Cyclades 6: Amorgos
A sunny boat trip from Naxos past golden islands in the afternoon sunlight leads us to Amorgos, where we hike the next day from the town of Tholaria out to the monastery of Agios Theologos, overlooking the northeastern coastal cliffs and the sea route to Patmos, and then back to picturesque Langada for lunch.
Hozoviotissa Monastery in Amorgos
September 17, 2014
People of Amorgos
This is a project created by #authtraveljournalists, the travel
journalists of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,Greece. Thanks to Yperia International Convention of Sustainable Tourism, we were able to visit the Island of Amorgos and depict its beauty and uniqueness through the eyes of its locals. We explored the island for five
days, asking the locals one simple question.
WHAT DOES AMORGOS MEAN
TO YOU?
Cycladen, Amorgos. Het Panaghia Chozoviotissa klooster.
Panaghia Chozoviotissa is een Byzantijns klooster. Het klooster werd gesticht in 1088. Het klooster ligt op een klif aan de de noordoostzijde van Chora.
Amorgos : Secret spot sur l'Ile du grand bleu
Une eau d'une limpidité absolue, un secret spot accessible à la nage!
Grotte de fou avec voute a 7ou 9 m et fond a 17m.
En MP, a voir pour vous révéler le spot
Landscapes of Cohabitation on Antiparos Island, Greece by doxiadis+
The Aegean landscape is the synthesis of physical and cultural-historic forms and processes in a dynamic system of emergent self-organization. Complex patterns emerge from simple conditions as they overlap and influence each other. After thousands of years of existence, these beautiful landscapes now face extensive transformations, as the tourist economy is replacing that of agriculture and herding. The historic equilibrium is diverse and attractive, but also extremely fragile, sustainable only as long as the economic and cultural practices that formed it continue to operate. Seeking the new equilibria required by the changing uses, this project attempts to reverse the trend of transformation as destruction by strategizing transformation as a new synthesis, a cohabitation.
New strategies are developed to effect this new synthesis:
On the level of overall structure, the strategy developed is reading and extrapolating the site's existing elements, to create a skeleton for all new ones. From the topography, to the system of traditional stone walls and terraces (pezoules and xerolithies), to new roads, buildings and terraces, all elements progress from density at the center of the vortex to sparcity at the windy hilltops, and all elements are integrated into the skeleton. For example, while contemporary roads zig-zag down hillsides causing more destruction than the houses themselves, here they are either perpendicular to the hillside (as are the xerolithies) or parallel (as are the pezoules).
The second layer is vegetation dynamics. Given that native plants are not available in the market, that natural dynamics cannot be truly mimicked, and that end users wish for a more controlled garden close to the houses, two new strategies are developed to deal with planting:
The first strategy is pattern: the fractal-like inter-weaving patterns of existing vegetation are mimicked by planting in percentage mixes, where each area is a different percentage mix of the plants of the adjacent areas, rather than the customary way of working with groups of plants.
The second strategy is density: Closer to the houses the plants are placed at greater densities and provide for a tended garden. As distances from the house increase density diminishes, providing space for natural re-vegetation between the placed plants. Beyond a certain distance from the house no plants are placed, allowing for completely natural re-vegetation. So a gradient is formed from the tended garden to native nature, synthesizing the two into a new cohabitation.
Video: Christophoros Loupas
Music: Peter Aslanidis
Cycladen, Amorgos. Egiali. Dans op een verjaardagsfeest
Cycladen, Amorgos. Egiali. Dans op een verjaardagsfeest
Panagia Hozoviotissa 3d model
Animation in Virtual Sailor.If you like this model contact me for more details naupigos@gmail.com
(Payware,available for sale)
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The Church of Greece (Greek: Ἐκκλησία τῆς Ἑλλάδος, Ekklisía tis Elládos [ekliˈsia tis eˈlaðos]), part of the wider Greek Orthodox Church, is one of the autocephalous churches which make up the communion of Orthodox Christianity. Its canonical territory is confined to the borders of Greece prior to the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913 (Old Greece), with the rest of Greece (the New Lands, Crete, and the Dodecanese) being subject to the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. However, most of the dioceses of the Metropolises of the New Lands are de facto administered as part of the Church of Greece for practical reasons, under an agreement between the churches of Athens and Constantinople. The primate of the Church of Greece is the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.
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- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
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audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio
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The Church of Greece (Greek: Ἐκκλησία τῆς Ἑλλάδος, Ekklisía tis Elládos [ekliˈsia tis eˈlaðos]), part of the wider Greek Orthodox Church, is one of the autocephalous churches which make up the communion of Orthodox Christianity. Its canonical territory is confined to the borders of Greece prior to the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913 (Old Greece), with the rest of Greece (the New Lands, Crete, and the Dodecanese) being subject to the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. However, most of the dioceses of the Metropolises of the New Lands are de facto administered as part of the Church of Greece for practical reasons, under an agreement between the churches of Athens and Constantinople. The primate of the Church of Greece is the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.