- Συγγραφέας
- Παυλόπουλος Μπάμπης
- Εκδόσεις
- Bookstars-Free Publishing
This is an amazing walk next to wall-houses, high towers, inseparable building fronts, narrow cobbled streets, vaulted passages, fortified gates, and pirate raids. A walk in the today whitewashed, medieval Aegean Sea settlements, a walk in heavy fortified Maniot settlements, a walk, passing of some of the most beautiful places in Greece. This is a walk next to war, next to battles and sieges, finally next to the eternal need of people to protect themselves against of any external enemy. The public or collective defense is our subject, and the architecture that was born in the Greek area, when the participation of the buildings took the place of the most organic element of the fortifications and defense. Small traditional settlements and their history that managed to survive until today in their authentic form are presented, as well as the memory of some others, which did not manage to, just surviving into the book pages or the computer files. Certainly, and first of all, this is also a...
