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– The caldera has always been a stage for grand performances: the sunsets that turn the sky into liquid copper, the whitewashed cliffs clinging to the edge of a submerged volcano, and the silent, starry nights that hide secrets deeper than the crater itself.

By Eleni Vardakou Special to Aegean Chronicles Douvli Apoplanisi Stin Santorini.rar

“It’s the light,” he told a bartender in Imerovigli one evening. “It lies. It makes everything look eternal, even the things that are about to break.” – The caldera has always been a stage

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He rented a motorcycle and drove the winding roads from Akrotiri to the lighthouse. He dove into the hot springs near Palia Kameni, where the sulfur-warmed water felt like a baptism. He fell in love with the silence of the volcano.

“The island won,” he says, wiping a wine glass. “It always does. You don’t seduce Santorini. It seduces you. And sometimes, it does it twice just to make sure you’re ruined.”

But the island seduced him first.