Culture
Cultural expressions and ways of life, past as well as contemporary.
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Dehellenization
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret—known as Le Corbusier—once visited Greece to discover “Air, Sound, and Light,” as he described in the famous address he delivered at the Athens Polytechnic during the Fourth Congress of Modern Architecture in the summer of 1933.
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In memoriam
Eleni, our elderly neighbor in the Thessalian village, passed away last August. Known affectionately as Nitsa, she valiantly belonged to the last generation of elders, those born in the 1930s, on the eve of the Second World War.
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Greek summer in music
At the end of their lives, and after having practically forgotten everything before the great silence or else the great uproar, the people of the old nations may still retain for a short time the fragments of their music, of that which is called popular.
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May in Thessaly
May in Thessaly is, as they like to say, “ideal for sightseeing,” characterized by sunny weather for almost three weeks and mild temperatures, with averages ranging from 13 to 25°C. This, of course, is according to the usual clichés and stereotypes.
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Saint-Georges-des-Châles
April 23rd is a day when we celebrate, as it should be, Saint George’s Day. It must be said that it is a significant moment in the traditional calendar, or at least what remains of it.
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Epitaph
Good Friday. The Epitaphios has already been prepared. Christ is dead. Throughout Greece, as elsewhere in the Orthodox world, his icon, or more precisely his shroud—a large, luxuriously decorated embroidered cloth—is displayed.