Blog Byzantine and Post-Byzantine culture and meet arhitektura.Shte articles, books, photographs and original materials concerning all etc. "Postbyzantine" area of the Balkans ... castles, medieval churches, frescoes, architecture and art of the Balkan Peninsula ... Namely today countries: Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Serbia, Macedonia, Romania jcpenney employee kiosk ... and why not from Russia jcpenney employee kiosk Ukraine, Moldova and Italy ... Middle East ... but later :)
In this corner of the state has focused quite remarkable places that a person worth to visit, seeking diversity during holidays, or if you just biting the cow and wants to be rapped around the bush ... because we are fans of medieval history Chez Make a obikolchitsa on these famous and not so famous obektcheta and locations of which still has left a stone upon a stone, so that he can make Neko photo, raziysh ... not to walk on bare lawn and imagining walls , pinnacles, towers and battlements ... actually this is the condition of most of our medieval monuments, but not digress ... So, where we said that we go .... Ivaylovgrad ... not a bad place, there are 1-2 small hotels pretty decent, so I shall not pick Gaile with accommodation and dinner place parsing daily affair ... Cause my denovive to brishem Kyra, but his evening jackets rakia, salad pa, pa clean sheets ... as it should be .. . Big medieval site near Ivaylovgrad fortress Lyutitsa ... or politicians ... From Ladzha quarter, starting on a rocky dirt road that after about 7 km takes us to the fortress ... mnoo nasty way ... I went several times and usually drive on it until I hurt your heart, then leave the car, usually after Ladzhanskiya monastery high and hence take walk ... walk around the hour ... ... bass heart you better not hurt or legs .. . I do not like to go ... If only there was a dzhipche ... until you fix the road will go over ... I do not know what the count to advertise this fortress as can people go and see it without vandalized cars or legs ... but cmon ... we have a 3:00 time for crushing and the last time prezhalihme ... On the way there is a detour to the Roman bridge, which is now restored properly and not bad to see if one gets there Lyutitsa Fortress is a mountain overgrown with forest vrah.Spetsialistite construction jcpenney employee kiosk date about X - XII century. The fortress walls are 600 meters long reserved places to a height of about 8 meters, is as interesting southeastern octagonal corner tower. In the fortress there are remains of a large church, built in the period around the X century with rich decoration, probably destroyed during the Ottoman invasion, and another in a small, late medieval church built on first. jcpenney employee kiosk Archaeologists discovered during excavations of the south aisle of the basilica funeral of a senior cleric, probably bishop. The cleric's body was buried according to the Byzantine tradition, sitting on a stone seat. In his left hand he holds a large cross pinned to the heart. The cross is made of bronze and rich ornaments. Periods of occupation of the fortress from the Middle Ages until around the eighteenth century. Among the findings is a copper coin of Ivan Assen II and two vasilikona emperor jcpenney employee kiosk Andronicus III (1325-1341) The Emperor John VI (1347-1354 years) / vasilikoni minted only from the end of XIII until about 90 years of the XIV century Century /, which are particularly valuable for science and ring a senior jcpenney employee kiosk dignitary ... Do Lyutitsa has the potential to become a very interesting place to visit, but now the walls are hidden in trevolyatsi, thorns and weeds and all towers jcpenney employee kiosk now you can see only two ... I hope ever to pave the way to restore it ... I dream ... Locals say that in the 50 years of the twentieth century, the walls were bombarded with artillery jcpenney employee kiosk during exercises valiant Bulgarian Army ... !!! Since the beginning of the X century to the reign of Emperor Andronicus II Palaeologus Lyutitsa was the center of the episcopate in the Diocese of Thrace subject to the Archbishop jcpenney employee kiosk of Philippopolis. Then her bishop was raised to metropolitan throne and his presence jcpenney employee kiosk is noted in the lists of synods from 1342 1347 and 1351 god.Prez winter of 1342-1343 год. The castle houses the detachment of the future emperor John Cantacuzino who was sent to seek provisions. During the civil war in Byzantium Andronicus III remains in history as the first Emperor, Turkish mercenaries used to solve the Balkan strife in conflict with his grandfather Andronicus II. John VI Cantacuzino goes even further, leaving them to settle on the peninsula. He is among the regents of the young John V and temporarily takes its power after another civil war in which soldiers used does emir of Smyrna Omura and Bulgarians are in the opposing camp. In 1351, frightened by the aggression jcpenney employee kiosk of the Ottoman Sultan Orhan, Kantakouzenos seek support in Turnovo and Ivan Alexander gave he promises, but under the influence of Serbian jcpenney employee kiosk King Stefan Dusan reneged - so fails
