Views - TRAVELLERS' VIEWS - Places – Monuments – People Southeastern Europe – Eastern Mediterranean – Greece – Asia Minor

Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem. The Tombs of the Kings in Jerusalem.

The Pools of Solomon near Bethlehem. The Chuch of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

View of Hebron. In the background the monument in Herodian architecture which houses the Cave of the Patriarchs, where Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob and Leah are buried. The Valley of Jericho. View of the Dead Sea.

The building, which, according to tradition, houses Rachel's Tomb, and which is on the road from Jerusalem to Bethlehem.

View of Bethlehem.

View of the interior of Mar Saba monastery on the West Bank of Jordan river.

View of Nablus. Thelocation where the river Jordan flows out from the Sea of Galilee. View of Arab village Beitin, probably the site of biblical Bethel.

View of Mount Thabor. The coasts of the Sea of Galilee. Mounts Ebal and Gerizim in Nablus valley. The village of Nain in Galilee, where according to the Bible Jesus resurrected the young man, son of a widow.

View of Nazareth.

The sanctuary of Saint Rosalia, patron saint of Palermo, in the cave where according to tradition the saint had retired, on Pelegrino hill outside Palermo.

View of Stromboli island.

View of Cetinje, historic capital of Montenegro.

Interior of the Governor's Palace in Ragusa (modern-day Dubrovnik).

Capital in the Governor's Palace in Ragusa (modern-day Dubrovnik).

The palace of the Ottoman governor in Trebinje, Herzegovina.

View of the settlement of Gradina near Trebinje, in Gacko area, Herzegovina.

View of Trebišnjica river in Herzegovina.

View of Mount Athos.

View of Astrakhan.

Monument built on the site of the barrack where according to tradition Peter the Great stayed at during his visit to Derbent in modern-day Daguestan, in 1822.