The studies for the Museum of Migration and the tribute it will pay to our expatriates, the heavy blood toll for some other immigrants in the terrible Antikythera shipwreck and the stoned student community of Kythera, make up the picture of the news of Tsigori for December.
A museum takes shape
The Museum of Migration, a personal vision of the Mayor of Kythera, Efstratios Harhalakis, is on its way to being implemented. At the General Assembly on 5 December 2021, the members of the FMC gave their approval to the Board of Directors to proceed with the architectural and museological study while Kythera.News published a video with the presentation of the site where the museum will be built in Agia Pelagia.
Drama in Antikythera
The journey to Ithaca did not have a happy ending for some «children of a lesser God». Two days before the incarnation of the Incarnation, the sailboat carrying them from the coast of Turkey to Italy and a better life, violently ran aground on the rocky islet of Prasonisi, north of Antikythera. The investigations of the Coast Guard, coordinated by the Joint Coordination Centre for Search and Rescue, resulted in the identification of 90 people who had taken refuge on the rocky islet, with the divers searching for people trapped on the seabed and the final, black account, counting 11 dead, 9 of them women.
A few days earlier, the ship of the line, Aqua Jewel, which was operating the Kythera-Gythion route, stuck in the shoals of the port basin of Gythio, with fortunately minor damage and no injuries reported among the passengers.
Pandemic calendar
An alarm has been raised by the island's health authorities following the repeated cases of coronavirus that have hit the school community, with the virus showing a preference for high school students with the High School to record his own incident. The sharp rise in infections led authorities to take emergency decontamination measures with the high school and middle school buildings remain closed for Friday, 17 December.
The situation eventually normalized, despite the outbreak detected at the Primary School of Karvounades, on the eve of Christmas, with health protocols putting a stop to the further spread of the virus, which, combined with the high flights in which Kythera moved on the issue of vaccination of the booster dose in recent times, have added a note of optimism ahead of the new year.
The in Demos
The activity in the road works for the month of December was orgiastic, with the reconstruction of the main road in Viaradika to start and the widening and cementing of the Antikythera River Peripheral Road be completed.
On the website of the Municipality, the news were posted forms of the tourist identity of Kythera, and the announcement of the preparation of a Local Urban Plan for Kythera and Antikythera, which is expected to put an end to urban anarchy, protect nature, the built and man-made environment and the culture of the islands, safeguarding them from anarchic and pharaonic development.
