Nature in Greece | Mountains, lakes, forests, fauna and flora
A photographic journey into the lives of the Jews of Ioannina of the past century
Nissim Levis, a member of an affluent Jewish family in Ioannina, killed in the Holocaust, captured the lives of the Jews in Ioannina city in Epirus in 500 images. The photographs are in the form of glass photographic plates, and were passed down in…
Skaros, a traditional Greek folklore song from Epirus that is a hymn to nature
The song “Skaros” is one the few examples in Greek folklore music where through mimicking the sounds of nature, the “soul” of the Epirotic pastoral landscape is condensed and reconstituted through this unique and exemplary music. What “Skaros” song describes so eloquently and emotionally is…
The art of stonemasonry in another dimension
ABOUT THE ARTIST Andreas Tefos was born in a family of stonemasons in Konitsa, a border town of northern Greece, that is renowned throughout the country for it’s masons. He worked every summer since he was 13 along with his father and fellow stonemasons and…
