The House That Holds the Stories of a Village in Samos

The House That Holds the Stories of a Village in Samos

In 1924, Haralambos Velonis, a 30-year-old vine-grower, settled in the mountain village of Manolates in northern Samos after marrying native girl Maroudio Kondyli. They moved right into a late Nineteenth-century home bought by her father, as a part of her dowry. The...
Stories Told by the Stones of Crete

Stories Told by the Stones of Crete

“This little figurine of the musician, regardless of its small measurement, radiates unbelievable energy,” archaeologist Eirini Galli whispers to me as we stand earlier than a show case behind the momentary exhibitions corridor at the Heraklion Archaeological Museum....
Stories from the Acropolis Front

Stories from the Acropolis Front

It’s 9:30 within the morning and I’m striding purposefully up the cobbled pedestrian road of Dionissou Areopagitou, amidst a crowd of enthusiastic, chatty vacationers. We move the fashionable architectural marvel of the Acropolis Museum to our left, house to...
A Sea of Stories: Preserving Cycladic Maritime Culture

A Sea of Stories: Preserving Cycladic Maritime Culture

Manolis Zisimopoulos from Paros, remembers taking journeys on kaikia (conventional picket boats) from the age of seven, recalling the times when his grandfather and father transported barley for the manufacturing of beer to Athens. Captain Kostas Prasinos on the...