Polis Suite Πολυτελή διαμέρισμα στην Ερμούπολη της Σύρου

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Polis Suite Πολυτελή διαμέρισμα στην Ερμούπολη της Σύρου

My Sweetest… Syra

It is impossible to have visited Syra and not have tasted its traditional delight product, which is inextricably and interconnectedly linked with the beginning of Ermoupolis and its unique course in time, the famous and world-renowned Syrian Loukoumi.In itslong journey, it traveled through places and times to reach Syra among all those things that the…

Carnival in Old Syra – The custom of Zemibekia

The common people in Syra was having lot of fun with the custom of Zemibekia…  From Markos Vamvakaris (the most popular musician rabbet born in Syra) autobiography we learn the following: Only me from all my family I was dancing with the group of the zeibekia. I do not know if now they still perform…

Syra, the noble lady of gastronomy

  Syra…a place full of surprises and aromas…A small island on the Aegean’s Sea, endowed with sun and salt, with honey and thyme, with cloves and jasmine… And why not, since centuries now, especially after the Greek Revolution with the arrival of Greek refugees from the eastern islands, Syra was fortunate to become a very…

Carnival in Old Syra – Α  magical time travel.

At the mere hearing of the name of Syra, many people think of the taste and aroma of her traditional sweets, the well-known ones “loucoum delights”.
To others who have known her more, Syra comes to their minds as the First Commercial Port and the first Industrial Center of Free Greece and to others, who meet her for the first time in front of them, is none other than the first stop, the first port where the ship arrives at the route to reach Mykonos

Polis Suite Πολυτελή διαμέρισμα στην Ερμούπολη της Σύρου

HERMOUPOLIS: The city of Hermes

Who was Hermes? Hermes was the   messenger of the gods of Greek mythology. He was also the transmitter of souls, the one who lead the souls of the dead to Hades  (as we learn in the  Odyssey ), but he was also the patron of Thieves, Games of chance and Commerce. According to the…

Η Ακρόπολη στο Καστρί  στην Χαλανδριανή της  Σύρου

Polis… Then and now

If we do a search to find the roots of the term Polis, which makes part of many other words, not only in the Greek language but also in other western languages, we find that they start way back in the centuries. In addition, we learn that the term Polis “City” does not have a…