Folegandros Lemon Houses

Its inhabitants Folegandrou those who have houses on the brow of the cliff suffer a lot from them winds. The same goes for the orchards. To protect them they build dry stone yards.

But the most interesting construction is when they make it fort of precious lemon them, which is a two-meter-high dry stone in the shape of a circle that surrounds the tree with its precious fruits. Many times they usually make a tank next to it to collect the rainwater from the surrounding slopes and thus to water the droughts and in the summer the tree, taking out a bucket of water and cooling it every now and then.

The lemon houses of Folegandros, fortified small towers, not to protect people from pirates, but to ensure protection of fruit trees from the strong north winds of the Aegean.

How much effort and how much care for a drop of sour and a bunch of lemon juice!

The most moving building of the Aegean islands σα I met it again in the north of Amorgos, in Tholaria, but with the dried lemons!