Makronissos

Abstract

Desert island dependent on Kea (Tzia). Political prison until the collapse of the colonels' dictatorship in 1974. Mikis Theodorakis, composer of ´Zorba the Greek´, has been detained and tortured there. Protected as historical site (no visits).

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