Rocks like beasts, stones “wounded” by the wind and old quarries in the entrails of the earth, in Exo Meria. In the most northwest part of Tinos, where nature shows its wildest face, everything speaks the language of marble.
Man, in his effort to face the changes that surround him, makes his on history. Freely but within a rather determined framework and with little deviation ability. In our villages, Marla, Mamados, Ismail, Kato Marla, the majority of people were marblers, quarriers, seamen and much fewer were farmers and breeders. They were people progressive, restless, open to innovation. They were rapidly taking in anything new and foreign that the migrated marblers in Black Sea and Middle East as well as the seamen from their long journeys were carrying. In this way, a radical, innovative and creative society was formed in the geographical limits of the Edging Parts of Tinos. The vital economical and geographical limits of the Edging Parts are determined in the northwest part of the island and are distinguished from those of Pyrgos by the conceivable line that begins from Ligostamata position in the southwest coasts of Tinos, leaves the top of Petala in the north and descends to Agia Moni. From there it goes on to Kato Marlas and in the bottom of Kyra Kseni and the Monastery and then, following the foothills of Profitis Ilias (shelters), ends up to the bay of Ornon.
