Finikia

This guide to Finikia, the village just behind Oia in Santorini, opens with a question: why do so many knee-high wooden doors in the cliffside open onto cave cellars big enough to hold a grape harvest? It traces two centuries when Oia's sea captains grew rich shipping vinsanto wine across the Mediterranean and built clifftop mansions, while the farmers who actually pressed the grapes lived here year-round and carved their homes straight into the volcanic rock. By the early nineteen hundreds, more than one hundred fifty of those cave cellars had been cut into Finikia's rock.