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The first architectural phase of Pnyx.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Pnyx

View of the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Human types, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Odeons, Roman architecture, Roman monuments

View of the Temple of Poseidon in Sounio.

Tags: Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Attica, Boats and ships, Central Greece, Greece, Natural environment, Sounion, Temple of Poseidon (Sounio)

The ancient theater at Thorikos in Lavrio. In the background Makronisos.

Tags: Ancient theatre of Thoricus, Ancient theatres, Art and antiquities, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Human types, Islands, Lavreotiki, Makronisos island, Ruins, Theatres, Thorikos

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

Inscription from fountain at Oropos, perhaps close to Amphiareion.

Tags: Amphiareion, Ancient sanctuaries, Art and antiquities, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Greek alphabet, Inscriptions, Oropos

View of Chalkis.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Bridges, Castles and fortresses, Central Greece, Chalcis, Euboea, Fortifications and fortresses, Fortress of Karababa, Greece, Human types, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Strait of Euripus, Walls

The Ursi Mosque in Chalkis.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Central Greece, Chalcis, Euboea, Greece, Houses, Human types, Mosques, Ursi Mosque (Ursi Camii)

View of the port of Aulis in Boeotia.

Tags: Aulis, Boats and ships, Boeotia, Central Greece, Greece, Natural environment, Ports, Views

Mosque in Lamia.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Central Greece, Children, Greece, Houses, Human types, Lamia, Mosques, Phthiotis, Women

View of Thermopylae and the Malian gulf from the walls of the castle of Lamia.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Castle of Lamia, Central Greece, Greece, Gulfs and bays, Human types, Lamia, Maliac gulf, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Phthiotis, Thermopylae, Views

Stone bridge over Spercheios river.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Birds, Bridges, Central Greece, Greece, Human types, Natural environment, Rivers, Spercheios river, Travel, Views

View of Thermopylae.

Tags: Central Greece, Greece, Locris, Natural environment, Thermopylae, Views

The theater of Chaeronea.

Tags: Ancient theatre of Chaeronea, Ancient theatres, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Boeotia, Central Greece, Chaeronea, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Houses, Ruins, Theatres

The Lion of Chaeronea.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Boeotia, Central Greece, Chaeronea, Greece, Lion of Chaeronea, Ruins

The fountain of Mnemosyne near the Oracle of Trophonius in Livadeia.

Tags: Boeotia, Central Greece, Fountains / Springs, Greece, Greek mythology, Herkyna river (Livadeia), Human types, Laundresses / Washerwomen, Livadeia, Natural environment, Oracle of Trophonius (Livadeia), Oracles, Rivers, Springs of Kryas (Livadeia), Springs of Lethe and Mnemosyne, Views, Women

Stone bridge over Herkyna river close to the Oracle of Trophonius in Livadeia.

Tags: Boeotia, Bridges, Central Greece, Greece, Greek mythology, Herkyna river (Livadeia), Houses, Livadeia, Natural environment, Oracle of Trophonius (Livadeia), Oracles, Rivers, Views

View of the medieval castle and city of Livadeia.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boeotia, Castle of Livadeia, Castles and fortresses, Central Greece, Greece, Houses, Livadeia, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Ruins, Views

Capitals of Corinthian order and stele from Thebes.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Boeotia, Central Greece, Corinthian order, Greece, Reliefs, Steles, Thebes (Greece), Votive steles

View of the ruins of the Walls of Themistocles in Athens.

Tags: Animals, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Natural environment, Ruins, Walls, Walls of Themistocles

View of the walls of ancient Tiryns.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Argolis, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cyclopean walls, Goats, Greece, Human types, Mycenaean architecture, Mycenaean monuments, Peloponnese, Professions, Ruins, Shepherds, Tiryns, Walls

View of the ancient theater of Argos.

Tags: Ancient theatre of Argos, Architecture and built environment, Argolic gulf, Argolis, Argos, Art and antiquities, Greece, Gulfs and bays, Houses, Human types, Peloponnese, Ruins, Theatres

The Tholos tomb of Mycenae (Treasury of Atreus).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Argolis, Art and antiquities, Funerary monuments, Greece, Human types, Mausoleums, Mycenae, Mycenaean architecture, Mycenaean monuments, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Ruins, Tholos tomb of Mycenae (Treasury of Atreus)

View of the walls of ancient Tiryns. In the foreground the Agricultural School of Tiryns, founded by Ioannis Kapodistrias. In the background Nafplio and Bourtzi.

