From Cappadocia we flew back to Istanbul to board our cruise ship! Hooray! We could unpack and not live out of our suitcases!
First port - Nessebar, Bulgaria, a World Heritage site. This town has been inhabited for the last 3000 years. Originally a Greek seaport, then a Byzantine city, controlled by the Ottoman Empire and then finally a part of the Bulgarian State! I believe these are among the most unusual buildings I've seen!
Wonderful old frescoes covered the interior walls.
One of the churches was in ruins and had not been restored.
The Byzantines who built this church put it on top of a Greek Temple and even used marble from that temple in the walls of this Orthodox church.
Quite a day in a place I never even imagined being!
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