Old town Alonnisos Island Greece
In 1965 a devastating earthquake struck the Sporades. One of the biggest casualties was the main town, or Chora, of Alonissos. The inhabitants had little option but to leave their homes behind and move down to the coast, a few kilometres away, where a new town and port, Patitiri, was under construction.
Old Alonissos Town lay abandoned until the 1980s, when, little by little, foreign tourists enamoured with the island began to buy up and renovate houses there. Soon the town was full of life again, reborn as a multinational melting pot, with Germans, English, Greeks and other nationalities living side by side in their adopted Mediterranean paradise.
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