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Church of Panagia, Folegandros, Greece

Photographer: Katerina Katopis-Lykiardopulo

here is no one template for a Greek island. Some 6,000 scatter the seas off mainland Greece, and as Chrysanthos Panas’s new book, , shows, their variety is near infinite. From the medieval citadel of Rhodes to the bougainvillea-drenched villages of Corfu, to the blue domes of Santorini, each has its own flavour, history and secrets – even), where a frescoed hilltop church proves just as compelling.

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