Aliveri

Industrial landscape in Aliveri

21 May 2012,   St Constantine’s Day, I am sailing to Eretria on Evia Island. Opposite me, in the sky above the island, the South wind has brought together a series of fog clouds which are now  below the mountaintops of Evia. I am alone, standing on the deck of ‘Protoporos II’ ferry. The land is...
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Crete

Crete-from the northern winds of the Sea of Crete to the flame of the Libyan land

THE “PACHIA AMMOS” SETTLEMENT IN THE SEA OF CRETE. Early July. Watching outside the dry weeds and the all green olive trees in the fertile valley of the small rural settlement of “Pachia Ammos”, built in the Sea of Crete with the cliffs, behind which the ancient Minoan city of Gournia was built...
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Kerameikos

Kerameikos of Athens

Athens, October 1998, archaeological site of Kerameikos How the faces of all the mournful grave reliefs resemble each other! The figures are well carved in the middle of a flat Attic Stele or on the rounded surface of a marble Amphora. Here in Kerameikos’ cemetery the mortals leave among their...
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Edipsos

EDIPSOS: The Land- and Townscape of an Important Spa Town

Edipsos, June. Far away  of “Edipsos” spa-town, on the horizon the waterfront settlements of Central Greece appear: “Arkitsa,” “Agios Konstantinos” and “Kamena Vourla”. Right behind there is “Atalanti” and further behind there is “Kato Tithorea” located at the foot of “Parnassos”...
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