcelona, Boats and ships, Cathedral of Valencia, Churches, Human types, Lighthouses, Ports, Spain, Valencia, Views, Women

View of Catania in Sicily. On the left the church of Saint Francis of Assisi, where initially the Temple of Athena stood. In the background Mount Etna.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Catania, Church of Saint Francis of Assisi (Catania), Churches, Fishing, Greek colonies, Houses, Human types, Italy, Mount Etna, Mountains, Sicily, Social sphere and everyday life, Southern Italy, Views, Volcanoes

Fig. 1. Plan of the upper gallery of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Fig. 2. Plan of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Churches, Hagia Sophia (Istanbul), Istanbul, Thrace, Turkey

Map of Jerusalem showing the monuments, holy places and main sights.

Tags: Churches, Israel, Jerusalem, Maps, Walls

Map of Rome, showing the monuments and main sights.

Tags: Basilica of Saint Peter (Rome), Churches, Italy, Maps, Rivers, Rome, Tiber river, Walls

Map of Venice.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Churches, Gulf of Venice, Gulfs and bays, Italy, Lagoons, Maps, Veneto, Venice

Vie of the Cathedral in Syracuse, Italy. This Cathedral was built upon the ancient Temple of Athena.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cathedral of Syracuse, Churches, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greek colonies, Italy, Ruins, Sicily, Southern Italy, Syracuse, Temple of Athena (Syracuse), Views

Map of the walls of Nicaea (Iznik), and map of the lake of Nicaea (Lake Iznik / anc. Ascania). Plan of a Christian Orthodox church in Iznik (G), propably of Hagia Sophia. View and plan of a funerary monument (I).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Bithynia, Byzantine monuments, Churches, Iznik / gr. Nicaea, Lake Iznik / anc. Ascania, Maps, Turkey, Walls of Nicaea

Plan and views of the Church of Saint Simeon Stylites. Ancient funerary monuments from Syria.

Tags: Aleppo, Architecture and built environment, Church of Saint Simeon Stylites / Qalaat Semaan / Deir Semaan (Syria), Churches, Funerary monuments, Mount of Saint Simeon Stylites / Sheik Barakat (Syria), Plans and drawings, Syria

Views and floor plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. View and floor plan of the Grotto and the Church of the Nativity.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Bethlehem, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem), Church of the Nativity (Bethlehem), Churches, Holy Land, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Plans and drawings

1. Ancient marble panel with inscription from the Temple of Artemis. After the Temple was demolished, this panel served as the altar stone at the church of Agios Dimitrios in Melinado, Zakynthos, which is today in ruins. 2. Ancient coins of Zakynthos and Cythera.

Tags: Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Church of Hagios Dimitrios (Melinado), Churches, Coins, Cythera, Greece, Greek alphabet, Inscriptions, Ionian islands, Ionian sea, Islands, Melinado, Ruins, Temple of Artemis (Zakynthos), Zakynthos

View of the first Courtyard, known also as Court of the Janissaries or Parade Court. On the right Hagia Irene and the Imperial Mint. In the background the Gate of Salutation, leading to the Second Courtyard of the palace.

Roman inscription embedded in the church of Saint Nicholas at the port of Aegina.

Tags: Aegina, Argo-Saronic gulf, Art and antiquities, Churches, Greece, Hagios Nikolaos (Aegina), Inscriptions, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Roman inscriptions

Greek priest and Greek woman in traditional costumes of the Aegean islands.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Christian priests, Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Human types, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Drawing of an ancient epistyle, built today in the church of Agios Geogrios, one of the monasteries of Ioulis, Kea.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Church of Hagios Georgios (Kea), Churches, Cyclades, Greece, Ioulis (Kea), Kea, Plans and drawings

View of the Agios Markos square, Zakynthos.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Bell towers, Children, Church of Hagios Markos (Zakynthos), Churches, Dogs, Greece, Horses, Houses, Human types, Ionian islands, Natural environment, Views, Women, Zakynthos

