Out and About July 2022 issue199
Welcome to the July 2022 edition of the most popular free leisure read in Costa Blanca Spain, Out and About Magazine Costa Blanca. Read and relax with interesting articles and to find some great restaurants and local businesses. What is going on in the local areas of Moraira, Calpe, Javea, Benissa and Altea the \areas is known as the Marina Alta Costa Blanca. You can find the handy A5 printed version of Out and About magazine, at local bars, cafes, shops, and restaurants which you can keep with you when you are out for a walk or sitting on the beach.
Welcome to the July 2022 edition of the most popular free leisure read in Costa Blanca Spain, Out and About Magazine Costa Blanca. Read and relax with interesting articles and to find some great restaurants and local businesses. What is going on in the local areas of Moraira, Calpe, Javea, Benissa and Altea the \areas is known as the Marina Alta Costa Blanca. You can find the handy A5 printed version of Out and About magazine, at local bars, cafes, shops, and restaurants which you can keep with you when you are out for a walk or sitting on the beach.
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JULY <strong>2022</strong> | 19<br />
A Tale of Two Cities<br />
When we first visited Ampurias (Costa<br />
Brava) in 1967 on-site ruins were<br />
pretty much limited to (part of) the<br />
Ancient Greek trading settlement (Greek:<br />
Emborio = trade) which had once been at sealevel<br />
<strong>and</strong>, behind that, atop a low hill, a large<br />
stretch of flat, scrub-l<strong>and</strong>.<br />
Only on return visits in later years would<br />
we learn that this ‘large stretch of flat, scrubl<strong>and</strong>”’<br />
was the site of a later/larger Roman city<br />
flanked by a massive wall.... on this, our first<br />
visit, we only ‘discovered’ a small paved area<br />
with one or two column-stumps, near which<br />
ran a low stone wall with a drainage channel.<br />
Future excavations were to reveal much<br />
more to us!<br />
Returning to (Emborio) we entered the Greek<br />
settlement (trading city) by scaling huge, cubelike<br />
boulders which had once lined a gr<strong>and</strong>,<br />
stone entrance-stairway.<br />
Many Ancient Greek cities proclaimed<br />
their status by the size <strong>and</strong> gr<strong>and</strong>eur of their<br />
entrances. (Stepped - arched - impressively<br />
heavy - walls from which statues of Gods <strong>and</strong><br />
Heroes greeted arriving visitors - etc.).<br />
My “Magic Travel Moment”, not the only<br />
one that (Emborio) was to present to me over<br />
the years, came as I climbed those entrancestairway<br />
boulders that morning.... massively<br />
Bronze Age.... just how were the ancient<br />
builders able to move them around? And with<br />
such precision?<br />
What can one say when confronted by such<br />
achievements!<br />
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please contact<br />
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email - lisa.calpe7@yahoo.co.uk
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