5604 x 3752 px | 47,4 x 31,8 cm | 18,7 x 12,5 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
14 giugno 2009
Ubicazione:
Mandrakia village, Milos island, Cyclades, Greece, Europe
Altre informazioni:
Mandrakia is one of the most picturesque seaside settlements with "syrmata" (that's how locals call these tiny little summer houses) in Milos. The settlements with "syrmata" is one of the most beautiful characteristics of this unique island. Other tiny villages with this typical style of Lilliput houses are, Klima, Fyropotamos, Fourkovouni, Areti, Aghios Konstantinos and Mytakas. What amazes me in this type of villages, besides the beauty of simplicity, is the strong feeling of community, the warm bonds between the members of these villages, and their tight connection with the sea. But why "syrmata"? They are called like this because they have a special mechanism to "syroun" (=draw) the boats inside during winter. Sometimes they have two floors (each floor never bigger than 20-25 square meters, and some other times only one floor "built" inside a cave. During summer the inhabitants of the inland, put their boats in the sea and use "syrmata" as summer "villas". Only the absolutely necessary (a bed, a table, two chairs and a small kitchen) fit in there. I like to call them the "apotheosis of minimalism".
