Under the Ottomans, whose most significant cities remained Constantinople and Thessaloniki, as they had been for the Byzantines, Athens metamorphosed into a provincial Turkish village. Otto and his Bavarian architects set out to rebuild it-few houses were left standing after the years of the War of Independence, so they had a remarkably blank canvas, inContinue reading “RKS Travel (Travels in Greece): Athens the Munich of the Mediterranean? (Patricia Storace)”
