Esther's photos with the keyword: old
Old and new
14 Feb 2021 |
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Modern brick from the 1970's patches an area near old brick from the early to mid-1800's.
The Sunday Challenge. New on old.
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The fortress
13 May 2012 |
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The statute of Count Schulenburg, the Austrian mercenary who was the hero of the siege of 1716 overlooks the old fortress in Corfu, Greece. The Turks' attempt to take Corfu failed.
Corfu's "history is laden with battles and conquests. The legacy of these struggles is visible in the form of castles punctuating strategic locations across the island. Two of these castles enclose its capital, which is the only city in Greece to be surrounded in such a way. As a result, Corfu's capital has been officially declared a Kastropolis ("castle city") by the Greek government. Corfu was long controlled by Venice, which repulsed several Turkish sieges, before falling under British rule following the Napoleonic Wars. Corfu was eventually ceded by the British Empire along with the remaining islands of the United States of the Ionian Islands, and unification with modern Greece was concluded in 1864 under the Treaty of London."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corfu
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