Qualla: Koufonisia https://qualla.com/koufonisia en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Koufonisia https://qualla.com/koufonisia Koufonisia: Introduction https://qualla.com/koufonisia/ Tonight the moon rises over Keros, and the islanders will tell you to watch the silhouette of the deserted island across the water. Its long, low profile, they say, looks like a Cycladic figurine laid on her back, the kind of marble idol their ancestors carved five thousand years ago. The Koufonisia are a cluster of three small islands at the southeast edge of Naxos, off the Lesser East Cyclades: tiny, crowded Pano Koufonisi, almost empty Kato Koufonisi, and uninhabited Keros, which guards one of the most important archaeological secrets in the Aegean.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/4/koufonisia-wp/swd4-koufonisia-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Koufonisia: Three Islands, One Name https://qualla.com/koufonisia/ The name Koufonisia spreads across a 26-square-kilometre municipal unit, but the land itself is modest and divided. Pano, or Upper, Koufonisi is the smallest of the group at just 5.8 square kilometres, yet the most densely populated, with 391 residents at the 2021 count clustered...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/4/koufonisia-wp/swd4-koufonisia-three-islands-one-name.mp3 0:06 2 full Koufonisia: The Idols of Keros https://qualla.com/koufonisia/ Keros is uninhabited now, but it was not always so. The island is a protected archaeological site, and across the 20th century excavators drew from it a great quantity of ancient Cycladic art, the spare, abstract marble figurines whose clean lines influenced modern sculptors mill...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/4/koufonisia-wp/swd4-koufonisia-the-idols-of-keros.mp3 0:06 3 full Koufonisia: A Channel Made for Pirates https://qualla.com/koufonisia/ Through the long centuries that followed, the Koufonisia shared the fate of the wider Cyclades, ruled in turn by Venetians and Ottomans who fought over the Aegean, especially through the turbulent 17th century. In that contest the islands' geography became their living. The narro...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/4/koufonisia-wp/swd4-koufonisia-a-channel-made-for-pirates.mp3 0:06 4 full Koufonisia: Lives Built on Fish https://qualla.com/koufonisia/ For all their beauty, these were hard places to make a living. After the Second World War and the difficult years of occupation, around a thousand people lived here, but many drifted to Athens for work, and men shipped out as deckhands on boats they did not own. For a long stretc...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/4/koufonisia-wp/swd4-koufonisia-lives-built-on-fish.mp3 0:06 5 full Koufonisia: White Walls and Blue Doors https://qualla.com/koufonisia/ The look of the Koufonisia is the look of the Cyclades distilled. Houses and walls are washed white and trimmed in blue, set deliberately against the boundless blue of the Aegean so that buildings and sea seem to dissolve into one another. A traditional island home held three roo...

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