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Apeiranthos

Cafe Apeiranthos

Η Apeiranthos is a village in the mountainous east Naxos. It is located 28 km NE of the island's capital, at an altitude of 650 meters and is one of the most beautiful villages of the Cyclades.

Place of shepherds and farmers, workers in the emery mines, but also poets, people of letters, art, politics, of Aperathos as the locals proudly say, he is proud of the beauty of his settlement, of the Aperathitic idiom that preserves ancient Greek and Byzantine elements, of his events such as the Bells of Halloween, and especially of the Aperathitic song.

The ability of men and women to "speak" with lyrics is well known - Aperathou is "the village that lyricizes" -, as the song says:

"With little ones I show the pain of my love".

The cafe Apeiranthos of M. Glezou and G. Polykreti It 's in the Plate, the central square, which is a place of endless political discussions. Michalis Glezos is one of the two coffee makers cousin of Manolis Glezos, the man who in the Occupation together with the Apostle Santa, lowered the German flag with the swastika from the Acropolis. The two coffee makers change the management of the cafe every year.

Mr. Michalis, 85 years old, who has never traveled outside Naxos, recalls the old days and narrates:

"Apeiranthos was a rich place, it had livestock, crops and emery. When Naxos was with the lamps, we had electricity.

On Sundays you would see in the cafe over eighty old men in shorts drinking their coffee. But young people also came in the afternoons to play their cards.

I had the notebook then and I wrote down what they got and at the end of the month, when they were paid by the emery company, they came to pay. Then everyone had their oil, their bread, their potatoes, their animals, all the food was ours. Most are now purchased. In addition, young people do not want to get their hands dirty with earthworks ".

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