Around the World

Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 15 Ios has two reputations. Only one of them is correct. Both of them are true. There is a hilltop on the northern end of Ios Above a valley called Plakotos, where a low stone mound sits in the dry grass with a view across […]

Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 14 Paros is the island tourists pass through on their way to somewhere else. They are leaving the quarry of the ancient world. Paros became the sculptor’s island The marble that came out of Paros was not the same material as the marble that came

Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 13 Naxos isn’t the island tourists pick first. That’s exactly why it still feels like this. Naxos invented the habit of carving teh stone The Parthenon is made of Pentelic marble from a mountain outside Athens. That is the school answer, and it is not

Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 12 Mykonos has two faces. The party island everyone talks about. And the quiet corners nobody photographs. The thing nobody tells you about Mykonos Mykonos is not really the destination. Two miles west of Mykonos Town, across a stretch of Aegean water thin enough to

Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 11 Meteora. Monks built these monasteries on top of stone pillars six hundred years ago. No roads. No stairs. Just ropes and faith. The word meteora, in Greek, means suspended in the air. This is literal, not metaphorical. Above the small town of Kalabaka in

Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 10 Athens doesn’t start at the Acropolis. It starts in the backstreets of Plaka — where the alleys are older than most countries. There is a neighbourhood in Athens called Plaka Nobody can tell you exactly when it was founded, because founded is the wrong

Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 9 Dubrovnik’s city walls are over 600 years old. Two kilometres of stone, built to protect a republic that lasted longer than most empires. But the best part isn’t the view from the top. It’s getting lost in the streets below. Ragusa — the old

Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 8 Vis was a military island until 1989. No tourists for fifty years. That’s why it still looks like this. Vis is the farthest inhabited island from the Croatian mainland It takes two and a half hours by ferry from Split, across a stretch of

Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 7 Šibenik’s cathedral took 105 years to build. Every stone carved by hand. No brick, no wood — the only cathedral in Europe made entirely of stone. Šibenik — Medieval Stone, Tesla’s Electricity The stone that built the Cathedral of St. James was quarried from

Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 6 In Dalmatia, they say a fish should travel three times in its life. From the sea to the net. From the net to the fire. From the fire to your plate. Never further. There is a word in Dalmatia — pomalo Pomalo roughly translates