The Aegean Harbor — 1014 Piece Art Puzzle

The light here arrives at an angle that makes everything look like it was always meant to be painted. White walls, cobalt domes, fishing boats bobbing in water so clear you can see the bottom — a harbor that seems to have been arranged specifically for the hour before the afternoon heat arrives. Somewhere above the rooftops, a windmill turns in a breeze that smells of the Aegean.

1014 pieces of blue and white and the particular gold of Cycladic afternoon — the domed churches stepping down toward the water, the narrow whitewashed lanes, the boats at anchor and the sea beyond them going deeper blue by the minute. Every level of this scene rewards the looking.

Some places make you feel like you've been there before.