Caesarea

Caesarea is a place I only knew from brief mentions in early church history - I had no idea what magnificence it stood for at the time, or how beautiful even the ruins of it are. I feel no words or pictures I put here will do it justice, so click on the link for that.

Anyway, what I found interesting was the casual way Israelis seem to treat these historically significant artefacts . Luxembourg is an extreme in the other end, where they seem to spend a fortune on trying to renovate the insignificant into significance, but Norway isn't too far from that either: more money than sites (i.m.h.o.). Then there are other places that just have more sites than money, so they can't afford to maintain them all, like Turkey or Egypt. But at Caeasarea it seemed there'd been a decision to make Caesarea into a facility people use, even if it does chip away at the irreplaceable. So they'd made a picnic area / eating complex where kids played ball on parts of the ruins. Lively, at least.

More photos in the Caesarea photo album.