Durable and selective, leafy but “tricky,” and full of nutrients, the caper is a tender, self-sowing perennial shrub, fast-growing both in length and in width, especially during the summer months. With shallow surface roots and a piquant edible flower bud, it’s an exquisite island-grown delicacy used in salads and an array of recipes.
The bread of a place carries the memories of its history. It encapsulates the anxiety for survival of an entire people, the toil of the farmers, the love and the care to provide food for your own…. A kneading trough and the strong hands of a rural woman kneading bread is the shortest story of the poor pre-tourist Cyclades. The bread is love, survival, heritage, life. The first ingredient of our life.
Hidden inland, absolutely autonomous place designed by the owner-architect. Comfort and simplicity form one inseparable unity. Creative and imaginative use of traditional elements, minimum intervention in the natural environment and the residents’ aesthetics comprise the character of the place.
Picturesque Aegean fishing village that gains the visitor right away with its beauty. A clump of tamarisks make shade on the small but windless beach of the village. Shops, fish and other taverns at your disposal all day long.
Alyki, salt pond in Greek, welcomes its visitors, offering Cycladic hospitality and really serene vacations.
Another success story makes us feel optimistic and have confidence in the island’s young generation. Nikos Pavlakis and his partner Marinos Alexandrou created the 56isles, the first Parian beer which, though barely known, won a prize from the Great Taste Awards...
Life on a small island like Antiparos has an unrivalled allure. Who can deny, however, that it also hides difficulties, restrictions or loneliness as well? The general practitioner of Antiparos for the past 14 years, Sotiris Skourtis answers our questions and analyses his relationship with this irresistible island.
Archaeologist Dora Katsonopoulou got to know and love Paros thanks to Skopas. As President of the Paros and Cyclades Institute of Archaeology, she has done something very important: almost every year she invites here outstanding archaeologists and other scientists from Greece and abroad. The proceedings of these International Conferences - in excellently edited publications- make up an intellectual treasury, an invaluable source of information for the students of the island’s history.
She puts on Sartre, Genet and Camus, in packed halls. The notary Moschoula Kontostavlou always makes “difficult” play choices and the Parian spectators always ardently support them.
Nastassja is a generous woman. Every year, she comes to Paros from Paris not on holidays but to do volunteer work as vet assistant at the Vet Centre of the Paros Animal Welfare, thus linking the Island with the French Organizations of Animal Friends. On top of that, she “fell in love with” a cat at Naoussa.
