This paradise brought to us by Kostas G. Vidakis in his new book “Drama. Terra Incognita”, he is accompanied by an aura of digested wisdom. We can say that this album most fully reflects the unique natural richness of Drama. But I’d rather approach it with more holiness and give this undertaking a teleological mission dimension.

The time has come, a few years ago, when the concerted efforts of passionate people took the Drama cause to the national stage. Never before has Drama, the city and natural resources of the prefecture, together with its beautiful villages, enjoyed such extroversion. But this is the initial, the only chapter, because the ambitions are higher. An album of 470 photographs, signed by the “patron” of the drama Kostas G. Vidakis, sponsored by the AMKE of the drama “Kyklops” to protect, use and promote the dramatic character, is a springboard for admiring such beauty, but mainly feeling, thinking, acting.

Kostas G. Vidakis himself notes, albeit modestly, that the publication is “an attempt to intensify the dialogue about terra incognita, the unknown land. Drama is above all a place of mountains and an unimaginable variety of life.” This is known to anyone who has followed Kostas G. Vidakis in the forest of Fraktos, one of the most memorable landscapes in Greece, a place of intoxicating and inner expansion. There, at the Fence, you silently converse with the fact that there is God inside you.

Drama edition. “Terra incognita” reveals the great potential of this place.

“Kostas G. Vidakis has a clear ecological outlook and conscience, his work itself testifies to this,” writes prose writer Draminos Vassilis Tsiabusis in his direct preface. “But Drama, Terra Incognita is not an environmental manifesto. It is a description of the paradise that is near us…” The fruit of an evolutionary process, since its author is “now richer in experience and scientific knowledge”, as Vasilis Tsiabusis aptly notes, this book is a condenser of the Drama’s spirit. It carries a message and offers us open your eyes and redefine our hierarchies.

The beauty of the photographs, a real “natural and anthropological palimpsest”, gives rise to the necessary mental substratum in order to partake in the great value of the Drama Prefecture. The prefecture, which not only as a tourist destination, but also as a place that touchingly symbolizes many aspects of Greek and Balkan life, can once again raise the question of the rebirth of East Macedonia beyond stereotypes.

These numerous measurements and parameters are brought to all of us by this edition. It’s an album, that’s for sure, but a huge effort album that deepens the experience of this place.

Kostas G. Vidakis, as a person who constantly recognizes the contribution of those who share common values, thanks to many, a valuable sponsor and supporter, the company “Kyklops”, as well as Nikos Petru, one of his main comrades from the first years when they looked at each other, as Christos P. Faraklas, philological editor of the volume.