Alegre Eskaloni
We make plans not dreams!
Alegre Eskaloni, the dynamic Head of the Municipal Library of Paros tells us about the various library activities and discloses her immediate goals.
Angelika Vaxevanidou
It's all hard work
The portrait has always appeared to me as a landscape through which I can wander and explore. The pencil backgrounds are extensions to this landscape and allow me to wander further.
The palimpsest of the Nymph’ quarry at Marathi, Paros
In the years preceding the outbreak of the Greek Revolution, travellers, philhellenes and archaeologists travelling to Paros were aware of the adits at Marathi. The artificial labyrinthine cave system, fascinated foreign travellers as they immersed themselves in the marble riverbed that had once given life to statues of gods and humans.
The coats of arms of Paros
Usually through books, narrations and visits to museums or archaeological sites. Nevertheless, there are also other sources that we rarely make much of, although they hide significant riches. At Paros, two such sources are the family names and the coats of arms of the old noble families.
Meeting with the god Bacchus
The cause. This year’s souma distillation. The occasion. My friend’s invitation to the party accompanying the production process, naturally, as every year. A customary symbolic event. The whole thing refers to rites and rituals. It revives again and again, aiming at the magic power of a circular and infinite repetition. Very similar to the one defining the rules of life.
Van Gogh in Lefkes
Van Gogh climbed up to Lefkes this year; Frida Kahlo, Picasso, Magritte, Tsarouchis and other great painters went along. They went to Marpissa, as well. Αnd the pupils of the elementary school got to know them under the guidance of their teachers Chryssa and Areti Katsantoni.
The little “diamond” of Naousa
Anyone interested in having a close look at the designs of the coats of arms of Paros should visit the Historical and Folklore Museum of Naoussa, in a small building at the village square.
Delion
North of Parikia, on a hill with an amazing view, lie the ruins of the sanctuary of Delian Apollo and Artemis. In its initial form, the sanctuary was quite simple consisting basically of an enclosure wall around a rock and the altar for the sacrifices. From this plateau the faithful could see the sacred island of Delos waiting for the signal to start here too, the religious ceremonies in honour of Apollo.
Agios Antonios and the medieval castle of Kefalos in Paros
One of the most striking features of the eastern coast of Paros is the hill of Kefalos with the monastery of Agios Antonios on its summit. Kefalos and his lower twin, Antikefalos, oversee the straits between Paros and Naxos while the white-washed monastery on the summit invites the visitor to climb up the hill.
ODES for the lugger “Athina”
A Parian by choice, with a life strongly attached to the sea, the architect Kostas Gouzelis tells us that the dream, freedom, love, the realization of his existence in the universe, “pure like limpid fountain water” came in his adolescent years and rested on a wooden sailing boat, indelibly putting their mark on his route.