Islanders relaxing outside of a Naxos cafe.

The interior of Naxos, one of the islands in the Greek Cyclades group, is covered with fertile valleys containing fruit orchards and vineyards. This is also the island where Dionysus found Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, and married her.

"She bore the young god many a child, and he, in his 'tree-god' incarnation--one among his many passports--saw to it that the whole of nature burst into bloom to share their happiness."

--from The Greek Islands, by Lawrence Durrell