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The Ruined Roman city of Caesarea (N56K)

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A visit to the ancient formerly Roman city of Caesarea in the north of Israel. The best shots had family members in them, so this is what's left :D.





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Yes, I did adjust the WB and Stops, as well as going in good weather. But comments and critique as always are welcomed and desired :).
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I like the one with the chariots. What does it symbolise?
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Zixinus wrote:I like the one with the chariots. What does it symbolise?
It symbolizes a statue of a roman chariot with 4 horses attached :P . It's on the track of the old racetrack/Palladium?
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It's amazing. How much of the structures are from antiquity and how much built in later years ?
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Sarevok wrote:It's amazing. How much of the structures are from antiquity and how much built in later years ?
Very little. A few stones were replaced, but not on anything shown here, the iron horse statue is new, not sure about the sea-front fortress in shot 3+4,the powerplants in the distance (Coal) are new.
The city was conquered by the Muslims around 1273 I think (give or take a century), and was a Roman city (Caesarea means "City of Caesar") before over 1,000 years beforehand. There's a massive aqueduct system along the coast there (Which isn't seen) that's still in amazing condition.

Those Romans built things to last for longer than todays America. Amazing.
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I'm guessing that the roof on that one wasn't built by Rome.... :P
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The second picture is definitely after 12th century; there wouldn't have been pointed arched rib vaults before then. The carving on the corbels looks like around 13th century. Are there crusader fortifications there?
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Alerik the Fortunate wrote:The second picture is definitely after 12th century; there wouldn't have been pointed arched rib vaults before then. The carving on the corbels looks like around 13th century. Are there crusader fortifications there?
As I recall, yes, I'm quite sure that the first shot of the lined walls is, along with the shot you mentioned and maybe some more of the fortifications.
coiler wrote:I'm guessing that the roof on that one wasn't built by Rome....
The Romans were big on metal and preserving their atriums, dontcha know ;). (I also saw a bunch of tourists letting their kids run rampant over the mosaics that roof was built to prevent :x )
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DEATH wrote: The Romans were big on metal and preserving their atriums, dontcha know ;). (I also saw a bunch of tourists letting their kids run rampant over the mosaics that roof was built to prevent :x )
You would probably be appalled by what tourists dare to do in Rome; I've personally seen people trying to chip away stones from the catacombs.
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