Archive for 'Knossos'
the palace of knossos: a renovator’s delight?
Evans recreated columns, stuck buildings back together and, having removed some important frescos for museums, repainted them and the concrete columns so that visitors could see what Knossos “really looked like.”
Posted: July 24th, 2007 under Greece, Knossos, Crete, Heraklion.
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why greece?
Day -28: Continuing our series “reasons for visiting this country”, Andy has asked me to explain why we’re going to Greece.
There are lots of amazing destinations on our itinerary, but the one place I can say I’ve always wanted to see is Greece. What’s not to admire about a place that invented democracy, Pythogoras’ Theorem […]
Posted: May 27th, 2007 under Greece, Delphi, Knossos, Mycenae, Greek Islands.
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