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Nir > Stock photo shot at Masada National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Judean Desert. A complex of palaces and fortifications built y Herod the Great overlooking the Dead Sea was the location of mass suicide by Jewish fugitives of the Roman Empire. Photo displays a view of the Dead Sea through a window hole atop the mountain. Shot January 2008.
Nir > Stock photo of rising moon and ancient Herodian stone ruins in black and white. Shot June 2007 at Caesarea Israel.
Nir > Cesarea, Caesarea, Caesarea Maritima , Caesarea Palaestina, a city built by Herod the Great about 13BC. Today, the city lies on the Mediterranean coast of Israel about halfway between the modern day cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa. The city was described in detail by 1st century Jewish historian Josephus for the massacre of Jews at this place led to the Jewish rebellion and to the Roman war. The civil life of the new city began in 13 BC, when Caesarea was made the civil and military capital of Judaea, and the official residence of the Roman procurators and governors, Pontius Pilatus, praefectus and Antonius Felix. After the Jewish revolt led by Simon Bar Kokhba, which ended with the destruction of Jerusalem, Caesarea became the center of Christianity in Palestine. Shot May 2007.
Nir > Cesarea, Caesarea, Caesarea Maritima , Caesarea Palaestina, a city built by Herod the Great about 13BC. Today, the city lies on the Mediterranean coast of Israel about halfway between the modern day cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa. The city was described in detail by 1st century Jewish historian Josephus for the massacre of Jews at this place led to the Jewish rebellion and to the Roman war. The civil life of the new city began in 13 BC, when Caesarea was made the civil and military capital of Judaea, and the official residence of the Roman procurators and governors, Pontius Pilatus, praefectus and Antonius Felix. After the Jewish revolt led by Simon Bar Kokhba, which ended with the destruction of Jerusalem, Caesarea became the center of Christianity in Palestine. Shot May 2007.
Nir > Stock photo of the Hagia Maria Sion Abbey Dormition of Our Lady Monastery on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, Israel. Built on the location of the Last Supper according to tradition this is also where Mary lived and died. The land was bought by the German Emperor Wilhelm II from the Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid in 1898. The first Benedictine monks arrived in 1906.
Nir > Stock photo of Old City Jerusalem walls and ramparts in early morning sun. Surrounding an area of less than one square kilometer the walls were built in the 16th century by the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman.
Nir > Stock photo shot October 2006 in Cividale del Friuli, Italy. Traditionally founded in 50BC by Julius Caesar it became the capital of the first Longobard Dukedom in Italy in 568. In 1420 the city was included in the Venetian Republic and eventually recognised as the historical and cultural capital of Friuli. Located at the foot of the Julian Alps Cividale was a fortified city surrounded by a wall. Today it is a colorful cultural and historical location bursting with tourism, narrow streets, cafes, Italian restaurants and pubs. Photo displays spectators of a parade looking out through the windows of their homes to the street below. Two women peak through a flower decorated window.
Nir > Stock photo shot October 2006 in Cividale del Friuli, Italy. Traditionally founded in 50BC by Julius Caesar it became the capital of the first Longobard Dukedom in Italy in 568. In 1420 the city was included in the Venetian Republic and eventually recognised as the historical and cultural capital of Friuli. Located at the foot of the Julian Alps Cividale was a fortified city surrounded by a wall. Today it is a colorful cultural and historical location bursting with tourism, narrow streets, cafes, Italian restaurants and pubs. Photo displays spectators of a parade looking out through the windows of their homes to the street below. Two women peak through a flower decorated window.
Nir > Stock photo shot October 2006 in Cividale del Friuli, Italy. Traditionally founded in 50BC by Julius Caesar it became the capital of the first Longobard Dukedom in Italy in 568. In 1420 the city was included in the Venetian Republic and eventually recognised as the historical and cultural capital of Friuli. Located at the foot of the Julian Alps Cividale was a fortified city surrounded by a wall. Today it is a colorful cultural and historical location bursting with tourism, narrow streets, cafes, Italian restaurants and pubs. Photo displays spectators of a parade looking out through the windows of their homes to the street below.
Stock photo shot at Masada National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Judean Desert. A complex of palaces and fortifications built y Herod the Great overlooking the Dead Sea was the location of mass suicide by Jewish fugitives of the Roman Empire. Photo displays a view of the Dead Sea through a window hole atop the mountain. Shot January 2008.
Nir > Stock photo shot at Masada National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Judean Desert. A complex of palaces and fortifications built y Herod the Great overlooking the Dead Sea was the location of mass suicide by Jewish fugitives of the Roman Empire. Photo displays a view of the Dead Sea through a window hole atop the mountain. Shot January 2008.
Stock photo shot at Masada National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Judean Desert. A complex of palaces and fortifications built y Herod the Great overlooking the Dead Sea was the location of mass suicide by Jewish fugitives of the Roman Empire. Photo displays a view of the Dead Sea through a window hole atop the mountain. Shot January 2008.
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