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| West View of Cantara Castle. Image size: 19.3 x 12.3 cms. "........ The village of Agathou, on the skirts of the mountains, is extremely pleasant; but we saw nothing else worth regarding till we came to Zdavlo, where we found a pretty good bay, with a rock on each side, and ruins which possibly may have been Aphrodisium, as this was the first thing like a port which we met with in the division of Carpass. From this place we mounted a very steep hill to visit the castle of Cantara, the buildings and fortifications of which we were told , remained almost entire. We accordingly dismounted, at the foot of the rock on which it stands; and, a very difficult and fatiguing search, ascended to a gate, through which we entered; and viewing the whole, found it is as much out of repair as any we had seen.........." |