Gustavo Duran

Adjacent to the church we meet a statue of the Spanish General Gustav Duran. Meeting a statue of this famous general in a small village like Alones is a surprise, but he had a very special relationship with the village of Alones. When he was alive he visitied Alones and was so impressed with the village life and the hospitality offered by the locals who visited it many times. He once saw local women carrying pitchers with water from the village spring in their homes and decided to donate the building of a modern water supply system in the village with pipes carrying water in every home. A few years later the Spanish General died as he asked his body to be buried in Alones, where we meet this grave below a huge oak tree, that was his favorite place to sit and relax. ∼ Musician, Politician. He was buried in a non-cemetery lot in Alones (Creta, Greece).