Greece hides a parallel landscape behind its ancient ruins and whitewashed islands — Xenia modernist hotels abandoned across the country since the 1980s, the former Athens international airport with Olympic...
Greece's derelict landscape is one of the most underexplored in Europe — a country where the 2008 financial crisis compounded a century of rural exodus to produce abandoned hotels on...
Greece's abandoned hotel landscape is the direct result of two overlapping histories: the EOT Xenia program of the 1950s–70s, which built 53 modernist state hotels across the country in extraordinary...
Santorini is Greece's most visited island — and one of its most paradoxically derelict. The catastrophic 1956 earthquake (7.8 magnitude) destroyed a large portion of the island's buildings and drove...
The Greek islands contain some of the most visually extraordinary abandoned landscapes in Europe — ghost villages perched on Aegean hillsides emptied in the post-war rural exodus, derelict hotels on...
Athens is one of Europe's most surprising urbex cities — a capital where a former international airport with jumbo jets on the tarmac sits 7km from the Acropolis, where an...
Greece is one of Europe's most underrated urbex destinations — a country where the 2008 financial crisis compounded a century of rural exodus to produce a derelict landscape of extraordinary...
Portugal is one of Europe's most rewarding urbex destinations — a country where centuries of Atlantic trade wealth left a specific architectural legacy of abandoned quintas, palaces and manor houses,...
Portugal rewards the urban explorer with a specific dereliction density — centuries of Atlantic trade wealth abandoned in quintas and palaces from the Minho to the Algarve, a first 5-star...
Portugal's abandoned villa landscape is a direct consequence of Atlantic trade wealth — the "Brasileiros" who returned from Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th centuries built ornate Art...
Portugal's abandoned hotel landscape ranges from a 5-star Azorean hotel above a volcanic caldera that lasted 18 months to a 1920s radioactive spa in the granite mountains of Beira that...
Portugal's Atlantic coastline is one of the longest in Europe — 1,794km from the Minho estuary to the Guadiana — and its coastal dereliction reflects the full range of abandonment...
