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In 1988, a few months before the Summit Meeting of the EEC in the Grand Master's Palace in Rhodes, I was asked by the then political head of the Ministry of Culture to write a small booklet about the Palace to be distributed to the delegates of the member states of the EEC and the journalists. In the end the booklet became a book and much larger in content and length than had originally been commissioned. It seemed to me hardly possible to present the Palace of the Grand Master without reference to the rest of the medieval city, of which it was always the heart. I must a...

The Acropolis is part of the volume entitled Treasures of the Greek Museums , which introduces the reader to the priceless works of art housed in the museums of Greece. The texts, written by experts, furnish details of the historical and cultural context of these masterpieces. The most important archaeological sites are also presented, with exclusive aerial photographs and other lavish illustrations.

The years went by, civilizations succeeded, nations blended with each other, each governor usually ordered using fear and the commons either complied or rebelled to authority. Minoans, Achaeans, Dorians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Saracean, Genoans, Venetians, Chainides, Ottomans, as well as Greek lepers from Crete and around the country lodged at those barn lands of Spinalonga and fed it not only with tears and pain but also with hope for life. Today, we stand with amazement against the works, which are still preserved -walls, bastions, churches, houses, streets and other...

[...] The catalogue that follows is not exhaustive, but it does aim to be representative: it treats all types of buildings in all the areas of Greece where such monuments appear. Also, in order to enable the reader to acquire a complete overview of the architecture of this period, a point has been made of including not only buildings which are unquestionably Ottoman in their function and architecture, such as mosques, imarets, hamams, tekkes etc., but also citadels, bridges or dwellings which were in use by all sections of the population. Ίhe book is divided into three par...

Η παρούσα μελέτη έχει αντικείμενο την ανασύνθεση όλων των δεδομένων, αρχαιολογικών καταλοίπων και ιστορικών πληροφοριών, που αφορούν την περιοχή του Mon-Repos. Η περιοχή αυτή είναι ένα φυσικό και πολιτιστικό συγχρόνως τοπίο μέσα στην ευρύτερη περιοχή της πόλης της Κέρκυρας, όπου αρμονικά συνυπάρχουν αρχαία και νεότερα μνημεία μέσα σε ένα φυσικό χώρο εξαιρετικής σημασίας.