The beautiful Greek island 'on the brink' as tourists leave locals with 'nothing but bars'

A local of a beautiful island says it's no longer 'self-sufficient' due to tourism. (Image: Getty) A beautiful Greek island once "teeming with children and shops" has been left only with bars because of tourism , a local claims. Iosif Stefanou, an architect, urban planner and professor at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), has been closely involved with the protection of traditional Cycladic architecture on Syros for decades, and spoke to Greek outlet ekathimerini.

com about how the tourism trade has sucked the life out it. Talking to the outlet as they walked through the area, Stefanou reflected sadly that while the island's capital Ermoupoli had formerly been "self-sufficient", it now "only has bars. In summer, it’s crowded with people; in winter, it’s dead", he added.

The academic once saw the island as "a model of coexistence. A mother would hear her neighbor’s baby crying and would run there first", but houses now remain silent for months while their owners are away, he said. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.

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