Place - History of Ikaria

Ikaria, mythical island, with beautiful nature, beaches with crystal clear waters, with proud and idiosyncratic inhabitants, with glorious history, with left past and present, with the famous from antiquity Pramneio Wine, is one of the destinations ideal for visitors of alternative tourism . It is of course the biggest attraction of the island the Ikariotes and their philosophical daily life that alienates the people of cities.

So if you ask an Ikarian "if he has time", his possible answers will be from "why, do you take antibiotics?" until the "no, now I have come", while its Manifesto Ikarian philosophy is concentrated in: "After we have a good time with what we have, why kill ourselves to get more?", where the Ikariotes clearly give the answer to what the whole western consumer world is tormented and can not find the medical.

The island whole mountains, without any plain and few crops was the wronged in relation to the four of its neighborhood (Lesvos, Chios, Samos, Ikaria) and historically becomes a privileged place of exile from the time of the Byzantines. But poverty also had its benefits. In Ikaria there were no landowners or landless people. Everyone had their land. For this reason there were no workers to work as hoteliers. When someone needed labor, either for a project e.g. to build his house, to repair an accident, or to hastily gather some fruit, he turned to the help of the neighbors who were willing to help, and they in turn, when the need arose, asked accordingly. This mutual support "the abyss or change" as they say in Ikaria was one of the social institutions that have existed since ancient times.

The logic of solidarity It has been practiced since 1960 - the period of great poverty - and at their festivals as they turn them from simple coenobitic festivities that were once, into a means of financing, where visitors pay to raise money for public works.

Since then Ikarian festivals are massive, take off and are rightly considered the most exciting in Greece!