CULTURE

Phaistos Disk

Phaistos Disk. The messenger of the forgotten world

I saw the place where it was found. On the outskirts of the palace, right next to the northern, outer wall, in a completely inconspicuous place, neither now, nor probably 3,700 years ago. Yet it has become one of the most enigmatic objects ever found…

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Zvara

Zvara. About music, dance, Zagori Races and cosmic religion of Greece

In the heart of the Pindos Mountains, in the small village of Tsepelovo, every year in July, Zagori Mountain Running competitions are organized. There are four distances to choose from, but the start of each of them is somewhat similar: a crowd of runners…

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Glistrokoumaria

Glistrokoumaria - Greek Strawberry Tree

For the first time I saw it on the road from Litochoro to the Stavros Refuge: Glistrokoumaria – Greek Strawberry Tree. Branches fancifully twisted, color difficult to determine, and above all this skin (because it is not bark) – smooth as velvet, covered as if with a soft fluff, once a little greener, more often turning into pink, red and burgundy.

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Vergina

Vergina Experience - The Royal Tombs in darkness

At the beginning you have to choose a place on the map: Metsovo, Tempi Valley or Vergina. It cannot be too close, the journey must wean you from everyday life, prepare you for what is new and unexpected.

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Cicada

Secret Life of Cicada. In Litochoro and elsewhere

It was in the middle of hot summer, the peak of the holiday season. I stood in front of the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion in Crete, among the crowd of tourists. I was delighted by amazing sun of July, the lush nature on the square around and the aesthetic madness of the interior of King Minos’s palace that was about to follow soon.

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Seal of Pylos

Seal Of Pylos.
Forgotten Masterpiece

It is May 2015. The Archaeological site of Nestor’s Palace in the southwestern Peloponnese, 15 km from the modern town of Pylos on the shores of the Gulf of Navarino. The rocky island of Sfakteria and several smaller ones, the site of naval battles one from the Peloponnesian War in the 5th century BC…

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Kalderimi - an ancient road in Crete

In Crete there were many thousands of kilometers of stone roads. Across Greece, even more: in the Pindos Mountains, on the Pelion Peninsula, in the Peloponnese. They were widely used in the 1960s and 1970s. They are still used in some regions, although usually in a slightly different way. I have cross them many times myself, whether during running competitions or hiking in the mountains.

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Secret of Magnetic Inscription

One time I bought myself a fridge magnet. Such a small, plaster, pressed with the stamp – a traditional souvenir from holiday travels. There are no sea, no windmills or a Greek donkey on it. There is Socrates and his most famous formula: “I know that I know nothing.”

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Chariots of Fire

Chariots of Fire Vangelis' Music And a Joy of Running

In 1982, the Academy Award for Best Original Music went to Vangelis Papathanassiou – a famous Greek composer, one of the greatest creators of film music in history – for the soundtrack to the film Chariots of Fire directed by Hugh Hudson. Everyone knows the title song from this film…

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