Discovering Crete, Part 6 - Phaistos, the Minoan metropolis II

shaka (72) in photography • 7 years ago

Greetings Steemians!

In today's section of our tour through Phaistos we enter the central court of the Minoan palace. You can find the links to the previous parts of this series at the end of this post.

We reach the center of the palace through a former colonnade corridor that connects the west with the central court.

Like the west court, the central court has already been established in the city's first construction phase around 1900 BC.

The large central square is a building element of all Minoan palaces and represents the centre of economic, social and religious activities. The court is layed out as an elongated rectangle and paved with limestone plates. Two colonnades lined the court, from which games or ritual acts could be followed by spectators.

On the left one can nicely see the cavities that framed the pillars of the former colonnade. At the northern end of the court reconstructed columns mark the entry towards the king's quarter.

Towards the lower west one can see the remnants of a well. The view from the palace hill on the plains is really amazing.

After a short while of walking across the court one perfectly understands why this location had been chosen for the foundation of the city. Whoever approaches the hill will be spotted early-on. In fact, artefacts have been found which prove a settlement already in the Neolithic Age. Lucky the clan that was able to occupy this hill first.

I hope you enjoyed the visit of Phaistos so far. In the next post I will conclude with a few more photographic highlights from this historic place.

Until then, thanks for watching and have a great time on Steemit!

Shaka

Discovering Crete - All previous posts:


Part 1, Agiofárango, the Gorge of Saints I	Part 2, Agiofárango, the Gorge of Saints II

Part 3, Monastery Odigítrias I	Part 4, Monastery Odigítrias II

Part 5, Phaistos I

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7 years ago by shaka (72)

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chireerocks (72) · 7 years ago

Amazing and these trees are reflecting in an pattern and this pattern showcasing the art of ancient cropping. And whenever we watch any pattern in natural stuff then for sure that stuff really give us some amazing artistic essence.

And after exploring these pictures we can see one thing for sure and that is nature is telling that no matter what i am the Boss and here the human made structures are destroyed but those greenery is so refreshing that's why i can say that nature is superior than us and we have to respect nature for that.

Those composition of four pictures are truly reflecting one thing and that is pure Emptiness and Loneliness and that's why slowly nature is taking away this place and one day everything will be covered with greenery.

And i hope that you've really feel the ancient essence of this place and i always want to explore these type of places because i want to feel through the places how the old civilisation lived.

Thanks for sharing this post with us and wishing you an great day. Stay blessed. 🙂