Ναυτικό Μουσείο Σαντορίνης

About this audio guide

This guide to the Naval Museum of Santorini opens with a question: why does this captain's mansion still stand in Oia's Captains' District, when almost none of its neighbors do? It follows the rise and fall of a village that once anchored around one hundred thirty merchant ships, from the shift to steam engines that drained the shipping trade toward Piraeus, to the 1956 earthquake that flattened over five hundred houses across the island. Look at the anchors and carved figureheads on the ground floor as you listen, each one salvaged from a house that didn't survive.