Symi Stories is an ongoing project. Send your Symi stories or photos from the past and help us develop a living history project for the island. We update the site when we have new stories and information on Symi history . To view a full post click the title.
Just to let you know that Symi Stories is back up and running (well, you can see that!). Thanks for the comments. Don’t forget that this site is only updated occasionally, if you want more regular posts about Symi and more photos, links to [...] Continue Reading…
Just in case you were trying to find Symi Dream.com - there is a problem with the servers, but we hope the site will be back up and available later today (15th July 09)
I made my first visit to Symi in 1996, thanks to a small, but welcome, unexpected sum of money and some leave from work that was screaming out to be taken. Having been to Greece once before I had decided that that was where [...] Continue Reading…
Eleftheria Spillaki was born and brought up on Symi in Horio.
Here, with permission, is an excerpt from one of Eleftherias poems, translated from Greek by the author. (Bear in mind that some words do not translate exactly, any mistakes in copying this from the [...] Continue Reading…
Near to the churches of Panagia, Agia Kara and Sotiras, which are built together on the ruins of an earlier, Byzantine church in Nimborio, it is possible to find and visit the twelve caves. These are also referred to at the catacombs and their [...] Continue Reading…
Nikitas, a relative of our neighbour, told us a story:
Symi during WWII, Nikitas was about seven years old and the island was occupied by the German forces though the situation was changing rapidly. Sometimes the Allies were here, then the Germans were back but [...] Continue Reading…
Here is a little Symi snippet which is interesting and fun.
I was talking with a neighbour, Petros, last night and he told me a story:
He was talking with his mother-in-law Anika, an elder lady who is now a great-grandmother, about having workmen in to [...] Continue Reading…
Symi is an archaeological site, a place where centuries of continuous habitation have laid down layers of history. Every time I plough my fields potsherds turn up, some of them fragments of ancient amphorae, others bits of 19th century Willow pattern from the island’s commercial heyday. A [...] Continue Reading…
When people write about the history of Symi they, quite correctly, point out that in history the island has been known for shipbuilding, sponge diving and trade. What is not so often mentioned is that, in the Byzantine period and beyond, Symi was also [...] Continue Reading…
We are grateful to Christina for writing and sending some old Symi postcards. [See the Photos page]
Christina writes:
I was on line researching Symi, and came across your website.
I stayed the summer of 1974 there, when the war broke out on Cyprus- it was [...] Continue Reading…
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