soritadeste:That girl in blue is me on the steps of a Doric Temple to Athena in Sicily (Italy). Thi
soritadeste:That girl in blue is me on the steps of a Doric Temple to Athena in Sicily (Italy). This temple in Ortygia survived because it became a Christian temple, then a Islamic Mosque and today it is the Cathedral of Syracuse. What is amazing is that most of the original building is still standing - in the inside you can see how some of the pillars were damaged by earthquakes, but it was saved because it continued to be a place of worship and the walls that were added between the pillars probably also contributed to it being stabilised. It is enormous and amazingly magical on many levels. It is next to the remains of a temple that was probably dedicated to Artemis which is under ground level today with an enormous building on top of it. That also in part survived because it was repurposed as Christian buildings of worship at one point in the past. -- source link