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An image of some ruins, taken in Rome 2003. An image of some ruins, taken in Rome 2003.

Ancient Roman ruins

Ancient Roman ruins

Roman ruins bacchus temple

Roman ruins bacchus temple

Tomb in Hierapolis, Denizli, Turkey

Tomb in Hierapolis, Denizli, Turkey. Hierapolis was an ancient Greco-Roman city in Phrygia.

Ancient greek town of Ephesus in Turkey

Ruins of ancient greek town Ephesus in Turkey. Ruins of ancient greek town Ephesus in Turkey

Ruins from ancient stronghold in Bulgaria. Ruins from ancient stronghold in Bulgaria

Tree at the Palatine Hill

Tree at the ruins at Palatine Hill in Rome, Italy. Tree at the ruins at Palatine Hill in Rome, Italy

Roman Ruins of Volubillis

Roman Ruins of Volubillis

Fontecchio, fountain

Historic center of Fontecchio (Abruzzo - Italy), more than 3 years after earthquake. In this picture the 14th century fountain. Fontecchio is a comune and town in the Province of LAquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy. History[edit] There is archaeological evidence of the Roman settlement of Fonticulanum down on the Aterno river. In the Middle Ages a castle was built on top of the hill and the population moved up there. The condottiero Braccio da Montone (Fortebraccio) (1368–1424) tried and failed to capture the castle in the 14th century. The earthquake caused damage to many buildings in the medieval center of Fontecchio. Several buildings also collapsed. Historic center of Fontecchio (Abruzzo - Italy), more than 3 years after earthquake. In this picture the 14th century fountain. Fontecchio is a comune and town in the Province of LAquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy. History[edit] There is archaeological evidence of the Roman settlement of Fonticulanum down on the Aterno river. In the Middle Ages a castle was built on top of the hill and the population moved up there. The condottiero Braccio da Montone (Fortebraccio) (1368–1424) tried and failed to capture the castle in the 14th century. The earthquake caused damage to many buildings in the medieval center of Fontecchio. Several buildings also collapsed

Antique Side with Amphitheatre, Turkey

Image shows details of Antique Side, Turkey. Image is dominated by ruins in the front and in the amphitheatre in the middle. Sky is blue and light cloudy. Image shows details of Antique Side, Turkey. Image is dominated by ruins in the front and in the amphitheatre in the middle. Sky is blue and light cloudy.

Unique Philippi archaeological site, Greece Europe

Ruins of the ancient city and it is part of the periphery of East Macedonia in Greece. Ruins of the ancient city and it is part of the periphery of East Macedonia in Greece.

Celsius Library pediment

Pediment of Celsius Library, famous building in the ancient roman city of Ephesus, Turkey. Pediment of Celsius Library, famous building in the ancient roman city of Ephesus, Turkey

colissem in El Djem, Tunisia 4

Ruins of colissem in El Djem, Tunisia 4

colissem in El Djem, Tunisia 5

Ruins of colissem in El Djem, Tunisia. Ruins of colissem in El Djem, Tunisia

Alba Fucens - Aquila - Italy

Ruins of Alba Fucens - Aquila - Italy

Roman ruins on Garda Lake in Sirmione, Italy

Roman ruins on Garda Lake in Sirmione, Italy

Colissem in El Djem, Tunisia 3

Ruins of colissem in El Djem, Tunisia 3

Trieste, Italy. Panoramic View of Roman Theatre Ruins.

Trieste, Italy. Panoramic View of Roman Theatre Ruins.

Arena Di Verona

Detail of the roman amphiteatre Arena di Verona in Verona Italy actually used as opera theatre

Roman Ampitheater Ruins in Salona

Roman Ampitheater Ruins in Salona

Triumph Arch ruins at Volubilis, Morocco

Walili or (Volubilis) is an archaeological site in Morocco situated near Meknes between Fez and Rabat. Walili or (Volubilis) is an archaeological site in Morocco situated near Meknes between Fez and Rabat.

