Megalochori

This guide to Megalochori in Santorini centers on the ritual of dressing a giant wooden cross in rosemary and greenery for Lazarus Saturday, and the women baking dough figures called lazarakia with their arms crossed like the icons of Lazarus. It also walks the village's crooked, deliberately confusing lanes and the wine cellars cut into volcanic rock beneath them, built to disorient pirate raiders and shelter families when a sail was spotted offshore. Unmarried young women of the village traditionally tie the branches onto the cross, sprig by sprig.