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Tinos, Greece: dove cote
Tinos is famous for its fine quality green marble and for its artists, especially marble sculptors. The island has more than 1,000 pigeon-lofts scattered around, about the same number of small churches, and 50 picturesque, traditional villages, some of them with unique features, like Volax, the village with the meteorites. The dove cotes are there because raising doves was an extra source of income. People would gild and tile the dove cotes to attract more birds.