When a Turkish merchant ship crashed in 1690 in the bay of Kalandos, only five sailors and a boy survived. He was only 12 years old. Heavily wounded, his life might have ended there if not for the shepherd Stefanos Psarras, also known as Loumbas, who nursed him back to health. Years later, when Loumbas was accused of rebellion against the Ottomans for attempting to rebuild an ancient church in Filoti, he was rewarded for his loving care in the most unexpected way – a twist of fate so unlikely and miraculous that it remained in the memory of the Naxian people for centuries, cherished and retold as the legend of ‘Kane to kalo kai richtho sto giallo’. Come and experience the miracle yourself in the legend of Loumbas and his son Giorgis.
Difficulty: Low to medium, running along official hiking path No. 2 to Aria springs
Duration: 75 min., return from Aria spring needs to be organised by private pickup, taxi or return via the hiking path
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Voice Actor
Loumbas – Kostas Chouzouris
Story Development
Astrid Scharlau
and the students of the 1st Highschool of Naxos
Dafne Gale
Irini Kokkiou
Vassilis Anevlavis
Writer
Georg Struck
Illustrations
Nour Mustafa
Sound recording
Georg Struck
Sound Design
Daniel Pohl
Niloofar Sadat Farhadi
Parsa Partovi
Film Production
Amir Sedaghat
Sina Azarbayjani
Production Coordinator
Niloofar Sadat Farhadi
Web App
Prof. Claudius Coenen
The Guardians of Naxos were developed in a collaboration by Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Department of Communication, Media and Culture, Professor Nikos Leandros and Dr Panagiotis Kapos), Cyprus University of Technology (Media Arts & Design Research Lab, Associate Professor Doros Polydorou) and Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (Department of Media, Professor Claudius Coenen and Professor Georg Struck)
