The team at our association would like to wish you all the best for 2025.

This will be a decisive year for our association. Irrespective of the current events:

• First and foremost, we will be continuing our efforts. To secure further funding for the archaeological excavations at the Despotiko site. We will also continue to support the work of the not-for-profit company. Whose aim is to create an archaeological park on the site of the ancient marble quarries at Marathi. The FoPA are members of this association, to whose creation they played a major part.

• We will also be continuing our editorial activities. The development of our website and our digital Bulletin will be accompanied. By the publication of printed Bulletins and the continued publication of books in the ‘Friends of Paros and Antiparos’ series. In early 2025, we plan to publish and present a trilingual book. Entitled ‘ The Byzantine Roads and Monasteries of Paros ’, written by Richard Valantassis. Based on the work of our compatriot Nikos Aliprantis. The book is illustrated with engravings by one of the island’s most important artists, Stelios Ghikas. Both the printed Bulletin and the series of books have been produced in collaboration with the Paros publishing house Anagennisi.
• We will also continue to offer our cultural activities, such as visits to archaeological sites and theatre workshops.
• The FoPA will also continue to participate in and support the citizens’ movement on Paros. As well as on the Cycladic islands, where a number of associations have been set up to defend the Cycladic identity. Of these islands and their sustainable development. The development of these actions is of great importance for the inhabitants of the islands. To defend the ‘common goods’ and to facilitate their actions. The FoPA will empower citizens in their courageous efforts to champion the sustainable development of our islands.