Greece: Monemvasia

And here is the view you have from the upper town.

And here is the view you have from the upper town.
The elaborate tiles are omnipresent in Southern Spain and Portugal: you find them as decorative elements on houes, but also as street sign, on park benches, in churches and many other likely and unlikely places. The plaza des España in Seville is full of them and even the "Torre del Oro" (Golden Tower) gets its colour from gilded azulejos! Usually, azulejos are mostly blue, as the name seems to indicate (azul=blue), but just about all other colours may be present as well. As to the origin of the name azulejo: although the connection to the Spanish word for "blue" seems obvious, experts ...
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September 10th, 2004 at 9:22 pm
Nice picture…i go to monemvasia every summer cause i have a house in the castle,congratulations for this photo,i havent seen anyone better than this one.