Desolation Road

Desolation Road

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
A Forgotten life

A Forgotten life

The village of Mountanistika is a stone acrobat on the ridges of cape Tainaro, far on Taygetos mo...

November 7th, 2019
The western side of Mani is called “shady” by the locals, but this is not the case on the ridges of cape Tainaro. At the middle leg of the Peloponnese, these are the farthest borders of Taygetos mountain and of the Balkan peninsula before the vastness of the Aegean sea and in ...
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days of stone

days of stone

Mute survival in the desolated counties of western Greece and dreams of revitalization in three o...

November 10th, 2019
When the Ganadio, Molista and Monastiri villages were blooming, up until the 1920s, houses were differing for the healthy, the middle class and the poor. While the first were living in three-storeyed Π-shaped manors with large living rooms and attics, the least fortunate ones ...
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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 55 others