"if, in ancient times, Sifnos' wealth was measured by the gold and silver it produced, in the last two centuries it can be measured by its cultural output."

SIFNOS: In the Cycladic landscape civilization flourished through the daily routine, the celebrations, the religious festivals, the whitewashing of the house taking care of the cobbled lanes, the maintenance of the dry stone walls in the fields, the wise cultivation of the land, the creation of works of art from clay, the picking of the olives, the meeting with the saltiness of the sea.

SIFNOS: The houses harmoniously woven with the natural landscape even today emphasize the need for respect towards the civilization with which they harmoniously boarded with the passing of the centuries.

SIFNOS: Here one still can find paths lined with stones, forests with cedar-trees and oak-trees, lentisk and olives groves, sand hills and sea plants (like little lilies) which are threatened with extinction from the Mediterranean coasts.

SIFNOS: Today we are invited to pass into a future which is much friendlier towards civilizations and the environments which were both created and respected by previous generations.

Sifnos is known today as a summer resort, an island of natural beauty, with its hospitable and courteous inhabitants, its white washed traditional houses, its beautiful churches and chapels, its old monasteries and its popular as well as hidden-away beaches. But Sifnos is also known for its history, not least of all the treasure Sifnians deposited at Delphi thousands of years ago, and its ancient castles, vestiges of the Golden Era of classical Greek history.

Equally worth mentioning is the Sifnians' contribution to the sciences and the Greek literary tradition. As someone wrote, "if, in ancient times, Sifno's wealth was measured by the gold and silver it produced, in the last two centuries it can be measured by its cultural output." Indeed, the island can boast a large number of Sifnians who contributed to the social development and reconstruction of the modern Greek state: politicians, teachers, religious leaders, journalists, lawyers and economists. And we shouldn't neglect to mention the local literary tradition that has become an integral part of the literary tradition in Greece, and which still remains vibrant today.

Known as the "Poets Island" Sifnos has given birth to such poets as Ioannis Gryparis, Cleanthis Triantaphillou (also known as Rambaya), Aristomenis Provelengios, Stelios and Theodosios Sperantzas, Titos Patrikios , and Nikos G. Stafilopatis, the editor of the Anthology of Sifnian Poets (the collection of folklore songs and carols which won the Greek Academy's Prize), as well as the playwrighter Manolis Korres, the folklorist Manos Philippakis, the journalist and literary author Georgios X. Manjouranis, and the academics and authors Nikos Kalmaris, Antonios G. Troullos and, among many others, G.B. Prokos.