Qualla: Serifos https://qualla.com/serifos en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/7/serifos-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Serifos https://qualla.com/serifos Serifos: Introduction https://qualla.com/serifos/ Photo credit C messier, CC BY-SA 3.0. The myth goes like this: Perseus came home to Serifos carrying the severed head of Medusa, whose gaze turned living things to stone. King Polydectes had sent him on the quest, hoping the boy would die — because the king wanted Perseus's mother, Danaë, for himself. Perseus survived. He walked into the king's hall, told Polydectes to look, and turned him to stone. Serifos has been home to more iron than mythology, but the myth is the one that stuck: this is the island where the hero came back, and where justice, for once, arrived from an unlikely direction.

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]]> Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/7/serifos-wk/sw97-serifos-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Serifos: Iron in the Bones of the Island https://qualla.com/serifos/ Photo credit NNeilAlieNN, CC BY-SA 3.0. Copper and other minerals have been mined on Serifos since Minoan times, but it was iron that defined the island in the modern era. Ore extraction continued well into the 20th century, stopping only in the 1960s. The evidence is still visible across the hillsides: straight roads ...

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]]> Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/7/serifos-wk/sw97-serifos-iron-in-the-bones-of-the-island.mp3 0:06 2 full Serifos: Two Towns, One Island https://qualla.com/serifos/ Photo credit C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0. Serifos divides neatly between its harbor and its heights. The port, Livadi, is where ferries arrive and where most visitors stay: accommodation lines the waterfront, boats bob in the bay, and the business of arrivals and departures plays out daily throughout the summer season. I...

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]]> Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/7/serifos-wk/sw97-serifos-two-towns-one-island.mp3 0:06 3 full Serifos: Perseus's Island https://qualla.com/serifos/ Photo credit Antonio D Amico, CC BY-SA 3.0. Myth is a kind of geography. The stories the ancient Greeks told about Serifos — about Danaë and her infant son Perseus washing ashore here in a chest, about King Polydectes and the gorgon's head and the stone that was once a king — gave the island an identity that outlasted its ...

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]]> Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/7/serifos-wk/sw97-serifos-perseuss-island.mp3 0:06 4 full Serifos: The Sherry Wine and the Beach https://qualla.com/serifos/ Photo credit G-Lignum, CC0. Serifos has practical pleasures alongside its mythological ones. The beach at Livadakia, a short walk from the port by a path across the little Poundi peninsula, is excellent — better than the town beach in Livadi itself. At Livadakia there is a campsite, a swimming pool, and the...

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