"Emmanuel A. Lignos" Santorini Folklore Museum
Cave dwelling and wine cellar hand-carved from volcanic rock, restored with period tools and workshops.
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This guide to the Lignos Folklore Museum in Kontochori, Santorini starts with a date carved above a cellar door, 1861, and explains why nothing was actually built that year in the usual sense. It follows a family who dug their home and wine cellar straight out of soft volcanic rock by hand, and why that cheap, laborious method turned out to matter far more than anyone digging it could have known. You'll also hear how the 1956 earthquake treated this excavated house very differently from Santorini's built ones, and how lawyer and historian Emmanuel Lignos later filled it with island tools.
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