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Thanos

Dodecanese


Look for the left-field window display with coloured wigs, hidden down an alley, and enter this cave of finely wrought one-off pieces of pendants, bracelets, rings, earrings and precious stones, all made by the gifted hands of Thanos. Behind the main plateia (square).


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