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Vases of different usages from Thessaly.

Meteora.

Tempi in Thessaly.

Title page. Landscape at the valley of Larissa.

Landscape at Larissa.

Landscape at the Vale of Tempi between Mount Olympus and Mount Kissavos.

Landscape near the ancient site of Gonnoi, at the Vale of Tempi. Due to its strong fortress, the location was also called Kondylos or Gonnokondylos.

The tekije (dervish lodge) of Hassan Baba at the Vale of Tempi, Thessaly.

Landscape at Mount Pelion, Thessaly.

View of Chora, Skopelos island.

View of the monasteries of Meteora.

Varlaam monastery, Meteora.

Village of Portaria on Mount Pelion.

The Hyperian fountain at Pherae in Thessaly.

View of Mount Olympus between Larissa and Baba village.

Sepulchre of Hassan Baba, at the entrance of the Vale of Tempe.

View of Mount Pelion.

Velestino in Thessaly.

Mosque at the spring of Kefalovryso, the Hyperian fountain of antiquity, at Velestino (ancient Pherae). In the foreground, part of a column, most possibly from the temple of Zeus Thaulios.

View of Mount Olympus and Mount Ossa, in Thessaly.

Landscape at the Vale of Tempi,Thessaly.

Landscape near the ancient site of Gonnoi, at the western end of the Vale of Tempi. Due to its strong fortress, the location was also called Kondylos or Gonnokondylos.

Inscription etched on the rock at the Vale of Tempi, first century BCE: “L. CASSIUS LONGINUS PROCONS TEMPE MUNIVIT” that is, proconsul L. Cassius Longinus built a road or fortifications at Tempi. The rock bearing the inscription was destroyed during the construction of the national highway in 1959.