These metal boxes with skinny wire legs look bizarre to the uninitiated. Some of them are quite elaborate, others are so simple that
they look like letterboxes. They have glass doors with a lamp flickering inside and a picture of a saint. They stand to pay homage to roadside victims who have either perished in fatal accidents or who, through some miracle, have survived. A number of them are quite old and as time goes by are forgotten to rust, or in the case of the shrine in this photo, be swallowed by the frost. The tradition of these shrines – like most things in Greece – dates back to antiquity.