Fountains / Springs - TRAVELLERS' VIEWS - Places – Monuments – People Southeastern Europe – Eastern Mediterranean – Greece – Asia Minor

The fountain of Bebo at Kornaros square, Heraklion, Crete. The fountain was built between 1552 and 1554 by captain Gianmatteo Bebo. It bears a Venetian coat of arms. At the centre, statue of the Roman era.

Street market around Ottoman fountain at Kornaros square, Heraklion (today known as Philanthropiki fountain). On the left, the Venetian fountain of Bebo.

Atrium of an ancient Greek house, with the statue of Hestia.

Women slaves at a fountain (imaginary representation).

The gorge of the Phaedriades and the Castalian spring, Delphi.

Imaginary reconstruction of temple of Poseidon in Paestum.

1. Ottoman fountain at Pylos. 2. Water cistern at Pylos. 3. Entrance to Niocastro, Pylos.

1. Fountain close to Pylos. 2. Plan of church. 3. Stone bridge at Metaxada, close to Pylos.

1. View of Carytaina. 2. The bridge of Carytaina, Byzantine monument of the 15th century.

1. Plan of the stadium or hippodrome on Mount Lykaion, Arcadia. 2, 3. Remains of wall at the site. 4. One of the stone bassins of the cistern (rectangular room) at the northern end of the eastern side of the stadium.

1,2. Fountain with Roman relief from the church of Hagios Ioannis Theologos at Mystras. 3,4,5: Antiquities from Mystras.

View of Argos. In the background, the acropolis of Larissa.

View of ancient Corinth with the Temple of Apollo and Acrocorinth.

The Royal Palace at Athens, today Greek Parliament.

View of the church of Our Lady on Tinos island. January 1850

Areos street, Plaka quarter, Athens. On the right, the Library of Hadrian. July 1854.

The temple of Olympian Zeus, the Arch of Hadrian anf the Acropolis. In the background, Philopappus Hill and monument. In the foreground, the spring of Callirrhoe on Ilissus river. Painting by Harry Johnson.

Greek women from all over Greece in traditional costume, 1863.

Landscape at the gulf of Corinth. In the distance, Mounts Parnassus and Helicon.

The fountain of Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra at the Isle Garden (Jardín de la Isla) of Aranjuez, Spain.

Imaginary depiction of stairways in Rome.

Imaginary depiction of part of the Roman forum, Rome.

Imaginary depiction of tetrapylon and fountain at Doric portico in Rome.

The column of Marcus Aurelius at Piazza Colonna, Rome.

View of the Piazza del Quirinale, Rome. The centre, the Dioscuri fountain.

View of Piazza Navona, Rome. In the foreground, the Fountain of Neptune. In the background, the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi with the Obelisk of Domitian.

View of Piazza della Rotonda, Rome. On the right, the Pantheon. At the centre, the fountain and the obelisk.

Fontana di Trevi, Rome.

Piazza di Spagna, Rome. At the centre, the Fontana della Barcacchia.

View of the Roman Forum, Rome.

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