Mesa Verde

Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, U.S.A. UNESCO World Heritatge

travel time 22 days

distance travelled 8,663 km

 received  on 9 Oct, 2017
sent by Alix, U.S.A

Mesa Verde, Spanish for green table, offers a spectacular look into the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo people who made it their home for over 700 years, from AD 600 to 1300. Today the park protects nearly 5,000 known archeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings. These sites are some of the most notable and best preserved in the United States

Mesa Verden kansallispuisto

Colorado, USA

Mesa Verden kansallispuistossa sijaitsee lounais-Coloradossa. Puisto on tunnettu erityisesti muinaisten pueblointiaanien rakentamista taloista ja kylistä. Kuuluisimmat näistä ovat luoliin ja kallionkielekkeiden alle rakennetut rakennukset. Kansallispuistossa sijaitsee Yhdysvaltain suurimmaksi oletettu ”kielekerakennus” Cliff Palace.  Mesa Verden kansallispuisto valittiin 1978 Unescon maailmanperintöluetteloon. Unescon mukaan Mesa Verden muinaisjäännös todistaa pohjoisamerikkalaisten intiaanien muinaisisesta perinteestä.

Ephesus, Turkey

Turkey, Ephesus, Fountain of Trajan

 Upper row: 

The Polio Fountain,

 The House of Virgin Mary, 

 The Temples of Dea Roma and Divus Julius Caesar (Temenos)

Lower row: 

The Prytaneion , 

Theatre, 

Curetes Street

From my vacation to Turkey and Ephesus

Chichen Itza

Chichén Itzá is a large Mayan city famous for a large, pyramid temple built by the Maya civilization. It is on the Yucatán Peninsula, about 120 km to the east of Mérida. The temple, called Castillo, is about 1 km in diameter. There are many temples and pyramids at Chichen Itza.  

 Chichén Itzá on kuuluisin ja parhaiten kunnostettu esikolumbiaaninen arkeologinen alue ja historiallinen kaupunki Jukatanin niemimaalla Meksikossa. Sen rakentamisen aloittivat mayat. Chichén Itzá kuuluu Unescon maailmanperintöluetteloon. Vuonne 2007 Chichen Itza valittiin maailman uuden seitsemän ihmeen joukkoon globaalin yleisöäänestyksen perusteella. Alue on Meksikon toiseksi eniten vierailtu arkeologinen kohde. 

Great add for my UNESCO World Heritage collection. Thank you Heather!

Distance: 7,047 km
Travel time: 12 days

Libraries

Library completed in 135 AD.

The library of Celsus is an ancient Roman building in Ephesus, Turkey. It was built in honour of the Roman Senator Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus  by Celsus' son, Gaius Julius Aquila. The library was built to store 12,000 scrolls and to serve as a mausoleum for Celsus, who is buried in a crypt beneath the library.

Library completed in 2006.

The National Library of Belarus  is located in a new 72-metre (236 feet) high building in Minsk. The building has 22 floors and can seat about 2,000 readers and features a 500-seat conference hall. Its main architectural component has the shape of a rhombicuboctahedron. The library's new building was designed by architects Mihail Vinogradov and Viktor Kramarenko.

Lindos, Rhodes

Lindos is an archaeological site, a town and a former municipality on the island of Rhodes, Greece.  It lies on the east coast of the island. It is about 50 km south of the town of Rhodes and its fine beaches make it a popular tourist and holiday destination. Lindos is situated in a large bay and faces the fishing village and small resort of Haraki.

Wikipedia

Knossos

The Palace of Minos

Knossos is the largest Bronze Age archeological site in Crete  and considered as Europe's oldest city.