The churh of St Peter and St Paul, built around 1360. In our tour book it says that the future of the church is uncertain. Unbelievable. The oldest building in SA is about 335 years old. Conservation is a reltavely new conccept in our civilization. I was told this week by a colleague that a lot of the stones to build the Suez Canal were harvested from the Salamis ruins. Apparently it used to be common practice to use stones from older buildings to build new ones. Its unthinkable that people from as late as late 19th C did not consider preserving Salamis!
Friday, May 11, 2007
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