Byzantine towns and castles can still be found with their prolific presence. The beaches in here are famous for windsurfing, and scuba diving. Elli beach has casino and aquarium with many dolphins and even some rare species of large ...
Last night, as planned, I ventured out to watch the Netherlands play Uruguay (awesome game, btw). On the way, I passed some coaches with... FEP people, you get three guesses... Yup. Collette Vacations. ... I'm off to look at a mosaic I studied in my second year of undergrad. Mostly just because I can. But also because it is one of the best surviving examples of a Byzantine mosaic this side of... well... The Byzantine. The basilica of San Vitale itself is worth visiting, ...
Eventually, in the 7th century, Greek colonists led by King Byzas established the colony of Byzantium, the Greek name for a city on the Bosphorus. Byzas chose the spot after consulting an oracle of Delphi who told him to settle across ...