Galaxidi harbor town
— the harbour the captains came home to.
Not only on a wall.
Galaxidi harbor town, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“Galaxidi keeps a double harbour on a low peninsula in the Gulf of Corinth, across the water from Itea and below the slopes of Mount Parnassus. The town's nineteenth-century captains built tall stone mansions with painted ceilings and slate roofs from the money the merchant fleet earned. The fleet is long gone; the houses, the boat sheds, and the Maritime Museum still hold its memory along the quiet quay.
The place, in three passes.
Galaxidi is a small town in the regional unit of Phocis, on the north shore of the Gulf of Corinth, set on a low peninsula that gives it two harbours. The population is roughly 1,800. The town sits about fifteen kilometres south of Delphi by road and directly opposite Itea across the bay. Mount Parnassus rises to the northeast. Settled in classical antiquity, Galaxidi reached its peak in the nineteenth century, when its merchant marine of roughly 350 sailing ships made it one of the wealthiest small ports in Greece.
The captains' mansions, built between roughly 1830 and 1880, line the lanes climbing back from the quay. Local masons used pale Parnassus limestone, with slate roofs and carved wooden balconies; many interiors carry painted ceilings done by itinerant artists. The Nautical and Historical Museum of Galaxidi, founded in 1927, holds figureheads, ships' models, and the Galaxidi Chronicle of 1703, a rare manuscript history of the town. The arrival of steam in the late nineteenth century undercut the wooden-sail fleet, and the town's building stopped almost in place.
Galaxidi is reached by road in about two and a half hours from Athens, often paired with a day at Delphi fifteen kilometres north. There is no train and no airport closer than Athens. The two harbours are walked, not driven; the town centre keeps cars at the edge. Spring and autumn are mild and quiet. Carnival weekend each February brings the Alevromoutzouroma, a flour-throwing celebration in the streets that draws a national crowd.
