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20090521_Greece_Rhodes_Filerimos_ViewOfCity.JPG
Like most of the cities of ruins on higher ground, there are places with excellent vantage points of the more modern city below.

20090521_Greece_Rhodes_Filerimos_StationOfTheCross.JPG
When Italians occupied this island in the 1920s, they tried to improve the grounds at Filerimos. They built a walk to Calvary, with stations of the cross leading to a large cross overlooking the island. (If you look closely, you'll see that the text…

20090521_Greece_Rhodes_Filerimos_Ruins.JPG
A much earlier settlement, called Ialyssos, had its own Acropolis here on Rhodes.

20090521_Greece_Rhodes_Filerimos_Grounds.JPG
Trees frame the walkways through the settlement at Filerimos.

20090521_Greece_Rhodes_Filerimos_Church.JPG
Built by the Knights of Malta in the 14th century, this monastery and its grounds were renovated and rebuilt in the 1920s.

20150721_Spain_Valldigna_Monastery.JPG
The ruins of a monastery at Valldigna. Founded by monks in 1297 and empty since 1835, the monastery is tucked into the hills of the Valencia region.
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