View of Alefkandra (Little Venice)
Waterfront row of captains' houses with wooden balconies suspended directly above the sea.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the view of Alefkandra, Mykonos's Little Venice, opens with the creak of a hull nudging stone beneath a merchant's floorboards sometime in the seventeen hundreds. It traces why the captains' houses lining this waterfront were built with balconies and sea doors hanging directly over the water, on a shipping route between the Ottoman east and Italian markets. You'll hear how that arrangement let cargo move from a boat's hold into a basement storeroom without ever touching a public dock, and what that privacy was worth to the merchants who lived here. Best watched at dusk, when the lit windows blur into the water below.
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