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Sifones – das verlassene Dorf

11. September 2024

Sífones ist ein ein kleiner Ableger von Moní; es liegt in etwa 600 m Höhe in einem schönen Tal zwischen Moní und Keramotí. In den 50er Jahren wohnten in Sífones etwa 35 Menschen, aber im Lauf der 7…

Village architecture and stone houses

11. November 2023

The Cycladic villages The Cycladic villages usually consist of small houses standing close to each other in narrow alleyways. The villages of Naxos except for the settlements directly at the coast …

Mitati – the simple old stone houses

8. November 2023

Everywhere in the cultivated regions and in the areas used for grazing sheep or goats, the wanderer on Naxos will come across old small stone houses, the mitáti (singular mitátos). Farmers lived in…

The old stone houses at Karkos

7. November 2023

Walking from Apíranthos to the fortified monastery Fotodótis near Danakós, one passes a picturesque valley called Karkós, with a grove of magnificent old Vallonean oaks. Two old stone houses bear w…

Panagia Chrysopigi near Apiranthos

6. September 2010

On a ridge named Korakiá south of Apíranthos lies a tiny church called Panagía Chrysopigí. It is a unique, very unusual building. The archaeologist Georgios Mastoropoulos concludes from the smallne…

Terrassen

20. September 2008

Die Terrassen sind ein besonders auffälliges Charakteristikum der mediterranen Landschaft. Heute ist etwa 10 % der Fläche von Naxos terrassiert, ursprünglich lag der Anteil wesentlich höher. Intakt…