Tuesday, October 26, 2010

The Gates of Iznik

This entire city is walled with walls this high. You can see the teenage boys coming home from school through the gates. There are four gates: North, South, East, and West. It is amazing they are still standing.

Parts of the wall









Cars drive through here. I think they live with this amazing history and are so used to it, that they don't protect it like it should be protected.


We accumulated some little friends while we were walking around. The wall on the side is actually a long aquaduct from Roman Times. There were about 6 of them following us around for about an hour.


Duard up on top trying to get a better view for a video.



Night view of one of the gates.


another view of the aquaduct.


If you look closely you can see Du at the entrance of the gate. That gives you reference for how massive these are.









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