Hello all! So, first, catch-up time! So yesterday we went to Meteora, and then stopped by Aiani. Unfortunately the site at Aiani was closed when we go there, but we did get to poke around their museum, which was pretty cool. A lot of things were unpublished there, so I can't share pictures of the nifty vases they have there on the internets. But! I do have lots of pictures of Meteora. Meteora, in short, is a huge outcrop of these big limestone and composite stones, which are way cool and way tall, and have some 24 monasteries perched on and around them. Rocks:
One of the monasteries:
And the modern city below them:
It was a rather cool site, to say the least ^^ And then today we went to see Olynthos, which is -the- city for domestic architecture in the ancient world. There are more than 100 houses excavated there, which is by far the most from one site and gives us a lot of information about how the regular people were living. Then we came back to Thessaloniki, and went to see the Mausoleum, Arch, and Palace of Galerius, who was one of the later rulers in the ancient world, after the Roman Empire had begun to fracture. This is his tomb (which he never got around to using because he died in Serbia):
And his arch (or at least a fraction of it. It was a biiig arch thingy):
And that's about it for today. More tomorrow! Love you all! <3
One of the monasteries:
And the modern city below them:
It was a rather cool site, to say the least ^^ And then today we went to see Olynthos, which is -the- city for domestic architecture in the ancient world. There are more than 100 houses excavated there, which is by far the most from one site and gives us a lot of information about how the regular people were living. Then we came back to Thessaloniki, and went to see the Mausoleum, Arch, and Palace of Galerius, who was one of the later rulers in the ancient world, after the Roman Empire had begun to fracture. This is his tomb (which he never got around to using because he died in Serbia):
And his arch (or at least a fraction of it. It was a biiig arch thingy):
And that's about it for today. More tomorrow! Love you all! <3
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