Kea island keeps its colours, stone houses and watermills

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorKea, a Greek island with about twenty-five hundred permanent residents, has kept its stone houses, vivid colours and old watermills despite growing tourism, Euronews reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTwenty-five hundred people holding the line against tourism. I'd like to see their rota.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe capital, Ioulida, sits on the slopes of two hills, Kastro and Mylos, and was made a protected traditional settlement in nineteen seventy-eight.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorProtected since seventy-eight.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd the look comes from miltos, a greyish red stone dug out of cave-like pits in one area called Otzia. One area.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHistorians say it was exported to Athens, and the colour is comparable to Knossos.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo the entire island's palette depends on a few holes in the ground. There's the weak point.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMylopotamos once had eleven watermills along the stream. They likely date to Ottoman rule and were gradually abandoned by the nineteen eighties.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorEleven mills, all stopped. Lovely heritage. Nothing in it grinds.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe mills have been closed since the eighties. Same as most of my sources.