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discover|the mykonians

a liviNg legacy
This is not a museum but a fully functional home. A traditional chapel, fresh handmade pie, cool whitewashed interiors...
Rizes captures the spirit of Mykonos.

NIkOS ZOUGANElIS

Rizes Folklore Farmstead

“WHAt Visitors see is our life, lived as close as possible nothing is “frozen in time” because nothing is for show and
to my memories of older generations”, says nikos Zouganelis, everything is tended to following traditional methods. you
who grew up in a traditional Mykonos farmstead. His father, can also see folklore artists working the loom, painting icons,
giannis, kept sheep and cultivated the land while his mother creating traditional “tsampouna” bagpipes… When you visit,
tended to the household and made cheese. nikos felt an you are a guest. “We want to show visitors they are loved
urge to honor this authentic way of life by creating a fully and tended to; to treat them, make friends with them – then,
functional farmstead that taps into the “rizes” [roots] of the if they want, they can participate in this life, and understand
land and traditional folk life. rizes Folklore Farmstead was how things were before technology”, explains nikos. And
the result. “We are no business. We are a home – expanded to indeed, you can help milk a cow, gather eggs, join him at the
welcome visitors, but still a home”. Visiting rizes, you start to garden patch… More than anything, though, this family want
understand this way of life, with the wood oven, cheese dairy, you to join them at the table, breaking bread and living a purer liviNg off The laNd
cows, chicken coop, wine press, vegetable patches, donkeys… life for a few hours. www.rizesmykonos.com "We are no business. We are a home", says Nikos Zougalenis about Rizes Folklore Farmstead, and it's a Mykonos home open to all.

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