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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.