Recalling Santorini - Part II (Houses and Temples)

Oia (northmost point of the island) is wonderful in terms of landscape and sunset (Above pic was taken by my colleague). It is considered to be one of the renowned picturesque places of the world. I have posted some pis here.

The small houses, carved into the rock, the mansions with their stairways and
their neoclassical architecture, with white and ochra as their dominant colors,
the walls decorated with small stones, the roads paved with flagstones, and the
flowers, form a harmonious total of the impressive picture of the Oia village.

The houses in Santorini are typical in architectures as it is not made up of concretes and cements; kind of mud is used for cementing the walls. The reason being a dormant volcano is situated close to the island, which can erupt anytime. I was reading in one of the books that tells..

“Excavations have shown that the island was inhabited in prehistoric times, during the cyclic period (3200 – 2000BC) …. The island reached its apogee during the ensuing period (2000-1550BC), which was cut short by the eruptions of the volcano in 1500BC.”

I have posted some pictures of traditional orthodox Temples in this post. The picture below of a temple, is taken in front of a film studio. Santorini is famous for film shooting and “Chalte Chalte” one of the famous bollywhood movies was shot here. So Greece is now quite interesting place for Indians :-)

The fascinating view of the houses in the cliff hypnotized me in first glance.

Old Houses in Greek Island

I have been to many Greek Islands and each of them is unique. Usually I spent some time to see the normal life there, specially the houses, small lanes and people. These are some house in Aegina and Poros.

These two pictures had taken randomly in Aegina by normal camera, not very special to me. But still I have posted to feel how the houses are. But the main reason is to feel how special the third one to me. It may be simple but this neoclassical house in Poros Island is taken by my Canon 350D. I avoided the distractions on the ground floor and only captured the main object. The original version is here.

This one is my 50th post in this blog.

Though intotal I completed century week back.