This Little Greek Island Couldn’t Give a Hoot About Jeff Bezos’s Yacht

Spend a few hours at Salamis for a deep dive into a battle that changed the world.

Anthony Grant/The New York Sun
The monument of the Salamina fighters is atop a large circular limestone and gravel tomb where the warriors who fell in the victorious naval battle were said to have been buried. Anthony Grant/The New York Sun

SALAMINA, Greece — Greek summer is loosely the Hellenic equivalent of the Hollywood awards season, when all eyes are on the A-list celebrities who keep an entire industry afloat. Here, those stars come in the form of islands, some better known than others but all ready for their annual close-ups this time of year when the yachts of the rich and famous ply the Aegean and Ionian seas. 

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