Destination Santorini
Santorini is a crescent shape surrounding the black volcanic islands lying in the bay. What was once the island of Thira sank to the bottom of the caldera in the apocalyptic explosion in 1450 BC. The lagoon-like caldera measures 32 square miles and is 300 to 400 metres deep. In the center are Palea Kamini and Nea Kamini..
• Discover Santorini Guide A-Z
» Akrotiri
Akrotiri is the name of an excavation site of a Minoan Bronze Age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini, associated with the Minoan civilization due to inscriptions in Linear A, and close similarities in artifact and fresco styles. The excavation is named for a modern Greek village situated on a hill nearby. The name of the site in antiquity is unknown …
» Ancient Thera
Ancient Thera is an ancient city on a ridge of the steep, 360 m high Messavouno mountain on the Greek island of Santorini. It was named after the mythical ruler of the island, Theras, and was inhabited from the 9th century BC until 726 AD. Starting in 1895 the city was systematically investigated by the German archaeologist Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen, who excavated there until 1904 …
» Fira, Santorini
Fira is the modern capital of the Greek Aegean island, Santorini. Fira is a city of white-washed houses built on the edge of the 400 m high caldera on the western edge of the semi-circular island of Thera. The two main museums of interest are the Santorini Archeological Museum, 30 m east of the cable car entrance, and the Museum of Prehistoric Thera at the southeast corner of the White Orthodox Cathedral …
» Imerovigli, Santorini
Imerovigli is a village on the island of Santorini, Greece, adjacent to the north of the island capital Fira. Imerovigli is mostly famous for its beautiful sunset, that it is called 'balcony to the Aegean'. Its houses are built amphitheatrically around the caldera and it is crossed by narrow, paved paths. Imerovigli has many lovely churches, all made in the Cycladic architectural style …
» Kamari, Santorini
Kamariis a coastal village on the southeastern part of Santorini. It is approximately 8 km away from the island's capital Fira. The village got its name from a small arch that still rises at the south end of its beach and is what remains from an ancient sanctuary dedicated to Poseidon. Today, it stretches along a beach covered with black pebbles, which is the longest of the island …
» Minoan Eruption
The Minoan eruption of Thera, also referred to as the Santorini eruption, was a major catastrophic volcanic eruption which is estimated to have occurred in the mid second millennium BCE. The eruption was one of the largest volcanic events on Earth in recorded history. The eruption devastated the island of Thera, including the Minoan settlement at Akrotiri, as well as areas on nearby islands and on the coast of Crete …
» Nea Kameni
Nea Kameni is a small uninhabited Greek island of volcanic origin located in the Aegean Sea within the flooded Santorini caldera. Nea Kameni and the neighbouring small island Palea Kameni (the new and old burnt islands) have formed over the past two millennia by repeated eruptions of dacite lava and ash. The last small eruption happened in 1950 and involved lava dome extrusion …
» Oia, Santorini
Along the cliff of Oia, houses have been delved into the porous volcanic rock from the large volcanic explosion that sunk the center of the island. Parts of these houses are visible and the scenery that results from it is considered typically Greek. The town is noted for its picturesque architecture, a blend of medieval Venetian houses ('kapetanea' as they belonged to the captains) with small incave village homes …
» Santorini National Airport
Santorini National Airport is an airport in Santorini/Thira, Greece (IATA: JTR, ICAO: LGSR), located north of the village of Kamari. The airport serves both as a military and as a civil airport. With its relatively small apron, the airport is only able to serve up to 6 civilian planes at the same time. Santorini is one of the few Cyclades Islands with a major airport …
» Santorini Tomato
The Santorini is a cherry tomato native to Santorini, Greece. An abbot from the monastery Kapoutsinon brought the first Santorini cherry tomatoes to Greece in 1818. The variety of tomato began to be regularly cultivated in 1875. By the 1900s, 20 000 acres of tomato were regularly being harvested in Santorini …
» Santorini Wine
Although wine has been produced in Santorini since ancient Greek times, it was not until the Middle Ages that the wine of Santorini became famous under the influence of the Venetians. The Italian influence is still present in modern Santorini winemaking; one of the wines the region is known for is a sweet Vin Santo (labeled here as vinsanto) made in a passito style from grapes dried in the sun after harvest …
» Sellada
Sellada is a mountain pass between the peaks of Profitis Ilias and Mesa Vouno, near the village of Kamari in the island of Santorini, Greece. The NE and NW slopes of Sellada accommodated the necropolis of Ancient Thera, Santorini's classical antiquity city. Excavations in Sellada have uncovered several tombs with funeral gifts, pithoi, and funerary kouroi and korai, some of which are exhibited at Fira archaeological museum …
» Therasia
Therasia, also known as Thirasia, is an island in the volcanic island group of Santorini in the Greek Cyclades. It lies north-west of Nea Kameni, a small island formed in recent centuries by volcanic activity and thus marking the centre of the island group. Therasia is the second largest island of the group, the largest by far being Thera …
