Traditional Cycladic architecture characterizes Sifnos
There are 13 settlements and villages inhabited all year long in Sifnos and most of the buildings follow the tradition. Some of the characteristics are the flat roofs because in almost every house we collect rain water in cisterns underground, the ceramic ending of the chimney called "flaros", the stone - covered yards and stone - covered footpaths with white lines around stones, the whitewashed buildings and of course the dry stone walls everywhere on the island. These walls which are so old that we don’t know when they where built, used to keep the little rain and the little soil we have, they separated properties and they show that the whole island used to be cultivated in the past.
Nowadays there are students from universities in E.U. and U.S.A who come here to study Cycladic architecture using sifnos villages as an example.
