For those who care about skoupidia. (Greece Survey)(Aegina Island)

The Economist (US) | May 22, 1993 | Copyright

IT WAS once an independent state, all 32 square miles of it; but it got on the wrong side of the local superpower, whereupon angry Athens exiled its inhabitants for daring to ally themselves with Sparta. That was in 431BC, in the Peloponnesian war. A couple of millennia or so later it was momentarily the capital of newly freed Greece, when the Greeks broke away from the Turks in the 1820s.

If you want to see a very Greek place that is neither the urban mess of contemporary Athens nor the deracinated tourist prettiness of some of the islands, go to Aegina. This is a ...

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