The fortress of Tureta on the Konati Islands, located on the northern stretches of Dalmatia, south of Zadar and west of Sibenik in Croatia, dates back to late Antiquity. It is arguably the finest Byzantine edifice still standing in and… Read More ›
Monuments and Sites
The Queen of Cities – Constantinople – like you have never seen her before!
Have you ever wondered what the queen of cities – Constantinople – might have looked like? Today traces of the old Byzantine city literally still litter Istanbul. The most conspicuous of all of these structures has to the great church… Read More ›
Past and Present: Flinders Street Station, Melbourne, Australia.
Past In the 1920’s Flinders Street Station claimed to be the world’s busiest train station. To be able to boast such a marvelous claim, so early in its history, would have been an exciting development for Melbourne (the capital city of the… Read More ›
The Aqueduct of Valens
In modern Istanbul, standing impressively over the traffic on the busy Atatürk Bulvarı is the Aqueduct of Valens. (Today it is known better as the Bozdogan Kemeri.) It is a two-story structure standing at a maximum height of about twenty… Read More ›
Treasure and mystery in Byzantine Cappadocia.
Before the Romans, other ancient civilisations, notably the Achaemenid Empire, once inhabited the mountainous region of central Anatolia called Cappadocia. In the Christian era, as early as the fourth century, important monastic settlements began to form in this largely semi-arid region…. Read More ›
Earth: Mont Ventoux, the Giant of Provence.
Originally posted on SeanMunger.com:
By Robert Horvat This is the incredibly beautiful Mont Ventoux. It peaks at 1912m and is known as the Giant of Provence. It also has several other nicknames, including one which I like the best…
The Lighthouse of Alexandria
The Pharos lighthouse on Roman coins minted in Alexandria in the 2nd century AD. In 1994, a French team of archaeological divers conducted a salvage inspection in the eastern harbor of Alexandria in the hope of finding the site of… Read More ›
The Winds of Change, New York City 1945
New York City. Sometimes referred to as the Wonder City or the City of Tomorrow. Every year millions of migrating birds fly over New York City, using it as a stop over while on their way north or south depending… Read More ›
The Portrait Statue of the Four Tetrarchs
In my humble opinion, I believe that more than any other empire in history, both Rome and Byzantium are best understood through its art and monuments. Almost every piece of art, whether a monument, sculpture or mosaic can tell us… Read More ›
