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 on the rugged rocky peninsula of Mani, the Periplus Workshops since the summer of 2023 have moved to the island of Crete. Further exploring new creative potential,  now based in a farm house amid the vast orange and olive groves of Alikianos, a small village at the outskirts of the medieval town of Chania. An area gifted with thousands of years long history of material culture and folk heritage.

The area's fascinating character is highlighted by its being on 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.

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From the summer of 2025 and for the first time, the Periplus Workshops will also infuse their creative potential

in a second location. Arcadia, a region in the central Peloponnese, carrying a remarkably long and rich history and mythology, is the home land of Hermes, emissary and messenger of the ancient gods and Pan, the god of woods, fields, and flocks. 

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Characterized by its natural grandeur and of its unique land's morphology, Arcadia was greeted by

the Renaissance Arts in Europe as an almost unattainable utopian ideal of life in harmony, within

an unspoiled natural world.​​

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But Arcadia is not just a metaphor or a poetic space, Arcadia is real and is a unique ark of the prehistoric, mythological, ancient, byzantine and modern Greek cultural presence.