City and Landscape Stock Photos

Ding-dong, ding-dong. That was the sound of the mules in Oia on Santorini in February 2017. It was the complete off season, and many houses and streets were in the middle of repairs. Every mule had a bell and carried sacks, likely with concrete. Hotels, cafés and shops were closed. My wife and I came just for photos, and we expected no crowds. The sunrises were empty. Well, almost empty: one dog without an owner started to follow us. He usually came with us to the sunrise and sunset shoots, and he kept coming back a couple of times a day. One morning we found him asleep on the sofa at the entrance of our house...

Athens is one of those places — maybe it is the only place — that makes a modern traveler feel that the past is infinitely more interesting than the present. It’s an incredible city — maybe the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. There are olive trees here that are older than many countries. Walking along its streets, it seems that every bend reveals another monument to the human desire to create...