Caption

Traditional houses decorated with the famous geometric scratch patterns in the medieval mastic village of Pyrgi on the island of Chios, Greece, Europe

Date

Oct 04, 2018

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Constantinos Iliopoulos

Reference

BRK25G45_481

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Royalty free

Available size

63,1Mb (4,7Mb) / 19,2in x 12,8in / 5764 x 3828 (300dpi)

Keywords

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