Panoramic view to Roman Forum ruins

Panoramic view to Roman Forum ruins

Piazza Chiesa San Giusseppe-Taormina-Sicilia-Italy - Creative Commons by gnuckx

www.meimanrensheng.com/ www.livingalifeincolour.com/ www.travelagenda.nl/ www.travelagenda.nl/nieuws/koffietijdkiekjes/koffietijd-k... To see more ... www.flickr.com/photos/gnuckx Taormina Taormina (Sicilian: Taurmina, Greek: Ταυρομένιον - Tauromenion, Latin Tauromenium) is a comune and small town on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy, in the Province of Messina, about midway between Messina and Catania. Taormina has been a very popular tourist destination since the 19th century. It has popular beaches (accessible via an aerial tramway) on the Ionian sea, which is remarkably warm and has a high salt content. Taormina can be reached via highways (autostrade) from Messina from the north and Catania from the south. Contemporary age In the late 19th century Taormina gained further prominence as the place where Wilhelm von Gloeden worked most of his life as a photographer of predominantly male nudes. Also credited for making Taormina popular was Otto Geleng, best known in his hometown of Berlin for his fine paintings, which he composed and painted in Italy but exhibited in Germany. What distinguishes Geleng, however, is his choice to depict the more southern regions where he captured the spectacular views and light of Sicily. He often painted the area's Greek colonial ruins, including Taormina. Taormina's first important tourist was Johann Wolfgang Goethe who dedicated exalting pages to the city in his book entitled "Journey to Italy," but perhaps it was Geleng’s views that made its beauty talked about throughout Europe and turned the site into a famous tourist center. The artist arrived in Sicily at the age of 20 in search of new subjects for his paintings. On his way through Taormina he was so enamoured by the landscape that he decided to stop for part of the winter. Geleng began to paint everything that Taormina offered: ruins, sea, mountains, none of which were familiar to the rest of Europe. When his paintings were later exhibited in Berlin and Paris, many critics accused Geleng of having an ‘unbridled imagination’. At that, Geleng challenged them all to go to Taormina with him, promising that he would pay everyone's expenses if he were not telling the truth. During the early 20th century the town became a colony of expatriate artists, writers, and intellectuals. D. H. Lawrence stayed here at the Fontana Vecchia from 1920 to 1922, and wrote a number of his poems, novels, short stories, and essays, and a travel book, Sea and Sardinia. Charles Webster Leadbeater, the theosophical author, found out that Taormina had the right magnetics fields for Jiddu Krishnamurti to develop his talents, so the young Krishnamurti dwelt here from time to time. Halldór Laxness, the Icelandic author, worked here on the first modern Icelandic novel, Vefarinn mikli frá Kasmír. By this time Taormina had become "a polite synonym for Sodom" as Harold Acton described it. Later, however, after the Second World War Acton was visiting Taormina with Evelyn Waugh and, coming upon a board advertising “Ye Olde English Teas” he sighed and commented that Taormina 'was now quite as boring as Bournemouth'. Archaeology The present town of Taormina occupies the ancient site, on a lofty hill which forms the last projecting point of the mountain ridge that extends along the coast from Cape Pelorus to this point. The site of the old town is about 300 m above the sea, while a very steep and almost isolated rock, crowned by a Saracen castle, rises about 150 m higher: this is undoubtedly the site of the ancient Arx or citadel, the inaccessible position of which is repeatedly alluded to by ancient writers. Portions of the ancient walls may be traced at intervals all round the brow of the hill, the whole of the summit of which was evidently occupied by the ancient city. Numerous fragments of ancient buildings are scattered over its whole surface, including extensive reservoirs of water, sepulchres, tesselated pavements, etc., and the remains of a spacious edifice, commonly called a Naumachia, but the real destination of which it is difficult to determine. The Teatro Greco ("Greek theatre"). But by far the most remarkable monument remaining at Taormina is the ancient theatre (the teatro greco, or "Greek theatre"), which is one of the most celebrated ruins in Sicily, on account both of its remarkable preservation and of the surpassing beauty of its situation. It is built for the most part of brick, and is therefore probably of Roman date, though the plan and arrangement are in accordance with those of Greek, rather than Roman, theatres; whence it is supposed that the present structure was rebuilt upon the foundations of an older theatre of the Greek period. With a diameter of 109 metres (after an expansion in the 2nd century), this theatre is the second largest of its kind in Sicily (after that of Syracuse); it is frequently used for operatic and theatrical performances and for concerts. The greater part of the original seats have disappeared, but the wall which surrounded the whole cavea is preserved, and the proscenium with the back wall of the scena and its appendages, of which only traces remain in most ancient theatres, are here preserved in singular integrity, and contribute much to the picturesque effect, as well as to the interest, of the ruin. From the fragments of architectural decorations still extant we learn that it was of the Corinthian order, and richly ornamented. Some portions of a temple are also visible, converted into the church of San Pancrazio, but the edifice is of small size. taormina rainbow messina bougainvillea basil basilico hotel san domenico giardini naxos etna volcano vulcano island isola sicilia sicily italia italy sea sun landscape free europe wallpaper michael micky castielli resolution vacation holiday travel flight creativecommons creative commons zero