Galaxidi (Greece)

Galaxidi Museum

Galaxidi’s destiny has always been associated with the sea, an eternal invitation for voyages and adventure. Water ways and verbal stories lead us to the local Museum where exhibits and history intertwine with memories of the past. The story that the sea narrates begins in prehistory with the shipwrecks that testify travel to distant lands and the seafaring of its people. The “Chronicle of Galaxidi” takes us to the Byzantine and Ottoman periods with fascinating tales and recounts natural disasters and pirate attacks when life was disrupted and the inhabitants had to find refuge in the nearby islands. Galaxidians during the Ottoman rule managed to develop a significant commercial naval fleet which helped the revolution for independence, but the town and ships were destroyed in revenge.

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