Love at first sight

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I loved that house the moment I laid eyes on it!

Old enough to awake all the nostalgic feelings that I tend to fall for, so easily and at the same time in a condition good enough to live in, without all the annoying problems of old houses. I should know. My previous house was more than 130 years old and as beautiful as it was, it made our life difficult as it was gradually collapsing on our heads :)

But this one looked great. And in the middle of a wonderful meadow too! How rare is that?

I started fantasising the garden I could create around it. All the vegetables, the fruit trees and the herbs I could plant in this nice plot, leaving of course the emblematic palm tree as a landmark of my house!

Too bad I can't live there, no-one can.

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All that, the house, the palm tree, the meadow, they are all in an archeological site which means that the ministry of culture is responsible for them and no-one could ever live there any more. Such an irony for a place that has been inhabited successively since the Neolithic period, something like 7.000 years in a row!

Whoever built this house and lived in it, was probably unaware of the enormous history of this location, as well as of the fact that he/she/they would be the last inhabitants of this specific spot.

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Those massive walls are the citadel of Tyrins, very close to the town of Nafplio in Greece. I have already written a post about the archeological significance of this place. If you are interested you can read it here.

But today I want to talk only about this house that will never be used as a house ever again! I don't know why I am so fond of it, let's just call it love at first sight :)

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And that view, isn't it great?

Although I was standing on a citadel, a place inseparably associated with war, I couldn't stop myself from daydreaming of a different version of history. A peaceful, creative, harmonious with nature and earth itself version, where citadels would not exist because no-one would be willing to go to war!

And then I wake up from my dream and walked back to the exit :)

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This is my entry for the #monomad challenge.

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_{The camera that I used is a Canon EOS 6D mark II with an EF 24-105mm f4L lens attached. I edited the photographs in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic}

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All the pictures and the words are mine.

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