For travelers interested in the sustainable tourism, Amorgos Island is the ideal place. Understand the environment!
As with many places in the Mediterranean Basin, the landscapes of Amorgos have undergone many significant changes over the last few decades. An extensive network of terraces and dry stonewalls—nowadays considered as traditional—are the result of economic development based on agriculture and food processing.
Today, the rural population and intensity of cultivation have both dramatically declined, and these unique characteristics are disappearing, or sometimes destroyed. The cause of these changes is mainly the developments in production and social structure. With the arrival of tourism on the island, locals slowly change their way of living.
Conscious of the importance of these dry stone walls to their economy, ecology, and indeed heritage, various associations on Amorgos Island, together with distinguished private businesses like the Aegialis Hotel & Spa decided to repair and reconstruct them but also to promote the agricultural labor.
