Anafiotika
Whitewashed Cycladic-style hillside village of cube houses and narrow, nameless lanes tucked beneath a citadel's rock.
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This guide to Anafiotika in Athens follows two builders from the Cycladic island of Anafi, Damigos and Sigalas, who worked by night around 1840 cutting stone into the rock beneath the Acropolis while raising King Otto's new palace by day. It traces the old belief that a house built between sunset and sunrise could not be torn down, and how more island families followed once word spread. Listen for how a whole neighborhood took its name from a single tiny island, one house at a time.
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