Publisher's Synopsis
You want to discover the cultural treasures of the Greek islands? This is the book for you. This book is a travel story describing, through a large number of photos and detailed maps, some hiking tours in three of the culturally richest and yet not sufficiently known islands of Greece. It endeavours to cover this omission and give a glimpse of this cultural richness to the visitor who desires to discover it. Among other things, it presents the most impressive kouroi of ancient Greece, temples that are considered the precursors of the Parthenon, unique iconoclastic and other Byzantine churches that compose what is called the Mystras of the Aegean, some of the best preserved fortified medieval settlements of the Aegean, monasteries that housed schools of international fame, feudal towers, picturesque villages, artistic dovecotes, the world's largest neoclassical ensemble and a marble craftsmanship inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
