Cats walking past two men drinking coffee, on the small island of Antikythera, When winter descends on Antikythera, the already meagre population of this small island on the edge of Greece’s Aegean Sea shrinks to almost nothing. A speck of land between the islands of Kythera and Crete, Antikythera, like many other islands and rural regions in Greece, is facing steady depopulation. When a national census was held in 2021, it tallied just 39 inhabitants, compared with 120 in 2011. — AFP
WHEN winter draws in on Antikythera, the already meagre population of the isolated Greek island shrinks to almost nothing.
“There are 20 to 25 of us, no children, no bakery,” said local leader Giorgos Harhalakis, who is fighting an uphill battle to revive the small Aegean island’s fortunes.