CC0 cc0 CC cc panoramio flickr googleearth maps geotagged gnu gimp wikimedia. www.meimanrensheng.com/ www.livingalifeincolour.com/ www.travelagenda.nl/ www.travelagenda.nl/nieuws/koffietijdkiekjes/koffietijd-k... To see more ... www.flickr.com/photos/gnuckx Taormina Taormina (Sicilian: Taurmina, Greek: Ταυρομένιον - Tauromenion, Latin Tauromenium) is a comune and small town on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy, in the Province of Messina, about midway between Messina and Catania. Taormina has been a very popular tourist destination since the 19th century. It has popular beaches (accessible via an aerial tramway) on the Ionian sea, which is remarkably warm and has a high salt content. Taormina can be reached via highways (autostrade) from Messina from the north and Catania from the south. Contemporary age In the late 19th century Taormina gained further prominence as the place where Wilhelm von Gloeden worked most of his life as a photographer of predominantly male nudes. Also credited for making Taormina popular was Otto Geleng, best known in his hometown of Berlin for his fine paintings, which he composed and painted in Italy but exhibited in Germany. What distinguishes Geleng, however, is his choice to depict the more southern regions where he captured the spectacular views and light of Sicily. He often painted the area's Greek colonial ruins, including Taormina. Taormina's first important tourist was Johann Wolfgang Goethe who dedicated exalting pages to the city in his book entitled "Journey to Italy," but perhaps it was Geleng’s views that made its beauty talked about throughout Europe and turned the site into a famous tourist center. The artist arrived in Sicily at the age of 20 in search of new subjects for his paintings. On his way through Taormina he was so enamoured by the landscape that he decided to stop for part of the winter. Geleng began to paint everything that Taormina offered: ruins, sea, mountains, none of which were familiar to the rest of Europe. When his paintings were later exhibited in Berlin and Paris, many critics accused Geleng of having an ‘unbridled imagination’. At that, Geleng challenged them all to go to Taormina with him, promising that he would pay everyone's expenses if he were not telling the truth. During the early 20th century the town became a colony of expatriate artists, writers, and intellectuals. D. H. Lawrence stayed here at the Fontana Vecchia from 1920 to 1922, and wrote a number of his poems, novels, short stories, and essays, and a travel book, Sea and Sardinia. Charles Webster Leadbeater, the theosophical author, found out that Taormina had the right magnetics fields for Jiddu Krishnamurti to develop his talents, so the young Krishnamurti dwelt here from time to time. Halldór Laxness, the Icelandic author, worked here on the first modern Icelandic novel, Vefarinn mikli frá Kasmír. By this time Taormina had become "a polite synonym for Sodom" as Harold Acton described it. Later, however, after the Second World War Acton was visiting Taormina with Evelyn Waugh and, coming upon a board advertising “Ye Olde English Teas” he sighed and commented that Taormina 'was now quite as boring as Bournemouth'. Archaeology The present town of Taormina occupies the ancient site, on a lofty hill which forms the last projecting point of the mountain ridge that extends along the coast from Cape Pelorus to this point. The site of the old town is about 300 m above the sea, while a very steep and almost isolated rock, crowned by a Saracen castle, rises about 150 m higher: this is undoubtedly the site of the ancient Arx or citadel, the inaccessible position of which is repeatedly alluded to by ancient writers. Portions of the ancient walls may be traced at intervals all round the brow of the hill, the whole of the summit of which was evidently occupied by the ancient city. Numerous fragments of ancient buildings are scattered over its whole surface, including extensive reservoirs of water, sepulchres, tesselated pavements, etc., and the remains of a spacious edifice, commonly called a Naumachia, but the real destination of which it is difficult to determine. The Teatro Greco ("Greek theatre"). But by far the most remarkable monument remaining at Taormina is the ancient theatre (the teatro greco, or "Greek theatre"), which is one of the most celebrated ruins in Sicily, on account both of its remarkable preservation and of the surpassing beauty of its situation. It is built for the most part of brick, and is therefore probably of Roman date, though the plan and arrangement are in accordance with those of Greek, rather than Roman, theatres; whence it is supposed that the present structure was rebuilt upon the foundations of an older theatre of the Greek period. With a diameter of 109 metres (after an expansion in the 2nd century), this theatre is the second largest of its kind in Sicily (after that of Syracuse); it is frequently used for operatic and theatrical performances and for concerts. The greater part of the original seats have disappeared, but the wall which surrounded the whole cavea is preserved, and the proscenium with the back wall of the scena and its appendages, of which only traces remain in most ancient theatres, are here preserved in singular integrity, and contribute much to the picturesque effect, as well as to the interest, of the ruin. From the fragments of architectural decorations still extant we learn that it was of the Corinthian order, and richly ornamented. Some portions of a temple are also visible, converted into the church of San Pancrazio, but the edifice is of small size. taormina rainbow messina bougainvillea basil basilico hotel san domenico giardini naxos etna volcano vulcano island isola sicilia sicily italia italy sea sun landscape free europe wallpaper michael micky castielli resolution vacation holiday travel flight creativecommons creative commons zero CC0 cc0 CC cc panoramio flickr googleearth maps geotagged gnu gimp wikimedia

