FBU4249841: Villa Medici. Villa from the italian renaissance. World Heritage (UNESCO). Classical garden in Renaissance style. Fiesole, Florence, Firenze, Tuscany, Italy - Italian Garden. Classic garden, House, Italian Renaissance style, lawn, potees. Trimmed hedges. Collection, citrus, Citrus silt (lemon tree), terracotta pots. Villa Medici, Fiesole, UNESCO Site. Florence, Firenze, Tuscany, Tuscany, Italy. / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250202: Minoan archeological site of Phaistos. General view of the west wing shrines along the central court from the north wing. There were two types of shrine: “Bench shrine” and “Lutral Basin””. The “” bench Shrine”” was a small and rectangular room with low benches running round the walls to support cult objects and figurine of the deity. On some of them were found female figurine, ritual vessels, and “” offering tables”” (small altar). The “” Lustral Basin”” type was a room lower than the founding structures, with a few steps leading down into them. It was used for purification rituals., Minoan / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250290: Minoan archeological site of Phaistos. General view of the west wing shrines along the central court from the north wing. There were two types of shrine: “Bench shrine” and “Lutral Basin””. The “” bench Shrine”” was a small and rectangular room with low benches running round the walls to support cult objects and figurine of the deity. On some of them were found female figurine, ritual vessels, and “” offering tables”” (small altar). The “” Lustral Basin”” type was a room lower than the founding structures, with a few steps leading down into them. It was used for purification rituals., Minoan / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250437: Remains of the harbour of the Ancient City of Phalasarna. West coast of Crete. The harbour was built aroud a lagoon and link to the sea via two channels.The city was inhabited, in the Minoan period, in the archaic and the classical years. At its peak between the middle of the 4th century BC and 67 BC., it was destroyed by the Romans, because it turned to piracy and its harbour went out of use. / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250582: Archaeological site of Gournia. Street system, storage and workshop houses of the palace from the west aera. Upright unworked stone slab deliberately set into the pavement of the street interpreted as a sacred stone. Gournia is the best preserved of all Minoan cities, and has been characterized as the “” Pompei Minoan Crete””. The cities has been found as it is now and has never been rebuilt. Gournia offers a picture of the daily life of the Minoan, who were engaged in agricultural, animal husbandry, fishing and vase-making as shown by the tools discovered in the settlement. Crete / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250617: Archaeological site of Gournia. South complex. Characteristic street of Gournia, stepped because of the inclination of the ground with remains of houses used as Workshop and storage room. Gournia is the best preserved of all Minoan cities, and has been characterized as the “” Pompei Minoan Crete””. The cities has been found as it is now and has never been rebuilt. Gournia offers a picture of the daily life of the Minoan, who were engaged in agricultural, animal husbandry, fishing and vase-making as shown by the tools discovered in the settlement. Crete / Bridgeman Images
FBU4250636: Archaeological site of Gournia. Gournia is the best preserved of all Minoan cities, and has been characterized as the “” Pompei Minoan Crete””. The city has been found as it is now and has never been rebuilt. Gournia offers a picture of the daily life of the Minoan, who were engaged in agricultural, animal husbandry, fishing and vase-making as shown by the tools discovered in the settlement. / Bridgeman Images