
The view from the farm. The town of Kastro is in the distance.
Our farm sits on 6.7 acres (3
hectares) of terraced Cycladic style terrain that includes numerous other
farming structures all in stone (communal multiple oven; goat, lamb, and rabbit
shelters; a threshing circle, a reservoir that leads to a water mill, and a real
functioning chapel dedicated to St. Anthony--Agios Andonios that is), several trees (citrus, figs, olives,
mulberry, cypress), grape vines, a bamboo grove, and three sources of water.
The land overlooks a narrow terraced valley with a traditional Cycladic
dovecote, and further down wedged between two views of the sea is the perched
medieval village of Kastro.
The price was very good so we
dropped our plan to buy on the island of Naxos and decided that the 10-minute walk on the ancient
stone path to the property was not so bad after all. We just bought it last December, and some work needs to be
done (electricity, plumbing, etc.) and hopefully will be completed this year.