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O Fournos tou Veloni (Velonis Bakery)

The wood-fired bakery of Velonis in Naxos

Velonis Bakery (O Fournos tou Veloni) in the Chora of Naxos gives a courageous battle against developing trends and is one of those few bakeries left still making bread, delighting locals and travelers with the splendid smell of freshly baked bread spreading all around the neighborhood.

Wood-fired bakeries are becoming more and more scarce on the islands of the Cyclades.

Little by little, the taste of the fluffy loaf of bread is disappearing.

The people behind bread making, the bakers, are also gradually becoming extinct together with their values ​​and behavior, synonym of another era.

Daily interaction with customers had forged a true sense of humanitarian behavior in them and made them wiser.

"The store which has been operating as a bakery since 1922 was sold to my father in 1950 against 15,000 Greek drachmas. Fire was lit with brushwood - everyone was using brushwood at the time - that was then carried into the over to heat the stones. It was in 1955 that my father turned the oven into a wood-lit one. Being a baker is no easy job; bakers turn night into day. Don't be fooled by what you see now in the summer that the restaurants are open and the tourists are here; in winter, we have difficulty winning our bread ”, says kyr Nikos Velonis (kyr, added before the name of an old man, is a way to salute or address him in a respectful way, informal word).

This is no fancy bakery. A simple room, no unnecessary decoration, two windows bathed in daylight that give to the East and one long wooden counter full of all kinds of breads, loafs and bread rolls.

This is such a busy bakery? people come in and go all day, day and night, others because they really need something to buy and others because they simply followed the irresistible aromas of the bakery.

Old professionals often complain that their children are most of the times reluctant to follow the profession of their parents. Kyr Nikos is lucky enough to have such a polite son with a strong moral sense who is ready to pick up the torch and keep the bakery operating in its current form. We wish him the best of luck. May God permit his father to be his companion for as long as humanly possible since kyr Nikos still has quite a few tricks to share with him.

  • Veloni Bakery, Naxos
  • Veloni Bakery, Naxos
  • Veloni Bakery, Naxos
  • Veloni Bakery, Naxos
  • Veloni Bakery, Naxos
  • Veloni Bakery, Naxos
  • Veloni Bakery, Naxos
  • Veloni Bakery, Naxos
  • Veloni Bakery, Naxos

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    Chora, Naxos
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    Naxos

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O Fournos tou Veloni (Velonis Bakery)
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