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Places to visit => Places to visit => Topic started by: Hilary on June 09, 2017, 04:19:19 PM

Title: Larissa, Thessaly, Greece
Post by: Hilary on June 09, 2017, 04:19:19 PM
Larissa, Thessaly, Greece.
The fifth most populous city in Greece and the hottest.
Although there are a couple of museums to visit and the river Peneus to see I spent my day near the Fortress Hill.
The photos were taken in the Ancient Theatre, built in the first half of the 3rd C, B.C.
I tried to include as many wild flowers as I could but the area and stones seemed to be inhospitable to plant life.
I do believe a couple of the plants are Capparis , Capparis spinosa which you will have  read in TMG and this Forum just how difficult they are to grow.
Title: Re: Larissa, Thessaly, Greece
Post by: Hilary on June 10, 2017, 04:33:31 PM
Larissa, Fortress Hill
The Bezesteni, an old Ottoman building, on Fortress Hill.
When I arrived here it had been taken over by school children on a half day “walk” with their  teachers.
Many of the boys were enjoying a game of football on the wide space in front of the Bezesteni and the girls were sitting in the shade chatting.
Later I went to look at the young trees, Magnolia and Linden and the Bust of Byron on Philhellenon Street
Title: Re: Larissa, Thessaly, Greece
Post by: Joanna Savage on June 10, 2017, 06:37:07 PM
Hello Hilary, one time I was  in Larisa at the station, maybe in '86, and read the graffito 'Jethro Tull' liberally decorating walls and columns. It was amazing that such an agricultural pioneer, the inventor of the horse drawn seed drill among other things should have been celebrated at Larisa station. The land is flat and alluvial around there, so perhaps seed drills were a new idea. It was only later that I learnt that Jethro Tull was a much admired band.
Title: Re: Larissa, Thessaly, Greece
Post by: Hilary on June 06, 2022, 06:01:37 AM
THE DIACHRONIC MUSEUM OF LARISSA
I didn't see anything flowery inside the museum, which even so is interesting, however, there were quite a few plants outside.
The poster/ wall hanging outside the museum features three sculptured heads which can be seen inside the museum, all from different eras.
Below the poster there is a group of topiarized plants. I like the one on the left which looks as if it is escaping and next to it a plant which looks like a volunteer
 

Title: Re: Larissa, Thessaly, Greece
Post by: Hilary on June 07, 2022, 06:30:25 AM
DIACHRONIC MUSEUM OF LARISSA
There were roses everywhere in Greece in May and this museum was no exception with several rose bushes in the grounds.
Here is a bush of pink roses and some orange roses with an insect
Title: Re: Larissa, Thessaly, Greece
Post by: Hilary on June 08, 2022, 05:25:50 AM
DIACHRONIC MUSEUM OF LARISSA
White roses trying to escape through the railings
Title: Re: Larissa, Thessaly, Greece
Post by: Hilary on June 09, 2022, 06:20:29 AM
DIACHRONIC MUSEUM OF LARISSA
Roses and the ubiquitous Oenothera speciosa in a flower bed