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Our vision at Desolation Road is to shed light, through first-class texts and visuals, to the roadside relics, the hidden stories, the lesser-known places and the abandoned remnants of Greece's contemporary times, which lay scattered all over the country.
From the old tuberculosis clinics at the mountains, to the islets of exile or the WW2 resistance battlegrounds, the hidden stories of each place provide a deeper understanding for the culture of the modern civilization of Greece and Europe.
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Desolation Road
Viannos Massacre Memorial

Viannos Massacre Memorial

Amiras village, Viannos Municipality, Heraκlion region / Southeast Crete

September 17th, 2020
On the morning of September 14, 1943, a strange tranquility was prevailing in the mountain villages of the Viannos region, in the south of central Crete. Everything seemed peaceful in the holiness of the day that was dawning. The villagers were wearing their good clothing and ...
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Lake Plastira’s dam

Lake Plastira’s dam

Itamos, Nevropolis plateau, Agrafa region, Karditsa Province / Thessaly

August 6th, 2020
At a place called Kakavakia, where the narrow verdant gorge of Tavropos river opens up to the huge plateau of Nevropolis in Thessaly, on a sunny day of 1925 the people of the surrounding villages had prepared a table rich in roasted goat and local wine for the famous Greek Gen...
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Wilhelm Dorpfeld’s tomb

Wilhelm Dorpfeld’s tomb

Geni, Vlychos cape, Lefkada, Eptanisa / Ionian Sea

July 30th, 2020
From his burial ground, nesting in a shaded corner of the verdant Vlychos cape, the German architect and archaeologist Wilhelm Dorpfeld eternally faces the landscape that during his life he ardently claimed to be the mythical Ithaca in Homer's epic poem Odyssey.Dorpfeld’s tomb...
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The tell-tale busts at Greece’s first WW2 battlefield

The tell-tale busts at Greece’s first WW2 battlefield

The busts of lieutenant Alexandros Diakos and colonel Konstantinos Davakis tell the stories of Gr...

July 9th, 2020
Standing on the peak of Profitis Ilias, at 1,718 meters on Mount Smolikas, the busts of two officers of the Greek Army tell the tales of the first days of Greece’s glorious struggle to fight fascism, but also of the two mens’ tragic fate - in a landscape where every valley, me...
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Paos ghost village

Paos ghost village

Kalavryta region, Achaia / Northern Peloponnese

June 29th, 2020
When, in the early 1970s, the residents of the Paos village were warned to abandon it due to an unpredictable landslide, this was the final blow to the rapid transformation of their lives they experienced during the three previous decades. For a once prosperous settlement of m...
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Our vision at Desolation Road is to shed light, through first-class texts and visuals, to the roadside relics, the hidden stories, the lesser-known places and the abandoned remnants of Greece's contemporary times, which lay scattered all over the country.
From the old tuberculosis clinics at the mountains, to the islets of exile or the WW2 resistance battlegrounds, the hidden stories of each place provide a deeper understanding for the culture of the modern civilization of Greece and Europe.
With 48 others