"Intimations of Byzantium: Hidden History of Turkey’s Caucasus and Eastern Anatolia
Text by Christopher Deliso
Forty-five minutes from Trabzon, on the temperate Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey, Sumela rose out of a cliff, surrounded by lush verdure. The best Byzantine monasteries always take effort to reach, and this one was no exception. Visiting Sumela reaffirmed that unique aesthetic genius of the Byzantines to seek, whenever possible, to harmonize their sacred sites with the contours of the natural world."
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