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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
The sunken Kallio village

The sunken Kallio village

Mornos lake, Lidoriki, Fokida / Central Greece

July 28th, 2020
On New Year's day 1980, the villagers of Kallio, dressed heavily for the bitter cold coming down to their plateau from the snowy Vardousia and Giona mountains around them, were standing at their porches, seeing the large plain around them swiftly and steadily getting filled wi...
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A poet over troubled waters

A poet over troubled waters

The turbulent history of contemporary Greece erupted in the life of poet Giannis Ritsos like the ...

July 15th, 2020
"This landscape is as hard as silence, it squeezes its burning stones at its shoulders, it squeezes its orphaned olives and vines in the light, it grits its teeth. There is no water. Only light. The road disappears in the light and the shadow of the stone wall is like iron. Th...
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The monk’s bridge

The monk’s bridge

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

November 18th, 2020
Perched in the Pindos mountain range, the region of Epirus in western Greece is wild and rocky, inaccessible and rough, with steep ravines crossed in their depths by inflated rivers - and, thus, with dozens of stone bridges which lay scattered after almost every corner, built ...
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Gramvousa shipwreck

Gramvousa shipwreck

Imeri Gramvousa island, Kissamos, Chania / Northwestern Crete

September 15th, 2020
For more than half a century a rusty carcass of a ship that is rapidly disintegrating has achieved a strange and unexpected match with the exotic landscape of the Gramvousa islands, at the northwestern tip of Crete, as it lies since 1968 between the wild and barren land of the...
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Zakynthos: A Jewish shelter from the Nazi storm

Zakynthos: A Jewish shelter from the Nazi storm

In the face of the abominable Nazi death machine during WW2, the Greeks of Zakynthos provided she...

August 26th, 2020
Within a few weeks of the relegation of Zakynthos island from the Italian to the German Occupation zone, in September 1943, the Jewish quarter of the city was transformed to a ghost neighborhood with locked doors and lowered shutters.After the German WW2 invasion in Greece in ...
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Monastery of Kipina

Monastery of Kipina

Kalarrytes village, Northern Tzoumerka region, Ioannina Prefecture, Epirus / Western Greece

January 7th, 2021
The Monastery of Kipina, hooked on a vertical rock of the western slopes of the Pindos mountain range for at least 350 years, steep and isolated, was more than a Byzantine sanctuary for the Virgin Mary. Within its rocks and stone walls, the serenity of prayer often alternated ...
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Heraklion Hotel

Heraklion Hotel

Aidipsos, Northern Evia island ǀ Central Greece

June 12th, 2020
Standing abandoned with its burgundy cloth on the hill that overlooks Aidipsos, in the North of Evia island, the "Heraklion" Hotel is the bitter reminder of the bygone glory days for this small and remote coastal spa town of central Greece.Eighty thermal springs gush from a de...
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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 38 others