The mountain of Athos is well known throughout the entire Orthodox world as the centre of a great monastic republic.
Hilendar on Mount Athos, the “Holy Mountain.”
Category: Balkans
The Culture of the Balkan Peninsula
The Hagia Sophia of Thessaloniki, Greece. Byzantine Architecture.
The Church of St. Sophia Thessaloniki. The grand scene of the Ascension is one of the best specimens of Byzantine mosaic extant.
Southeast view of the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion, Greece.
The ancient Greek temple of Poseidon at Cape Sunnius, built between 444-440 BC, is one of the main monuments of Athens’ Golden Age.
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View of the village of Nikali, near Larissa, the capital of Thessaly, Greece.
The nearer objects in the picture are those in the village of Nikali, where the principal house is the pyrgos, or tower, in which the agha is represented smoking.
South-west view of the Erechtheion on the Acropolis in Athens
The Erechtheion is an Ionic-style temple on the Acropolis in Athens, built between about 420 and 406 BC.
Mount Parnassus home of the Muses in central Greece.
Montparnasse in Paris is named after Mount Parnassus. Views in Greece. Drawings by Edward Dodwell, 1821. The Grand Tour.
Byzantine dalmatica. Albanian embroidery. 12th century.
Chasuble. Liturgical vestment. Albanian embroidery on a twelfth-century Byzantine dalmatica.
Exterior view of the Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae, Greece.
A space of twenty feet in breadth, between two parallel walls, leads to the Treasury of Atreus.
The Hyperian Fountain at Pherae of Magnesia, Thessaly, Greece.
Mosque at the famous Messeis spring of Kefalovryso, the Hyperian fountain of antiquity, at todays Velestino (ancient Pherae).
Sepulchre of Hassan Baba at the entrance of the vale of Tempe.
The Hasan Baba Tekke was a dervish gathering house, operated by the philosophical Bektashi order in the Tempi Valley, Greece.
