Crossword: Safety In The Laboratory

The road to the Upper Town is a serpentine system you can hardly call stairs in the In the middle of the city on the rock wall is going up and was obviously not just for pedestrians but also for riders built . It consists of bedrock and built-in step, all different bearing long, broad, high and deep, then highest concentration is REQUIRED to can not seriously stumbles. But this is true (attenuated) to almost all paths and stairs in the city.
There are some gates on the way, in the past were probably gates admitted.

you see above a photograph of the "ladder" (unfortunately not so easy to recognize because of the sun's position) and the sehr großen To rgebäudegruppe oben am Eingang zur Oberstadt.











Die Treppenaufgänge, die aus der Höhe gepflegter und regelmäßiger ausssehen als sie es von unten sind

Unten siehst Du einen inneren Teil der Toranlage, die aus mehreren Räumen, Durchgängen etc. besteht, alles für Reiter geeignet, von oben g esehen.

And then there is a huge ruins and rubble. Because of the hilly terrain can not see everything at once and is always surprised by new views . The ruins are quite different, Byzantine, ve nezianischer, Ottoman origin and mixed in accordance see from the wreckage ... .

V enezianisches residential buildings .... Steam bath house ... . Türkische Grabstätt e (was ich nicht ganz glaube, die sehen eigentlich ander s aus, aber vielleicht ist es ja eine Art Mausoleum)







Sehr beeindruckt haben mich die beiden riesigen Zisternen zur Wasserversorgung der gesamten Oberstadt (in der Unterstadt hatte jedes Hau s seine eigene Zisterne). Es sind sehr große am Hang gelegene zementartig versiegelte (aber again now overgrown) and walled area to catch the rain, and covered cistern building for storage of collected water. The cisterns have Venetian name, the small top is called 'Galera, the large lower' Galeazza '.

The tanks you see in the upper left of the photo, above the other, the water reservoirs are below to recognize not so good.




is the only well-preserved building, which is probably the church, logically, their stones are not affected. In this case, the Agia Sofia at the far end of the rock, they oll s inside be very nice, but, as always, complete. But from the outside she is beautiful nd u also pretty romantic view. Single storey front one is obviously standing on vault tonnes, or a roof, it must be located so 'underground' or several rooms. The olive tree on its side is the only tree on the Fe loosening, apart from a eucalyptus and pine at the gatehouse of the upper town.

The Agia Sofia and the view from her rock


























monastery of Agia Sofia and olive tree







wall detail of Agia Sofia and the giant fennel letzten Jahr auf de r Klippe












Nach dem Ruinenfeld der Oberstadt führt der Pfad weiter in die Höhe des Felsens, an drei Seiten das Meer, an der vierten die lakonische Küste der Peloponnes. An einem regnerischen und windigen Tag (wie diesem) ist die Wanderung besonders beeindru ckend. Außer mir war nur noch ein niederländisches Ehepaar unterwegs.
Man erreicht schließlich die Akropolis, die noch einmal mit ei ner dritten Wall (after the Lower Town and Upper Town Wall) was attached and are available from the remnants, it was built during the Venetian period, is also still the thick solid powder magazine of the Venetians, the roof is completely covered .

The view from above is great and the rain certainly pleasant than in the blazing sun with no shade.













Venetian powder magazine and look at Laconia