Maria. Treasure of Halkidiki

A painting of the beautiful Maria, the heroine of my novel "The Treasures of Halkidiki".

Excerpt from the novel:

“Many years ago, when I was still a very small child, there lived a girl in our village. She was completely special. As the old people say, she was amazingly beautiful! She had long thick hair the color of a raging flame and pale porcelain skin. But she was not special only with her amazing and unusual beauty for Greece. The locals called her the muse of Halkidiki, so to speak, the guardian of the peninsula. She was as if one with this land. She knew how to talk to trees, the sea, and stones, and they answered her. She saw the future, healed people. People from all over the world came to our village to meet her and came for help. Everything blossomed and flourished around her! People came here, built houses, hotels, restaurants. There was life around her! Her name was Maria. And she planted these roses near her house more than thirty years ago. It was so beautiful! Imagine, the edge of the beach in spring was dotted with scarlet buds. The locals admired and appreciated this place. But then something happened that no one expected. A tragedy has occurred. Under unexplained circumstances, Maria drowned at sea. Immediately after her death, the grief-stricken father cut off all the rosebuds and scattered them across the sea in memory of his daughter, of the miracle that God gave him so briefly and so suddenly took him to heaven. These rose bushes continued to grow, but since then they have never bloomed, not a single bud has appeared on them in all these thirty years. And now I was surprised when I saw the bright blooming rosebuds in your painting"

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