A cluster of houses on stilts serving as a temporary refuge for mussel farmers and fishermen on the bay of the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki will be supplied with electricity and running water, the president of the local fishing association “O Axios” told Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA).
The 30 shacks were set up in 2000 with joint EU-Greece financing. The stilts allow local mussel farmers and fishermen to tie their boats under the houses and store their equipment and fishnets inside. Some fishermen have transformed the upper floors into makeshift living rooms with couches, portable cookers and even curtains on the windows.
The municipality will equip the shacks with electricity meters in the next three months and landscape the area around for tourism reasons, Delta mayor Yiannis Ioannidis notes. They will also add larger refuse containers for the fishermen’s use, and the region of Central Macedonia will look into additional support for the homes from erosion issues.
“We want to be ready by summer, have operational toilets and turn the grounds into a visitor-friendly area,” Ioannidis points out.
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