2 Best Sights in The Northern Aegean Islands, Greece

The home of Stratis Eleftheriadis, better known by his French name, Teriade, houses a luminous collection of French art, much of which appeared in his highly influential Paris publications Minotaure and Verve. Among the works on display are lithographs done for the publisher/collector/critic by Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Rouault, Giacometti, and Miró. The house is set among the olive trees of Varia and is worth the detour; it is also home to the Museum of Theophilos.

Sitting amid olive groves this dusty pink museum houses a large number of the eponymous artist's naive, precise neo-Hellenic works, detailing the everyday life of local folk such as fishermen and farmers, and polytheistic fantasies of another age. Theophilos lived in poverty but painted airplanes and cities he had never seen. He painted in bakeries for bread, and in cafés for ouzo, and walked around in ancient dress. For a time, he lived inside a tree that can be seen in the hamlet of Karini.