Connecting you with seductive sides of inspiring nature and long history in a rich mediterranean scenery

Following the exciting experience of running a number of workshops inιtially on the rugged rocky peninsula of Mani, then at the outskirts of a small farming village close to the medieval town of Chania in the island of Crete, and after a period at Arcadia in central Peloponnese, a unique ark of Greek cultural presence through the ages, the Periplus Workshops since the summer of 2026 is moving to the legendary Psiloritis area in central Crete. 

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A unique rural island, where Europe's first advanced civilization thrived, succeeded by a myriad of powerful historic changes. An island with an immense agricultural potential, and with inhabitants of an exceptionally independent nature, that form a distinctive society with long-lasting rooted traditions.

Intending to further explore new creative potential together with the local communities, Periplus Workshops

is now based in Anogeia, one of the most authentic Cretan villages. Gifted with thousands of years long history of material culture and folk heritage. With its name coming from Upper Earth, the Ano Gea in Greek, it is considered by many the one place to visit for a genuine contact with the local way of life.

The area, belonging to the Psiloritis UNESCO Global Geopark, is characterized by its natural grandeur and

of its unique land's morphology. The physiognomy of the area's landscape with an extremely rich biodiversity

of gorges, caves, rocks, herbs, olive groves, sheep and goats, harsh places filled with contrasts, has nourished and characterizes the unconventional, rebellious and autonomous idiosyncrasy of its inhabitants through the centuries.

The thread of human presence here goes back to the Neolithic era and runs through Minoan, ancient,

Byzantine and modern history, expressing in an absolute and unique way the unbreakable bonds between humans and their natural environment.