The snow was with us many miles
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The snow was with us many miles
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Suddenly the sea,the Black Sea,appeared.
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Then the peninsula of Old Town of Nesebar revealed us
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On the passageway toward the old town a windmill meets us.
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This,rather simple construction from the 17th century,turned into a symbol used by architects at the buildings of the new town
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Generally speaking a windmill asks open spaces.Here architects put this like windmill ornament in a closed corner of the building.The answer could be "to open that closed space".For my taste the result is a failure.
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On the other side of the passageway there are a small Yachting Club and an interesting statue.
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Whom does this statue represent?Being from 2006 easiest way to find the answer seems to be asking the author,Stavri Kalinov.He said this is a new Noah,with a dove in his left hand,who looks for a new land.But others think this is Saint Nicholas the protector of the sailors because he has a cross in his right hand and all people know that Noah was not Christian and the cross, as a symbol,was unknown for Noah:eek:
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PS I didn't want to send away neither the bird from the head of the boat nor that from the cross.
This peninsula is around 900 feet long and 400 feet wide.It has two main roads with many narrow streets between them.Now the boats will spend the winter on the ground waiting for the future tourists.
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The ruins of the walls of the ancient town of Messembria(now Nessebar) are still standing and the tourists could see them just the entrance
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Built and rebuilt,...,built and rebuilt were these walls for many times but only nowadays they were rebuilt for touristy purposes :D
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The scientists said that a third of this peninsula was swallowed by the sea
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After a short rain we went out for a walk on the streets,now,in this so called dead season,without tourists
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PS:HAPPY EASTER or whatever You use to say in this Sunday!
This town,whose age is almost 7000years,first,was of Thracians then was conquered by Greeks(with fights or quietly by a peaceful migration,who could know all the truth),now is a seaside resort "conquered" by Germans :D.Here you could see a German"town"or maybe a holiday "Bayerischer Hof" inside.
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In time the need to wash increased so in the beginning of 6th c.these baths were built.There were the ages of Justinian I the Great,the Emperor of Byzantium.Then were wars and wars again and the need of cleanliness together decreased-because the need of fight increased. Then shower was invented and in every house was one,at least:eek:In 9th c.,those who survived built over a cereal depot and lime-kilns.Don't worry,the intensity of the fights increased in time:)
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The legends say there were 40 churches here..This is from 14th c.and its name is St.John Undedicated(Aliturgetos).
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It says that the reason to remain "Aliturgetos" was that a builder fell down and died inside the church,this"killing" did it inadmissible for future worships.
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Others say the reason should have been that the crusaders under Amadeus of Savoy's command burned out its roof.
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Then... the earthquakes finished what they begun.
Nessebar,like many other places of the Europe,was a many-layers "sandwich".First were Thracians,over they were Greeks,then Romans,then Greeks again-as Byzantines-,then Slavs-from 5th c.-Bulgarians conquered the Slavs,ruled them and at the end of 7th c.did first Bulgarian state-recognized by Byzantium.From those strange times you could see the ruins of Old Metropolitan Church-St.Sophia
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Walking without a precise goal we found some things with a strange perfume.
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