Symi Island, Dodecanese, Greece
Its houses are with two and three storey, with courtyards, often littered with pebble floors, thematic (ships, anchors) and decoration (meander) motifs, gabled between pitched tiled roofs, balconies with iron bars, external walls plastered in ocher or more rarely stone and brown shutters without the violet shimmering doors missing. The daring diversity of houses in Symi and the liberality of color (indigo, ocher, terra cotta), calm it's rough, rigorous and imposing cliffs, leaving the aftertaste of harmony. The Lower Town (Gialos), located at the port, was developed during the 15th and 16th century, with densely built and vaulted passages, but fully formed in the 19th and early 20th century, when the later houses and the village were built.