{"product_id":"mediterranean-wall-art-kastellorizo-dodecanese","title":"Kastellorizo Dodecanese Greece Prints","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eKastellorizo is the smallest of the Greek Dodecanese islands. Its official name Megisti means \"The Greatest\". An irony not lost on the 500 people who call it home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe name Kastellorizo is a corruption of Château-Roux, meaning \"Red Castle,\" given by the medieval Knights of Rhodes and inspired by the red volcanic rock rising above the harbor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSitting at the crossroads of Europe, Asia Minor, and Egypt, the island's natural harbor made it one of the most strategically important trading posts in the eastern Mediterranean for centuries. Its population reached 9,000 people in 1908 before war, occupation, and emigration reduced it to a fraction of that within a generation. \u003cspan class=\"inline-flex\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eKastellorizo sits just two kilometers from the Turkish coast. Ancient fortresses, wine presses, windmills, castles, mosques, and marketplaces offer traces of the powers who fought over this island through the ages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Blue Cave on the southeastern coast is considered the largest and most beautiful underwater cave in all of Greece. Formed during the Pleistocene epoch through karstic erosion of the island's limestone, it can only be entered by small boat with passengers bending flat to pass through the barely visible entrance above the waterline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe colorful neoclassical houses stacked along the harbor front above the crystal water are the island's defining image. They were built during its prosperous maritime trading era and remain the most photographed view in the eastern Dodecanese. \u003cspan class=\"inline-flex\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eDuring World War II, Kastellorizo suffered catastrophically. Allied bombing destroyed much of the harbor town in 1944. The remaining population fled to Egypt, Palestine, and Australia, leaving the island virtually abandoned for years after the war ended.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe island formally joined the Greek State in 1948 together with the other Dodecanese islands, becoming the easternmost point of Greece and of the entire European Union. It remains today the most isolated inhabited island in all of Greece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ASKEŌ","offers":[{"title":"18x24 - [45x60 cm] \/ Option 1","offer_id":46347826102444,"sku":null,"price":89.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24 - [45x60 cm] \/ Option 2","offer_id":46347826135212,"sku":null,"price":89.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12x16 - [30x40 cm] \/ Option 1","offer_id":46347826200748,"sku":null,"price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12x16 - [30x40 cm] \/ Option 2","offer_id":46347826233516,"sku":null,"price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/askeo.store\/products\/mediterranean-wall-art-kastellorizo-dodecanese","provider":"ASKEŌ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}