Symi Sponge Diving and the Sponge Trade of the Island
Symi built its nineteenth-century wealth on sponge diving and the sponge trade. The small Dodecanese island sent a large fleet across the Aegean and down to the North African coast to work the seabeds for natural sponges. Profits from the trade paid for the neoclassical mansions that ring the harbour and the upper town, and … Read more