Inside The Colosseum

An interior view of the ruins of the ancient colosseum in the heart of Rome. An interior view of the ruins of the ancient colosseum in the heart of Rome

Antique old stone blocks

Antique old stone blocks and old palaces in ephesos (Turkey)

Pillars of a Temple in the Acropolis of Lindos

Pillars of a Temple in the Acropolis of Lindos in Rhodes Island, Greece

Colissem in El Djem, Tunisia 2

Ruins of colissem in El Djem, Tunisia 2

Italy, Campania, Pozzuoli Anfiteatro Falvio

Journey In the history of the Flavian Amphitheater - Pozzuoli undergrounds. Journey In the history of the Flavian Amphitheater - Pozzuoli undergrounds

Roman ruins

Ancient staircase

Kourion Place in Cyprus Ancient ruins of a town. Kourion Place in Cyprus Ancient ruins of a town

Ancient ruins of great stadium Colosseo, Rome, Italy

Baalbek, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon

Ruins at Baalbek, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon

Roman ruins bacchus temple

Roman ruins bacchus temple

Roman ruins at Paphos, Cyprus

Roman ruins at Paphos, Cyprus

Baths of Caracalla

Ruins of stairway, Baths of Caracalla, Rome

Greatness of Petra

The ruins of the ancient city Petra, Jordan. The ruins of the ancient city Petra, Jordan

The ancient Roman ruins of Volubilis in Morocco

The ancient Roman ruins of Volubilis in Morocco

Parthenon temple on the Acropolis in Athens

Parthenon temple on the Acropolis in a summer day in Athens, Greece. Parthenon temple on the Acropolis in a summer day in Athens, Greece

Old civilization

Ruins of an old civilization

Glanum near of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. France.

Glanum originally founded by the Greeks and after them the Romans took possession of this region, who added Glanum their buildings. Ruins of Glanum demonstrate a high standard of living of its inhabitants at that time. Glanum originally founded by the Greeks and after them the Romans took possession of this region, who added Glanum their buildings. Ruins of Glanum demonstrate a high standard of living of its inhabitants at that time.

Thermae Romanae

Roman bats in Sirmione, Garda lake, Italy. Roman bats in Sirmione, Garda lake, Italy

Column in Ephesus

The ruins of ancient city Ephesus, Turkey. The ruins of ancient city Ephesus, Turkey

Brescia - The columns of roman ruins of Capitolium

Brescia - The columns of roman ruins of Capitolium

Unique Philippi archaeological site, Greece Europe

Ruins of the ancient city and it is part of the periphery of East Macedonia in Greece. Ruins of the ancient city and it is part of the periphery of East Macedonia in Greece.

Roman ruins in Aosta, Italy

Roman ruins in Aosta, Italy

Rome View from the Circo Massimo

Rome, Italy : View from the Circo Massimo, Ruins. Rome, Italy : View from the Circo Massimo, Ruins

Roman ruins in Aosta, Italy. Ancient theatre.

Roman ruins in Aosta, Italy. Ancient theatre.

Ancient amphitheatre

The ruins of ancient amphitheatre, Demre, Turkey

Colosseum at night, Rome, Italy. Mystery creepy view of Ancient Coliseum in full moon

Colosseum at night, Rome, Italy. Mystery creepy view of Ancient Coliseum in full moon. Spooky dark scene with famous landmark in Rome city center in blue light. History, Halloween and horror concept

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