This is a 20th century reservoir built using local government funds, in an era when there was no water supply network on the island. The women filled up water jugs there until the 1960s. In the Spilia neighbourhood, in the picturesque village of Dryopida, there is drinking water supply. Before 1940, Dryopida locals would have […]

At the entrance of Dryopida hamlet there is a complex of fountains that once served as the central water supply point. At the western entrance to Dryopida, if you head down the hill to the left, you will come across a stream, which used to be called ‘nerofama’ (water eroded soil), and a rainwater collection