Kea Island, Cyclades: Land terracing
Posted on Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
To cultivate the sloped land of many of the Aegean islands, terracing has been used since ancient times. The abandonment of the traditional agricultural practices has led to the arrest of maintenance of the terraces and of their retaining dry-stone walls. The result has been slow erosion, which still maintains a characteristic landscape element. This is now disappearing as the land is being sold for resort houses and the resulting construction and landscaping totally eliminates even the last traces of terracing.
