Identifier: palestinesyriawi01karl (find matches)
Title: Palestine and Syria : with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia : handbook for travellers
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm) Socin, A. (Albert), 1844-1899 Benzinger, I. (Immanuel), 1865-1935 Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921
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Publisher: Leipzig : Karl Baedeker London : T. Fisher Unwin New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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across the deep moat, nowovergrown with pine-trees. To the left rises the massive S. W. Bas-tion\Torrione diLimisso; PL B, 0, 5), which formerly included themain gateway. This structure, erected by the Venetians at the endof the 15th cent., was exposed, like the whole of the S. front of thetown, to the full force of the Turkish guns in the siege of 1571. Theravelin in front, which covered the entrance, was af.erwards con-verted by the Turks into a second bastion. The better-preserved W.front of the town-wall dates, according to an inscription, from 1496. On entering the fortress, we turn to the right into the square infront of the Greek Cathedral of St. Nicholas (Hagios Nikdlaos ,-PI. D, 3), now a mosque. (The carriage halts at a Turkish cafe.)This magnificent church dates from the first half of the 14th cent.and its facade recalls that of Rheims; it has no narthex. Theinterior consists of a nave and aisles without a transept; the Mll/f;M\il Toraione delDit (Karpa* Tabir orV.E.Baeaoif
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