This one got delayed by normality (having been pushed aside originally by the event of My Bad)
So it is just going to be a post of some photos and the comment that the history of the knob of rock it occupies being a couple of thousand years of 'I'm the King of the Castle...' as one power after another pushed their competitors off the rock and claimed command of it (and all they surveyed from it).
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| Clock Tower |
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| British military hospital (20 in the map below) and SeaTower |
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| One of the 2 Venetian Bastions (and moat and Old Town beyond) |
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| Well |
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| Mortar |
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| English Cannon |
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| Enormous woodfired oven (there are 2, each about 4 metres square inside) |
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| Atop the Land Tower |
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| A View of the 'New' Fortress (and town between of course) |
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| The angular bits are those Venetian Bastions |
Now they’re some big ovens.
ReplyDeleteYou could cook a couple of cows in those
How men’s greed have caused so much misery
I like the way you describe it. I’m the king of the castle. It’s exactly like that
Or cook bread for an army...
DeleteJust to be clear we cats like the high ground too, but we have to look the other cat in the eye to fight him. We tend to make more noise than damage, a lot of yowling and posturing is usually enough to settle who's the boss.
Maybe we are not so different from the human animal after all.
Sounds like a great place to soak up some history :)
ReplyDeleteIf history is the story of battles for control, then yes this is the place. It doesn't say so much about daily human endeavour, art, music, dancing and singing, playing games or growing food and making clothes, (although to be fair the music depatment of the Ionian University is now housed in the old Italian officers barracks - appropriate modern use we think).
DeleteHari OM
ReplyDeleteVery interesting, Tigger - and boy could you cook up a pizza or 87 in that oven!!! What I loved about Greece and places like this is that you can actually feel the history. It oozes from the rock, somehow... or is that just me? Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
Dear YAM-aunty, the humans have certainly moved a lot of those rocks around in Greece. Fz & Pz Mr T
Deleteyour comment about one power pushing the other off the rock until the next power pushed them off is common all over our planet.. no matter the country it has happened for century after century..the British pushed the Native Americans out and off, then the americans pushed Britian off and so on and so on and now the two parties push each other off and on... these photos are wonderful. I like to visit old forts and have seen many here . never seen an oven that big though..
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