We have been saving this one up for a while. It started with the first picture taken just outside a church a couple of blocks from where we live. We speculated on whether it was for feet washing - too far off the ground - an outdoor sink that might have predated the rest of the neighbourhood and provided water and washing facilities for the 'clerics' and their neighbours?? Who knows, but it started us collecting pictures of water delivery systems everywhere we have travelled in Greece. Some are associated the churches or monasteries, many are simply on roadsides in remote places making us assume they were for watering horses travelling long routes between towns, and over mountains. Maybe they simply formalize a place where some spring water rises to the surface, providing collection points and saving the surrounding area from being a swamp... This one is at Saint Basil's big church at the top of our hill (so also Piraeus). In church grounds in t...
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