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Well since we all enjoy history on this forum and have our favorite historical places or battle sites etc. and so what place or places would you like to visit that's outside your current country if you ever had the opportunity.
Well since i've been to Italy a few times (navy) i would love to visit Lindisfarne Monastery Ruins in NE England as that's where in 793 A.D. the Vikings first appeared on the European scene and attacked the monastery and killed all the monks that fateful day as that would definitely be a nostalgia place for me.
The second place would be anywhere along the ancient British Road called Waitling Street or Iter III by the Romans that transversed from SE England to Wales as the famous battle in 60 A.D. between Iceni Queen Boudica and Roman Govenor Suetonius occured along the ancient road in the area around current day Mancetter.
What historical place or places would you like to visit?
I'm working on a list !! I would love to go to Verdun. Also the Castle de Coucy in France, and about 100 places in Germany! Also Hitcham and Rattlesden in Britain where some of my ancestors lived before immigrating to America in the 1600's
Did you get to see any historic places in Italy?
Currently reading a history of London titled " London The Biography" by Peter Ackroyd. Would really enjoy seeing all the historical sites in that famous city.
Well since we all enjoy history on this forum and have our favorite historical places or battle sites etc. and so what place or places would you like to visit that's outside your current country if you ever had the opportunity.
Well since i've been to Italy a few times (navy) i would love to visit Lindisfarne Monastery Ruins in NE England as that's where in 793 A.D. the Vikings first appeared on the European scene and attacked the monastery and killed all the monks that fateful day as that would definitely be a nostalgia place for me.
The second place would be anywhere along the ancient British Road called Waitling Street or Iter III by the Romans that transversed from SE England to Wales as the famous battle in 60 A.D. between Iceni Queen Boudica and Roman Govenor Suetonius occured along the ancient road in the area around current day Mancetter.
What historical place or places would you like to visit?
I've been to Lindisfarne (Holy Island). Definitely worth the visit but you have to time it right. It is reached by a causeway that is only drivable at low tide. Once high tide comes in, you're stuck there until the next low tide.
The ruins of the monastery are still there, of course, as is Lindisfarne Castle. The semi-isolated nature of the place has helped to preserve it's relatively pristine condition.
Although Naples and Gaeta are both ancient Greek (Magna Graecia) and Roman cities however they had a more distinct middle ages gothic look than the classic ancient Greek Corinthian column architecture style (Rome, Athens etc.) as it was mainly bath houses, churches, narrow cobblestone streets, markets and some government structures from the 1200's that we saw on our tour of the cities however i was stoked to tour the Castel Del Ovo as it was first built in the Roman Republic and then fortified up by Emperor Valentinian III in the 440's A.D. to withstand the Vandal threat and also the last Roman Emperor Romulus Augustulus was sent to it in exile when the Ostrogoths overthrew the Empire.
I must say that i found it nostalgic when looking at Mt Vesuvius (classic cone shape look) across the bay from where we were docked as i was imagining how that fateful day in 79 A.D. must have been when it erupted and demolished and covered with lava the Roman villas of Pompeii and Hercuaneum.
Yeap i'd put Palatine Hill on my list to see as that's where the Emperial Palace was located until Diocletian moved it to Milan in 286 A.D. as there are still ruins of it that has survived for 2000 years.
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I've been to Lindisfarne (Holy Island). Definitely worth the visit but you have to time it right. It is reached by a causeway that is only drivable at low tide. Once high tide comes in, you're stuck there until the next low tide.
The ruins of the monastery are still there, of course, as is Lindisfarne Castle. The semi-isolated nature of the place has helped to preserve it's relatively pristine condition.
Angus P
Thanks for reporting about your visit there and yes i've heard about getting into it via low and high tides across the causeway from some of the British posters before on the United Kingdom forum who've also visited it but yeap it would be so nostalgic to see the place where the Viking raiders first attacked some 1200 years ago .
Personally, I would like to sail the Ionian coast of Turkey and explore all the Greco Roman ruins. Evidently, many remain almost completely untouched, due to both the lack of population in the area and that it's off the beaten paths. Plus it would be a nice sunny vacation.
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