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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Helena Smith in Athens

‘We’re at a tipping point’: mission to save identity of Greece’s Cyclades isles

A bright and vivid sunset in Santorini. Looking over the town of Oia from its castle.
A bright and vivid sunset in Santorini. Looking over the town of Oia from its castle. Photograph: CT Aylward/Getty Images

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, Sandra Marinopoulou got thinking about how, as president of the Museum of Cycladic Art, she could start “giving back” to the island chain after which the institution is named. She soon discovered she did not have to look far.

“As luck would have it I was stuck on an isle at the time,” she recalled. “Without the masses, with no tourism whatsoever, the landscape had returned to its natural state, both primitive and virgin.”

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