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Îles Grecques – Les Cyclades Et Athènes Îles grecques Les Cyclades et Athènes Y VOIR L’ESSENTIEL M VIVRE LE MEILLEUR Marathonas Elefsina (Éleusis) ATHÈNES Megara p.46 Rafina Karistos Pireas (Le Pirée) SALAMINA + ANDROS ATHÈNES AU QUOTIDIEN / Gavrio L’ACROPOLE / Andros MUSÉE ARCHÉOLOGIQUE NATIONAL MAKRONISSI Egina G OLFE SA RONIQ Lavrio ANGISTRI UE KEA Korissia GIAROS Methana CAP Ioulida SOUNION P Poros É LO PO N POROS NÈ Ermo SE Merichas SYROS+ Hydra DOKOS KYTHNOS M SERFOPOULA E R D SERIFOS E Livadi M Y R T ANTIPAR O Kamares Apollonia CYCLADES OCCIDENTALES +SIFNOS DESPOTIK VELOPOULA p.164 KIMOLOS FALKONERA ANTIMILOS Plaka POLIEGOS Adamas MILOS Folegandros FOLEGANDROS+Karavosta TURQUIE E OP LES CYCLADES EUR ET ATHÈNES IRA GRÈCE ASIE AFRIQUE M E R É G É Gavrio ANDROS E Andros CYCLADES SEPTENTRIONALES p.98 GIAROS +TINOS IKARIA Tinos Mykonos Ermoupoli + SYROS+ MYKONOS RINIA + DELOS LA Naxos DONOUSSA Parikia + ANTIPAROS NAXOS s KINAROS Apollonia KOUFONISSIA +SIFNOS PAROS KEROS DESPOTIKO +AMORGOS IRAKLIA Katapola Amorgos SCHINOUSSA LIEGOS SIKINOS IOS Ios Kastro Alopronia Folegandros ANUDROS ANDROS+Karavostassis ASTIPALEA CYCLADES ORIENTALES p.206 Oia FIRASSIA ANAFI Fira + Anafi SANTORIN CHRISTIANI N 25 km Îles grecques Les Cyclades et Athènes BIENVENUE DANS LES… es maisons chaulées de blanc dégringolant d’une colline, vers une mer d’un bleu aussi D intense que l’azur du ciel… Voici l’image éternelle des Cyclades, archipel aux 250 îles de toutes tailles disséminées dans la mer Égée. Chacune pourrait être une perle d’un komboloï, ce chapelet grec dont le nœud de fixation serait Athènes, la capitale, berceau culturel de l’Europe, sur laquelle veille la silhouette mythique de l’Acropole. Pourtant cette carte postale n’a rien de figé : s’y cachent une infinité de paysages, de traditions, de gastronomies… Chaque île est un continent en miniature. De Santorin la volcanique à Mykonos la festive, en passant par Delos la sacrée ou Folegandros la sauvage, un seul voyage n’y suffira pas… Qu’il soit le premier ou le énième : Kalosórisma ! (Bienvenue !) Je découvrais à différentes distances toutes les Cyclades : Delos, célèbre par la naissance de Diane et d’Apollon ; par son palmier, par ses fêtes ; Naxos, qui me rappelait Ariadne, Thésée, Bacchus […] François René de Chateaubriand 2 ÎLES GRECQUES 3 SOMMAIRE SOMMAIRE 6 Reportage 47 Athènes Le vin au vert 48 Plan 1 Athènes, plan général 50 Plan 2 Athènes, centre 52 U Les incontournables 19 Préparer 54 Nos conseils son voyage 56 Rendez- vous avec… 20 En un clin d’œil 58 Le centre historique 22 U Les incontournables 74 Le centre commerçant 30 Selon vos envies 82 Le centre institutionnel 36 Les itinéraires 90 De Kolonaki à Exarchia 36 - Trois jours à Athènes 94 Le Pirée 39 - Une semaine à Naxos, Amorgos et Koufonissia 99 42 - Quatre jours à Santorin Cyclades et Folegandros septentrionales 44 - Cinq jours à Mykonos 100 Plan 3 Les Cyclades et Tinos septentrionales 4 SOMMAIRE ÎLES GRECQUES 102 U Les incontournables 235 Plan 18 Naxos 104 Nos conseils 246 Amorgos 106 Rendez- vous avec… 248 Plan 19 Amorgos 108 Andros 256 Les Petites Cyclades 111 Plan 4 Andros 