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Sunday, January 14, 2024

The Lion Gate

The entrance to the citadel, front and back.

The heads of the lions may have originally been made from something other than stone, but they're long gone. The Classical Greeks called this stonework “Cyclopean” because they thought only the Cyclops would have been able to hoist those enormous stones.

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