Tags: Agricultural School of Tiryns, Architecture and built environment, Argolic gulf, Argolis, Art and antiquities, Bourtzi (Nafplio), Costume - Hats and headwear, Cyclopean walls, Greece, Greeks, Gulfs and bays, Houses, Human types, Nafplio, Peloponnese, Tiryns, Walls

The Spring of Callirrhoe at Ilissus. In the background the Temple of Olympian Zeus.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Goats, Greece, Human types, Ilissus (Ilisos) river, Natural environment, Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens), Rivers, Spring of Callirrhoe

Fragment from the west frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike on the Acropolis of Athens.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Temple of Athena Nike (Acropolis)

Part of the Propylae of the Acropolis of Athens and the Temple of Athena Nike. In the foreground the pedestal of Agrippa. In the background the Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion).

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greece, Human types, Ionic order, Monument of Agrippa, Propylaea of the Acropolis, Ruins, Temple of Athena Nike (Acropolis), Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion), Views

View of the port of Eleusis and part of Salamis island.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Attica, Boats and ships, Central Greece, Eleusis, Greece, Houses, Human types, Islands, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Natural environment, Ports, Ruins, Salamis, Views

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

Topographic map of Athens.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Lycabettus, Maps, Nymphs Hill, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Odeons, Philopappos Hill / Mouseion Hill, Philopappos Hill / Nymphs Hill, Pnyx

Map of Piraeus, clearly depicting the ports of the city.

Tags: Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Maps, Mikrolimano (Tourkolimano) / anc. Port of Munichia, Piraeus, Port of Piraeus, Port of Zea (Pasalimani), Ports

Map of south Greece and the Cyclades. Map of Attica.

Tags: Attica, Central Greece, Cyclades, Euboea, Greece, Islands, Maps, Peloponnese

Drawings of the south coast of Peloponnese.

Tags: Cythera, Greece, Ionian islands, Maps, Messenia, Mount Taygetus, Mountains, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Pylos, Tainaron, Views

Map of Italy and eastern Mediterranean, upon which the route of the author is noted.

Tags: Asia Minor, Black Sea, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Maps, Mediterranean sea, Southern Italy, Turkey

Title page of the first volume. Composition: The Acropolis of Athens with the Pyramids of Giza.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Cairo, Egypt, Erechtheion, Greece, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Odeons, Parthenon, Pyramids, Pyramids of Giza, Title page

Plane tree (gen. Platanus) in Mount Athos.

Tags: Greece, Macedonia, Mount Athos, Natural environment, Plane trees, Plants

Leaf and fruit of walnut tree in Mount Athos. Fig leaf.

Tags: Fig trees, Greece, Macedonia, Mount Athos, Natural environment, Plants, Walnut trees

The Holy Admnistration (Iera Epistasia) of Mount Athos.

Tags: Carpets, Christian priests, Costume - Hats and headwear, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Greece, Holy Administration (Iera Epistasia) of Mount Athos, Karyes, Macedonia, Monks, Mount Athos, Priests, Religious practices, Smoking, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations

Sculptured cabinet in the Treasury of Karyes.

Tags: Greece, Karyes, Macedonia, Mount Athos, Religious practices, Sacred Vessels

Saint Theodore of Amasea or Tyron. Detail from a fresco my Manuel Panselinos from the Protaton of Karyes monastery, Mount Athos.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Greece, Macedonia, Manuel Panselinos, Mount Athos, Protaton of Karyes, Religious practices

Bas-relief from the port of Vatopedi monastery. Stephen III the Great of Moldavia presents to the Virgin Mary a miniature of the port which he donated to the monastery.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Coats of arms – Emblems, Greece, Macedonia, Monastery of Vatopedi (Mount Athos), Mount Athos, Religious practices, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Stephen III of Moldavia / Stefan the Great

Fresco from the Trapeza (Refectory) of Great Lavra Monastery, Mount Athos.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Frescoes, Frescoes of Megisti Lavra Monastery, Greece, Macedonia, Monastery of Great Lavra (Mount Athos), Mount Athos, Religious practices

Portrait of the abbot (hegoumenos) of Iviron monastery, Mount Athos.

Tags: Abbots/ Priors, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, History, Iviron Monastery, Macedonia, Monasteries, Monks, Mount Athos, Portraits, Priests

Map of Greece and of the European part of the Ottoman Empire.

Tags: Greece, Maps, Turkey

View of Mount Athos.

Tags: Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Horses, Macedonia, Mount Athos, Natural environment, Pack animals, Views, Weapons

Albanians in the Morea.

Tags: Albanians, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Human types, Peloponnese, Weapons, Women

View of Missolonghi.

Tags: Boats and ships, Central Greece, Greece, Missolonghi, Views

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