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Santorini Greece

Since the exponential rise of the tourism in Greece in 1980's, Santorini took its place as the top touristic destination in Greece, and one of the top in the world. Santorini has been chosen as the best Island in the world for 2015 (TripAdvisor) and has reached the top rankings of several other lists based […]

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Thíra, Kikladhes, Greece

During my stay in Santorini, l overheared a middle aged couple discussing about the island. They were not satisfied of what they had seen so far. "What to see in Santorini? White houses?". Unfortunately this misconception is very common among tourists that visiting Santorini. Most of them are visiting from close-by islands like Crete and […]

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Santorini caldera

The volcanic eruption in Santorini created a caldera that literally sink the most part of island and created a giant lagoon in the middle. A caldera is formed after large volumes of magma erupt. Then the support to the ground is lost and this leads to the collapse of the surface. In Santorini's case the […]

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Santorini

An old cathedral in the village of Perissa, gave the name Santorini, to the island. The passing Frank crusades in the 13th century used to stop for supplies near to the church of Saint Irini. So they started to refer to the island as 'santa irina', which contracted later to the name as we know […]

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Santorini

Around 1610 BC, a complete round island in the middle of the aegean sea was devastated from one of the most massive volcanic eruptions recorded in human history. This eruption created a giant caldera covering an area more than 80 square kilometers. This event led to the fall of the great Minoan civilization while some […]

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