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Travel > arctangent  > Travel > The Mediterranean > Mediterranean Sampler - Collected from all Galleries
Here you'll find a few of my favorite pictures from each of the numbered galleries in my 'The Mediterranean' sub-category, under the main category 'Travel'. The numbered galleries include (at least) one gallery for each port of call and/or location for day trips, as well as themed galleries for more generic sea and harbor views taken from the ship, and for details of things seen aboard the ship, the M/Y Corinthian II, operating under the aegis of Travel Dynamics, International.
These are pictures taken during a cruise of the eastern Mediterranean in the spring of 2011. Except for the title 'pictures' that separate the different groups, all of the images have been 'collected' from 'parent' galleries, and will contain in their captions links to the original galleries in which they appear with similar pictures from the same location or in the same theme.
For those who, like myself, are map junkies, be sure to use the 'Map this' button in the upper right to see the locations of some of the images I've selected for this gallery. Warning, however. I didn't manage to select for this Sampler gallery, one map tagged image from each location we visited. To be sure to see all such tags, please visit the original galleries.
I encourage you to view these in some of the larger sizes, or better yet use the 'slideshow' button in the upper right. Once in slideshow mode, you can use the filmstrip at the top to move quickly through the gallery to the place where you'd like your slideshow to begin.
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MS G17 07
The bath.
Nestor's Palace,
Between Pylos and Chora, Peloponnese, Greece
April 2011
MS G17 08
Room 43, with the famous bathtub.
Nestor's Palace,
Between Pylos and Chora, Peloponnese, Greece
April 2011
MS G17 09
The view from the hill on which the palace sits is heavenly in all directions.  On one side lies the Ionian Sea.  In the other direction lie green hills and valleys planted in olive trees, and beyond them mountains of the Peloponnese.  (I'm about 90% certain the island in this shot is Sfaktina, in the Bay of Pylos, but it might be farther north, namely Nisida Proti.  I'm just not sure which direction I was looking when I took this.  I've map tagged the portion of the Bay of Pylos I believe is visible in the upper left of the picture.)
Nestor's Palace,
Between Pylos and Chora, Peloponnese, Greece
April 2011
MS G17 10
Olive tree with great character.
Nestor's Palace,
Between Pylos and Chora, Peloponnese, Greece
April 2011
MS G17 11
I loved the old olive trees I saw in Greece and Cyprus.  I wished I might have been able to sit in the shade of such a one as this and read a good book and gaze out across the landscape and be lazy all the day long.
Nestor's Palace,
Between Pylos and Chora, Peloponnese, Greece
April 2011
MS G17 12
The landscaped grounds at the site.
Nestor's Palace,
Between Pylos and Chora, Peloponnese, Greece
April 2011
MS G17 13
Tholos Tomb IV at Ano Eglianos (Mycenaean, 16th century BC), close to Nestor's Palace.

Between Pylos and Chora, Peloponnese, Greece
April 2011
MS G17 14
Tholos Tomb IV at Ano Eglianos (Mycenaean, 16th century BC), close to Nestor's Palace.

It is a very sobering experience to stand inside a tomb that was used for solemn spiritual purposes literally millennia ago.

Between Pylos and Chora, Peloponnese, Greece
April 2011
MS G18 00
From Wikipedia:  "a monolithic granite pillar (1493/4), unlined, with a capital on the top of Byzantine style, which is supposed to have supported either the winged lion of Venice or the bust of Morozini. That is why it is called "Morozini's stele". There was an inscription on the capital that has not survived to this day."
MS G18 00
From Wikipedia: "a monolithic granite pillar (1493/4), unlined, with a capital on the top of Byzantine style, which is supposed to have supported either the winged lion of Venice or the bust of Morozini. That is why it is called "Morozini's stele". There was an inscription on the capital that has not survived to this day."
MS G18 00
From Wikipedia:  "a monolithic granite pillar (1493/4), unlined, with a capital on the top of Byzantine style, which is supposed to have supported either the winged lion of Venice or the bust of Morozini. That is why it is called "Morozini's stele". There was an inscription on the capital that has not survived to this day."
MS G18 00
From Wikipedia: "a monolithic granite pillar (1493/4), unlined, with a capital on the top of Byzantine style, which is supposed to have supported either the winged lion of Venice or the bust of Morozini. That is why it is called "Morozini's stele". There was an inscription on the capital that has not survived to this day."
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Keywords: cruise fortress harbor travel mediterranean walls empire methoni moat causeway towers greece history medieval venetian ottoman peloponnese archaeology middle ages ionian sea bourtzi pylos travel dynamics 2011 smithsonian journeys messenia
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