The castle at Ioannina overlooks the Limni Ioanninon, or the Lake of Ioannina. On an island on this lake the Sultan Ali Pasha hid up for three years during the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire. As the poet Rigas wrote in his war song poem -
"Better one hour of free life,
Than forty years of slavery and prison."
A sentiment being expressed perhaps by the rioters in Athens at this moment against the EU "bailout" of the Greek economy.
More....... later when I resize some pix
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