History
Historical facts and gestures from Antiquity to the present day. The protagonists and the peoples.
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Ghost Greece
There are certain places we know only half as well, if not only through their ghosts of the past. Thus, in keeping with the title I chose for my 2013 book on the Greek crisis: “Ghost Greece,” one of the characteristics of my excursions exploring this beautiful country is that it remains decidedly… somewhat ghostly, in these times.
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Our pediatrician photographer
The past, of which we are otherwise the living bearers, is formed of places and nodes, consubstantial with our memory. For the historian Pierre Nora, born in 1931, these places of memory are very precisely inscribed in “his new history”, a statement which certainly forms in itself a specialist concept, which must nevertheless be admitted to be very accurate.
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Iconostases
A very typical element of the Greek road network is the iconostasis at the side of the road, which one encounters almost repeatedly, bend after bend.
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Unsubmissive Mani
Greece Otherwise is, above all, a journey through time, as well as through landscapes, even humanized spaces, those that we believe have been forgotten for some time. A Greek country… without visitors, without tourists, and sometimes even without inhabitants. As in this month of April in Mani, a region of the Peloponnese that is nevertheless very well known.
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Princess
Vassílis Tsitsánis was a great composer of Greek folk music and a bouzouki virtuoso. He was born on January 18, 1915 in Trikala and died on January 18, 1984 in London, having written more than 500 songs, whose fame extended far beyond the borders of Greece.
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Beyond the Islands
Greece, far from the islands, is often a revelation. We get rid of the clichés, we forget the crowds and sometimes… we even get away from the earthquakes and first of all from the disastrous din of mass tourism. As for example in Thessaly, my homeland, which is more in the middle of winter.