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

1. Ancient marble panel with inscription from the Temple of Artemis. After the Temple was demolished, this panel served as the altar stone at the church of Agios Dimitrios in Melinado, Zakynthos, which is today in ruins. 2. Ancient coins of Zakynthos and Cythera.

Views and floor plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. View and floor plan of the Grotto and the Church of the Nativity.

Plan and views of the Church of Saint Simeon Stylites. Ancient funerary monuments from Syria.

Map of the walls of Nicaea (Iznik), and map of the lake of Nicaea (Lake Iznik / anc. Ascania). Plan of a Christian Orthodox church in Iznik (G), propably of Hagia Sophia. View and plan of a funerary monument (I).

Vie of the Cathedral in Syracuse, Italy. This Cathedral was built upon the ancient Temple of Athena.

Map of Venice.

Map of Rome, showing the monuments and main sights.

Map of Jerusalem showing the monuments, holy places and main sights.

Fig. 1. Plan of the upper gallery of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Fig. 2. Plan of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

View of Catania in Sicily. On the left the church of Saint Francis of Assisi, where initially the Temple of Athena stood. In the background Mount Etna.

Fig. 1. View of the post of Barcelona, Spain. Fig. 2. View of the Cathedral of Valencia, Spain.

View of Alicante, Spain.

View of the Garden of Gethsemane. View of Mount of Olives from Jerusalem.

The Aedicule in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The interior of the Aedicule.

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

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.