258 Plan 20 Les Petites Cyclades 116 Tinos 264 Ios 118 Plan 5 Tinos 266 Plan 21 Ios 128 Mykonos 272 Sikinos 131 Plan 6 Mykonos 274 Plan 22 Sikinos 134 Plan 7 Delos 276 Santorin 144 Syros 279 Plan 23 Santorin 146 Plan 8 Syros 294 Anafi 152 Kythnos 296 Plan 24 Anafi 155 Plan 9 Kythnos 158 Kea 299 161 Plan 10 Kea Comprendre 300 Géographie et paysages 302 Histoire 165 Cyclades 308 Population et société occidentales 310 Économie 166 Plan 11 Les Cyclades 311 La pensée antique occidentales 314 Architecture 168 U Les incontournables 316 Arts 170 Nos conseils 318 Gastronomie 172 Rendez- vous avec… 174 Serifos 323 177 Plan 12 Serifos Carnet pratique 180 Sifnos 324 Avant de partir 182 Plan 13 Sifnos 326 Agenda 188 Milos 328 Transports 191 Plan 14 Milos et Kimolos 333 Sur place 200 Folegandros 203 Plan 15 Folegandros 339 Hébergements 341 Athènes 207 Cyclades 342 Les Cyclades septentrionales orientales 346 Les Cyclades occidentales 208 Plan 16 Les Cyclades 349 Les Cyclades orientales orientales 210 U Les incontournables 354 212 Nos conseils Index 214 Rendez- vous avec… 216 Paros 218 Plan 17 Paros et Antiparos 232 Naxos 5 REPORTAGE LE VIN AU VERT Plantés il y a des millénaires, les vignobles des îles de la mer Égée étaient en déshérence. Des aventuriers du goût ressuscitent aujourd’hui les parcelles et produisent des vins naturels à partir de cépages locaux. Texte Lola Saba Photo Patrick Swirc 6 REPORTAGE | LE VIN AU VERT 7 Les bouteilles de vin du domaine de Kalathas, cirées à la main de vin du domaine de Kalathas, bouteilles Les REPORTAGE vingt minutes de bateau de Mykonos, Tinos est une île À des Cyclades battue par les vents. Si les nuits de Mykonos at- tirent noctambules et fêtards, Tinos passe pour séduire d’autres sortes de “pèlerins”. Une fois l’an, le 15 août, des milliers de croyants abordent les côtes et montent du port jusqu’à l’église de la Panagia Evangelistria pour célébrer une icône de la Vierge Marie réputée miraculeuse. Hormis ce fameux pèlerinage orthodoxe, hor- mis les centaines de pigeonniers qui émaillent depuis des siècles un pay- sage de montagnes arides, Tinos ne faisait guère parler d’elle jusqu’à pré- sent. Ces dernières années, les choses ont changé pourtant. Il se murmure en effet que de cette terre discrète proviennent parmi les meilleurs vins de la mer Égée. Le dieu Éole voisine- rait- il avec le divin Dionysos… ? Dionysos se reconnaît à sa chevelure tressée de grappes de raisin, sa couronne de feuilles de vigne ou encore ses petites cornes de taureau. 8 REPORTAGE | LE VIN AU VERT 9 Vendange manuelle et tri draconien à la vigne tri draconien manuelle et Vendange Le dieu Éole voisinerait-​​il avec le divin Dionysos… ? À Tinos, le vin est une affaire de tressée de grappes de raisin, sa cou- longue date. Les vignes sont cultivées ronne de feuilles de vigne ou encore depuis l’Antiquité. Sur les amphores, ses petites cornes de taureau. Vêtu les plats ou les mosaïques que l’on a d’une longue tunique et d’une cape pu retrouver dans les Cyclades, Dio- en peau de lynx, il porte souvent un nysos se reconnaît à sa chevelure thyrse, un bâton surmonté d’une 10 REPORTAGE | LE VIN AU VERT Foulage au pied de la cuvée Kokkinaki pomme