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Monthly Culture Magazine
Issue 36
MAY 1999
Author: Elli Boubouri

CHIOS OF OLD TIMES – ROOM WITH A VIEW

An area of 17 acres, a farmhouse of 1640, flower gardens, fruit trees, water-lined cisterns … When you close the heavy door of the Perleas estate in Chios, you go to another dimension …

Everywhere the eyes are rejoicing. Everywhere orange trees, lemon trees, chian mandarin trees, olive trees, flower gardens. Then the smell becomes the dominant sense. You have never met such smells again. This is enchanting …