View of Philatrea in Peloponnese.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Baskets, Children, Churches, Filiatra, Fountains / Springs, Greece, Houses, Human types, Messenia, Natural environment, Oxen, Peloponnese, Views, Women

The Monastery of the Dormition of the Virgin.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Bell towers, Children, Christian priests, Church of the Dormition / Monastery of the Assumption (Hydra), Churches, Greece, Human types, Hydra, Islands, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Natural environment, Rites of passage, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

View of Hydra. In the background the Monastery of the Dormition of the Virgin.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Baskets, Bell towers, Churches, Greece, Houses, Human types, Hydra, Islands, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Monastery of the Dormition of the Virgin (Hydra), Natural environment, Views, Windmills, Women

Costumes of Cythera. Orthodox priest is leading a group of women to the church.

Tags: Children, Christian priests, Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cythera, Greece, Ionian islands, Natural environment, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Coats of arms from the medieval town of Rhodes. The band which separates the upper from the lower frescoes in the church of Hagios Georgios Chostos in Filerimos, Rhodes. Niches from the church of Saint John in the medieval town of Rhodes, which housed the statues of the Apostles, according to the author.

Tags: Aegean islands, Art and antiquities, Church of Saint John – Collachio (Rhodes), Churches, Coats of arms – Emblems, Dodecanese, Filerimos, Greece, Hagios Georgios Hostos (Filerimos in Rhodes), Medieval monuments, Medieval old town of Rhodes, Rhodes

Frescoes from the Church of Agios Georgios Chostos in Filerimos, Rhodes. The Passion of Christ. Sculls in armour and coats of arms of the Knights Hospitaller. Death prevails over a knight.

Tags: Aegean islands, Art and antiquities, Churches, Coats of arms – Emblems, Dodecanese, Filerimos, Frescoes, Frescoes of Agios Georgios Chostos (Rhodes), Greece, Hagios Georgios Hostos (Filerimos in Rhodes), Knights Hospitaller, Medieval monuments, Rhodes

Frescoes from the Church of Agios Georgios Chostos in Filerimos, Rhodes. The Passion of Christ.
Saint John the Baptist with the Lamb. Pilgrim with his patron saint. Saint Michael kills the demon as the latter is trying to tip over the scales with the good and bad actions of a young knight who is kneeling before Saint Michael. A fountain with a snake and two pigeons, probably an allegory of “Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.” (Matthew 10:16).

Tags: Aegean islands, Art and antiquities, Churches, Coats of arms – Emblems, Dodecanese, Filerimos, Frescoes, Frescoes of Agios Georgios Chostos (Rhodes), Greece, Hagios Georgios Hostos (Filerimos in Rhodes), Knights Hospitaller, Medieval monuments, Rhodes

Frescoes from the church of Agios Georgios Chostos in Filerimos, Rhodes.Scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary. Members of the Knights Hospitaller order and children praying.

Tags: Aegean islands, Art and antiquities, Churches, Dodecanese, Filerimos, Frescoes, Greece, Hagios Georgios Hostos (Filerimos in Rhodes), Knights Hospitaller, Medieval monuments, Rhodes

Frescoes from the church of Agios Georgios Chostos in Filerimos, Rhodes. Scenes from the life of Virgin Mary. Members of the Knights Hospitaller order with their patron saints.

Tags: Aegean islands, Art and antiquities, Churches, Dodecanese, Filerimos, Frescoes, Greece, Hagios Georgios Hostos (Filerimos in Rhodes), Knights Hospitaller, Medieval monuments, Rhodes

Frescoes from the church of Agios Georgios Chostos in Filerimos, Rhodes. Two women saints intercede in favour of Grand Master Hélion de Villeneuve. Saint Michael kills the dragon. Cross of the Order of the Knights Hospitaller. Saint George kills the dragon.

Tags: Aegean islands, Art and antiquities, Byzantine monuments, Churches, Dodecanese, Filerimos, Frescoes, Greece, Hagios Georgios Hostos (Filerimos in Rhodes), Knights Hospitaller, Medieval monuments, Rhodes

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