de pin. Fils de Zeus et de Sé- ciel, et que l’Aurore aux doigts de rose mélé, le dieu du Vin incarne la convi- contemplera Arcture, ô Persès ! cueille vialité, l’exubérance, mais aussi tous les raisins et apporte-​les dans ta l’ivresse et la sauvagerie. Le vin est demeure ; expose-​les au soleil dix consommé depuis 6 000 ans en Grèce, jours et dix nuits. Conserve-​les à mais les premières traces de viticul- l’ombre pendant cinq jours, et le si- ture remontent à 3 000 ans. Dans Les xième, renferme dans les vases ces Travaux et les Jours, Hésiode, au 8e s. présents du joyeux Bacchus.” av. J.‑C., livre déjà des conseils de vi- nification : “Lorsque Orion et Sirius Le vin est millénaire à Tinos, mais seront parvenus jusqu’au milieu du l’art de la vigne a véritablement pris 11 12 REPORTAGE | LE VIN AU VERT 13 (à g.). Concentration pendant la presse pendant (à g.). Concentration koumariano Jus et baies de Jus et REPORTAGE son essor au Moyen Âge, sous l’occu- pation vénitienne. L’exploitation des vignobles a décliné avec l’exode des insulaires et le vieillissement des po- pulations, la culture s’est perdue au mitan du 20e s., et il a fallu toute l’opi- niâtreté d’un Jérôme Binda (domaine de Kalathas), d’un Alexandre Avatan- gelos (domaine T‑ Oinos) ou encore d’un Mikalis Kontizas (domaine Vo- latus Wine) pour retrouver traces des vignobles abandonnés. Au nord-est de l’île, dans un rude décor d’éboulis de roches, le domaine de Kalathas produit des vins naturels à partir de cépages autochtones cen- tenaires, tels que rozaki, aspro et mavro potamissi, koumariano, ou gdurra. Jé- rôme Binda a dû recréer les terrasses le long des pentes, les pierres extraites du sol servant à construire les murets. Les vignes franc de pied, dont cer- taines sont plus que centenaires, sont cultivées et vinifiées selon les mé- thodes traditionnelles. Lorsque l’on parcourt les parcelles qui dominent la mer, on a la surprise de découvrir que la plupart d’entre elles ne sont pas sur pied mais couchées, de manière à ne pas laisser prise au vent. Elles prennent racine dans un sol sableux. Cette exposition et ce terrain valent aux vins du domaine une grande mi- néralité, de la fraîcheur et un goût presque iodé. Mis en bouteille sans soufre, ni additifs, ces vins non filtrés font le bonheur de gastronomes aux quatre coins de la planète, même si la production est encore restreinte. Non loin, les vignes du domaine T-​Oinos se déploient sur une dizaine d’hectares gagnés sur un sol grani- tique, à plus de 400m d’altitude. Pour 14 REPORTAGE | LE VIN AU VERT 15 rozaki Premières impressions sur le moût de impressions Premières Étiquetage16 artisanal REPORTAGE constituer son domaine, Alexandre Mis en bouteille sans Avatangelos a recherché les meilleurs emplacements sur le terroir et créé soufre, ni additifs, plusieurs clos à partir de variétés cy- | cladiques greffées. Les cépages locaux ces vins non filtrés LE VIN AU VERT – l’assyrtiko et la malagousia en blanc, font le bonheur le mavrotragano et l’avgoustiatis en rouge – affrontent continûment le de gastronomes meltem (un vent du nord violent), et parfois la neige l’hiver.
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