Akrotiri Lighthouse

This guide to the Akrotiri Lighthouse in Santorini opens with a question: how do you break years of enforced wartime silence? It traces back to eighteen ninety-two, when French engineers raised one of Greece's first lighthouses at the island's southern cape, with a keeper living alone in the cottage below to fill and light the lamp by hand each night. You'll hear how electricity reached the lamp within a year, and how sailors came to trust that steady beam like a lit window in the dark. Then the guide turns to the war that turned a lit coast into a target, and the keepers who let the flame go out.