Les îles grecques

'Since time immemorial, these bits of stone scattered about in the Aegean Sea have not ceased to be showered by manna from heaven or invaded by ill fortune surging up from hell. It is difficult to imagine that these tiny agglomerations, each one huddled on its own rock, have witnessed the entire history of Western humanity filing through their alleyways…

Autumn surrounds the islands with its finest background light. Here, eyes are above all drawn by the majesties of nature and captured by Cycladic architecture that conforms exactly to preconceived ideas.'