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From 7h in the morning, here I am then picturesquely settled at Kato-Phira, the one of the southern quarters of the island's capital best preserved following the terrible earthquake of 1956, of which the traces remain visible everywhere, despite of the efforts made to rebuild, repair and whitewash all the terraces and houses The style of the houses, their arrangement simple and clean strongly reminds me of the villages of Cyprus, confirming the uniformity of all the islands of the Aegean, as far as the Hellenised Eastern Mediterranean The owner of the house is the tailor of Santorini. All around his house several churches or chapels. Note the survival of a Catholic minority Roman, very active, and quite surprisingly French-speaking .. (But the schools closed recently (1957)
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