Contributions of the group Αρχιτεκτονική στην Ελλάδα-Architecture in Greece

Vaticano : Il frontale della Basilica, le tre cupole e le statue evangeliche

nobody@ipernity.com (Paolo Tanino) — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 15:29:05 +0000

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Living on the egde (Moni Timiou Prodromou / Monastery of St John the Baptist)

nobody@ipernity.com (tommes) — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 12:38:07 +0000

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Vatheia

nobody@ipernity.com (tommes) — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 16:05:57 +0000

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Monemvasia

nobody@ipernity.com (tommes) — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 17:50:34 +0000

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Inside Peribleptos Monastery, Mystras

nobody@ipernity.com (tommes) — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 18:42:45 +0000

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Peribleptos Monastery, Mystras

nobody@ipernity.com (tommes) — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 18:41:17 +0000

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Despot's Palace - Mystras

nobody@ipernity.com (tommes) — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 18:45:04 +0000

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Santorini Oia

nobody@ipernity.com (Volker Schwarz) — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 18:30:23 +0000

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Roofs of Nafplio

nobody@ipernity.com (tommes) — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 17:01:19 +0000

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Memories of Naxos

nobody@ipernity.com (Ulrich John) — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 06:49:00 +0000

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Parthenon in Athens

nobody@ipernity.com (Jenny McIntyre) — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:26:52 +0000

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Amphitheatre in Athens

nobody@ipernity.com (Jenny McIntyre) — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:26:48 +0000

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Greece - Lithochoro, Agios Dionysios Monastery

nobody@ipernity.com (Jaap van 't Veen) — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 08:03:45 +0000

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The (old) monastery Agios Dionysios is located in the Enipeas gorge at an altitude of 850 meters in the Olympus Mountains (PiP5). The monastery was directly subordinated to the patriarch of Constantinople.

The monastery was founded in 1542 by Saint Dionysios. Its name was Agia Triada, which means Holy Trinity. Surrounded by strong high walls and equipped with a watchtower, it looked like a small fortress.
During various conflicts the monastery served as a refuge for civilians, but also for military personnel. In its history, the monastery has been plundered and burned, but also rebuilt several times.

In April 1943 the monastery was attacked by the German army. Assuming that the building could be a refuge for Greek resistance fighters, the Germans first bombed it and then destroyed it with explosives. After the destruction of their monastery in 1943, the monks moved to an annex fifteen kilometers from the old monastery and much lower on the slope of the Olympus. That complex, dating from 1650, grew in the following years into the (new) Dionysios monastery.

The remains of the old monastery and the walls that surrounded it are still visible. The main church has been restored and renovated. Its location and the mixtures of ruins and the renovated katholikon (= main church of the monastery) made it for me a special and very charming site.

GR - Athens - Chapel on the Lykavittos

nobody@ipernity.com (Marco F. Delminho) — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 19:27:26 +0000

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Voir le coucher de soleil .....

nobody@ipernity.com (Ghislaine Girardot) — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 16:26:30 +0000

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au cap Sounio à une cinquantaine de k d'Athènes
Belle soirée à tous

Greece - Thessaloniki, White Tower

nobody@ipernity.com (Jaap van 't Veen) — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 07:03:37 +0000

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The White Tower is the most well known monument of Thessaloniki and a famous landmark of the city. The tower, which once guarded the eastern end of the city's sea walls, was for many years attributed to Venice, to which the Byzantines ceded Thessaloniki in 1423. It is now known that the tower was constructed by the Ottomans sometime after their army captured Thessaloniki in 1430.

The Tower was used by the Ottomans successively as a fortress, garrison and a prison. In 1826 here was a massacre of the rebellious prisoners. After that the tower acquired the name "Tower of Blood" or "Red Tower".

When Thessaloniki became a part of Greece in 1912 the tower was whitewashed as a symbolic gesture of cleansing and it was named “White Tower”. The Tower has now a buff colour, but has retained its name.

The tower is located on Thessaloniki's waterfront boulevard at the Thermaic Gulf. Nowadays it houses a museum dedicated to the history of Thessaloniki.

Greece - Thessaloniki, Arch of Galerius

nobody@ipernity.com (Jaap van 't Veen) — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 07:13:18 +0000

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The Arch of Galerius - locally known as Kamara - is certainly one of the most important monuments in Thessaloniki. The arch was probably built by the city of Thessaloniki between 298 and 305 A.D. to commemorate Galerius’ victorious campaign against the Persians.

Originally it was a triple arch and four main and four supporting pillars. The central arched opening was 9,7 meters wide and 12,5 meters high; the secondary openings on the other side were 4,8 meters wide and 6,5 meters high. Only parts of the masonry symbols of the arches and three of the eight pillars survived. The reliefs on the two pillars depict scenes from Galerius’ victories against the Persians in 297 A.D. Among others one can see scenes of war, mounted battles and victories, triumphs and ceremonies, separated by relief flowers and branches.

The arch - standing right in the middle of the city along Egnatia Street - is one of the landmarks of Thessaloniki.

Greece - Ioannina, Fethiye Mosque

nobody@ipernity.com (Jaap van 't Veen) — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 07:24:03 +0000

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The Fethiye Mosque is located in Its Kale, the inner castle in the walled city of ancient Ioannina. It was built immediately after the conquest by the Ottomans in 1430, near the ruins of an early 13th-century Byzantine church. Originally it was a wooden structure, which was replaced in 1611 by a stone building.

The mosque was extensively remodeled in 1795 by Ali Pasha, an Albanian born cruel despot, who made it the main mosque of his palace. The tomb of Ali Pasha and his family is located before the mosque, protected by a solid metal fence.

The mosque has a square plan, with a minaret at the western corner. The prayer hall, covered with a hemispherical dome, has a wooden balcony supported on stone columns. Interior decoration is preserved and the mihrab is particularly striking.

The mosque can be visited, not free of charge as it is part of the Byzantine Museum.

Greece - Kastoria, Monastery Panagia Mavriotissa

nobody@ipernity.com (Jaap van 't Veen) — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 06:35:53 +0000

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The monastery Panagia Mavriotissa was founded in 1082/83 by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos to commemorate the victory over the Normans and the recapture of Kastoria.

It is referred to in documents dating back to the 13th century as the monastery of Panagia Mesonisiotissa (= in the middle of the island). In the second half of the 17th century the name changed to Panagia Mavriotissa, because the inhabitants of the village of Mavrovo (nowadays ‘Mavrochori’) ensured that it remained in good condition.

The monastery played an important role in the history of the area, but remained closed for many years. It was reopened in 1998. Only a few buildings from the original monastery have survived. The church has a spacious narthex on the west side, which was added later. The interior is decorated with murals dating from the beginning of the 13th century. The icons on the outside date from the period 1259 - 1264.

The murals and drawings were damaged - all eyes of saints were removed - during Ottoman period. Some of these old frescoes were restored in the 13th century, while the outer wall of the narthex was decorated with new ones.

Pangia Mavriotissa is located at a beautiful location with very old platanus trees, at the banks of Lake Orestiada, at a distance of four kilometers from Kastoria ( www.ipernity.com/doc/294067/47608732 ) and opposite the village Mavrochori. The monastery is dedicated to the Dormition of the Virgin. A chapel dedicated to John the Theologian, with wall-paintings executed in 1552 was erected beside it in the 16th century.

Santorini : le barche spesso sono ricoverate nei cortili

nobody@ipernity.com (Paolo Tanino) — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 07:07:55 +0000

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