Outdoor Pitstop
The story
Story · St. Nicholas
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You're standing at the Church of St Nicholas in Demre, the site of the ancient city of Myra. Take a look down. The church sits well below street level. Blame the river Myros. In the thirteenth century it changed course and buried the church under metres of silt. The locals built walls, but every year more mud arrived. In the end they gave up and left.
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