Photos & text: Venia Karolidou
The hard sun, the full beaches, a lot of people, laughs at
nights. This is the idea we all have for an island. But winter comes and makes
things so different…
Kythira. The birth island of goddess Aphrodite. According to
Isiodos, after Crones cut his fathers (Sky) genitals, threw them in the sea of
Kythera It’s where from, with the help of the wind, they traveled towards Cyprus
Even in the summer, visitors aren’t so many in this island,
located opposite to the bottom of the eastern Peloponnese ’s
leg. A quite, dry place full of bushes and few trees. Small villages away from
the sea. Fear of pirates was so great that influenced the location and the
architecture of the buildings. This fear was confirmed many times, but once in
a terrible way. It was in 1537 when the awesome pirate Huredin Barbarossa after
short siege, massacred the majority of that time capital’s inhabitants (Paeohora)
and sold the rest as slaves. Today nothing reminds of this violence in the
peaceful, colored and flavored island.
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