Florina
The Cross on the mountain is to let everyone know Fiorina is a graveyard, Louis Corovessis, a pharmaceutical clerk, says jokingly. But some people who live in this small border-town fear Corovessis’s morbid humour could be a premonition. Fiorina, a town of ten thousand inhabitants in Northern Greece, could eventually suffer the fate of many of Greece’s small towns and villages— empty streets symbolizing a widespread emigration to the cities and to other countries. The result has been a shrinking rural population, consisting primarily of older people with fewer opportunities for employment and a secure future.
