4256 x 2831 px | 36 x 24 cm | 14,2 x 9,4 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
30 juillet 2011
Lieu:
Moni Arkadiou. Crete. Greece.
Informations supplémentaires:
Moni Arkadiou. Crete. Greece. View of the façade of the striking golden stone Venetian church inside the beautiful and impressive Monastery of Arkadiou. Dating from 1587, the church has a highly decorative façade with a mix of styles including Baroque, Renaissance, Gothic and Neoclassical. The Orthodox Monastery of Arkadiou was originally founded in the 11 century and is set on a plateau in the ida Mountains 23 kilometres southeast of Rethymno. It was the scene of glorious tragic incident event in 1866 during the Cretan resistance against Turkish forces in which a large number of refugees as well as Cretan freedom fighters sacrificed their lives by deciding to blow-up themselves with the powder magazine stores here rather than suffer death at the hands of the Turks. Crete is Greece’s largest island and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean.
