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If you want to go inside it, find the secret on the excellent page about Monemvasia of VT member dimitris03... Leave a Comment
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The yard around the church towards the walls is the only open, somehow, place of Monemvasia, even though not large. I had seen there kids playing football (and I was jealous, of course!). Leave a Comment
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 Everything fits with the rocky
environment... by AndyRG
The lower town is inhabited today, many of the ruined buildings keep on being restored. Leave a Comment
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connects Nea Monemvasia and the lower town of Monemvasia, about 150 m before the entrance.
There, you can see the grave of Yannis Ritsos (1909-1990), one of the most widely translated Greek poets - and a favorite of mine too. He was born in Monemvasia, he is also the uncle of one of my best friends! Leave a Comment
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 His house is the first one you
meet in the town by AndyRG
The music of Mikis Theodorakis on his long poem "Epitafios" in 1960 was the detonator of the cultural revolution in Greece.
Ritsos was a communist. He was sentenced to spend 4 years in various camps (basicly in Makronisos) during the greek civil war (1945-1949). Between 1967-1971 the military dictatorship exiled him in different islands (as in Yaros).
He died in Athens in 1990 but his poems stayed for ever immortal... Leave a Comment
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 A better view of Nea
Monemvasia by AndyRG
Going back there after visiting the mediaeval upper and lower town looks like a return to modern "civilization"... but everyone prefers the "original" Monemvasia. Leave a Comment
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Built by the Byzantine Emperor Andronicus II Comnenus in 1293, this great vaulted church is the largest medieval church in southern Greece. Dedicated to Christ in Chains, unusually it was allowed to function as a Christian place of worship following the occupation by the Turks in 1540. It is the largest and most dominant building in the Lower Town. Leave a Comment
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 A closer look at his
grave... by AndyRG
in love, in death,
that's exactly why I believe
in immortality.
I write a stich,
I write the world.
I exist, the world exists.
The sky is seven times azure.
This clearness is again
the first truth.
My last wisdom". Leave a Comment
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