Chora, Folegandros Island, Cyclades, Greece
Chora, Folegandros Island, Cyclades, Greece (© Francesco Riccardo Iacomino/Getty Images)
Elysium on the edge
Welcome to Folegandros, one of the Greek Cyclades Islands in the Aegean Sea. This picturesque island has changed hands several times during its long history. It is thought it was once home to the Dorians, one of the four major ethnic groups of classical Greece, but it was also ruled for centuries by the Republic of Venice and later the Ottoman Empire. Greece reclaimed it in 1828.
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