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• A poet over troubled waters

  The turbulent history of contemporary Greece erupted in the life of poet Giannis Ritsos like the wild waves of the Myrtoon Sea smash on the rocks of his birthplace, Monemvasia.

  Location: Monemvasia, Ελλάδα

• Dylan, Morrison and the Muses

  On the occasion of Bob Dylan’s new song, ‘Mother of Muses’, we look back at the biblical moment when Dylan jammed with Van Morrison on the Hill of the Muses, on a hot summer day of 1989 in Athens.

  Location: Athens, Ελλάδα

• A Forgotten life

  The village of Mountanistika is a stone acrobat on the ridges of cape Tainaro, far on Taygetos mountain’s spine, and on the borderlines of a forgotten life.

  Location: Gerolimenas, Ελλάδα

• Gerolimenas: The pirates’ bay

  Eastern Mani region, Laconia / South Peloponnese

  Location: Gerolimenas, Ελλάδα

• Karakolithos Execution Monument

  Roadside Monument, Livadia, Viotia / Central Greece

  Location: Distomo, Ελλάδα

• Lumberjacks and tuberculosis ghosts in Campochiaro

  The two contradictory lives of the Campochiaro / Agia Eleousa ghost village of mountainous Rhodes.

  Location: Ρόδος, Ελλάδα

• Milos’ abandoned Sulfur Mine

  Thiorichia Beach, Paliorema, Milos island, Western Cyclades / Southern Aegean Sea

  Location: Μήλος, Ελλάδα

• Nikos Kazantzakis’ Aegina hermitage

  Isolated in this house, facing Athens during the years of WW2 and the German occupation of Greece, the widely acclaimed author wrote there some of his most iconic works.

  Location: Αίγινα, Ελλάδα

• Winters in Paradise

  Life at the rural reality of a Greek island, far away from the azure waters of its cosmopolitan beaches.

  Location: Lefkada, Λευκάδα, Ελλάδα

• The soldiers' ghost Sanatorium

  A four-storey abandoned stone giant in the forest of mount Mainalo, haunted by the old soldiers from the battlefields of Asia Minor and Anatolia.

  Location: Βαλτεσινίκο, Ελλάδα

• The monk’s bridge

  Kalogeriko stone bridge, Kipoi, Tymfi municipality, Zagorochoria, Epirus / Western Greece

  Location: Dilofo, Ελλάδα

• The night of the Giants: A glorious WW2 bridge sabotage

  On the night of November 25, 1942, a group of Greek partisans and British saboteurs blew up the Gorgopotamos River viaduct, in one of the first major acts of resistance in occupied Europe.

  Location: Λαμία, Ελλάδα

• The Sleeping Girl

  The life after death of young Sofia Afentaki and the death in life of the sculptor of her burial monument, Yannoulis Chalepas.

  Location: Athens, Ελλάδα

• The sunken Kallio village

  Mornos lake, Lidoriki, Fokida / Central Greece

  Location: Lidoriki, Ελλάδα