Another paradisiacal Greek island that trembles in the Aegean
> La Nacion> Magazine places February 18, 202506: 006 minutes of reading, since they began, on January 26, 2025, more than 14,000 tremors have shaken the islands of Santorini, Amorgos, IOS and Anafi. According to scientists, the tectonic plaque causing the intense seismic activity originates in the underwater Ánydros fault, located precisely between the islands of amoros and Santorini. He considered it uninhabitable. However, this member of the cycled deserves to be reserved for tourists looking for traditional, rural, quiet, white villages with blue doors and windows, narrow and paved streets with stone steps, donkeys and goats grazing or crossing the roads and a fabulous maritime horizon to enjoy its rustic beaches, swim, navigate and dive. This telluric activity is not uncommon in love affairs, which is “accustomed” to earthquakes, as the oldest one who has suffered, in 1956; However, history shows that it has always resisted by its geological structure. Thus, the MONASTERIO DE HOZOVIOTISSA, clinging to an abrupt rock formation in front of the generous sea. Appeals has no airport And the only way to get to it is through a ferry from Piraeus in Athens or from some neighboring cycled such as Naxos or Milos and reaching one of the two ports: katapola in the south or aegiali in the north. This is why there are few tourists … a fact that enhances the island and work as an attraction. This differs from the legions of travelers from the world that travel the preferred Santorini, Mikonos, Naxos, Milos, Rhodes or Crete. In this regard, there are tourist operators that usually suggest more discrete options. Free and very little visited playas by tourists. Valga of comparison that the City of Buenos Aires has almost double surface and houses 3 million people. The capital is Chora (or Khora), a medieval mountain town with the presence of old windmills that are only decorative and venerated monuments. All protected by an ancient Venetian castle of the thirteenth century inside whose ancient churches are preserved. sinuous alleys With pleasant taverns, stores and coffees of simple and typical furniture, along with Plazuelas and Iglesias. It is close to the Monastery and Agia Anna Beach, qualified as among the best of the total Hellenic offer, although it does not have such good summer services and there are pedregulations instead of fine sand; although it is blessed by a small chapel of pure traditional style built on a rock and by the sea. Venetian cast in Chora, Amorgos.amorgos Island among the main coves is close Kalotaritissaon the western side, in which, for being in a closed bay, the waves are insignificant and the winds or appear. It is where they also anchor various vessels. Very close to the chlorination “Olympia” ship, which became famous for Luc Besson's movie. Actually, his original name was “Inland” and apparently was manned by modern pirates under the appearance of commercial ship. Another delight are the Cuevas del Mar. You can enter the turquoise waters to surrounding underwater caverns to the two small beaches of Mouro, where you arrive with line buses and with car or motorcycle. You can eat in a restaurant and there is a cafeteria/bar. A wrapped ship, location of a film by Luc Besson and diving site per apnea.nikos Taskospor the clarity of its waters, the site chosen by the French filmmaker Luc Besson to roll Le Grand Bleu, 1988, with Jean Reno and Roxane Arquette. The story tells the rivalry between two renowned divers by apnea (keeping breathing in the depths). Visitors still arrive to travel the locations of the film and be surprised with visibility when diving in the kingdom of Poseidon. In the plan of little known places it is unmissable Asphondilitiswhich implies a time trip, a unique example of love architecture where two hundred mysterious rock engravings are admired randomly and the church of San Nicolás. The abandoned settlement is in the middle of Megali Strata, an old road that connects Chora with Aegiali.The history of these 126 km2 of land that emerged as a result of volcanic activity, was very changing. Inhabited from the stone age, she was part of different maritime domains and was a whereabouts of confinement of undesirable characters during the Roman Empire and the Byzantine, as well as served as a pirate refuge. Like the famous Corsair Barbarroja occupied it in 1537 remaining under the Ottoman power three centuries, since only in 1832 was released and went on to integrate the then Kingdom of Greece.The sacred image of the island's parishioners. VEMA Orthodoxies This has been the background of the greatest love attraction: Hozoviotissa, whose walls resemble a strength or it is, say, by the religious transcendence for the islanders and pilgrims who achieve Visit it after touring a winding path of wide stone steps carved in the rock right next to a precipice. Alto del Límpid Grace of Panagia (the Virgin Mary), Patron of Amorgostherefore, the miraculous identity icon is carried by the villages throughout the year to pay tribute to liturgical services. The Panagia icon Hozoviotissa of Amorgos. Municipality of Amorgos according to tradition, the icon came from Hozovo (Palestine) in the Holy Land when a woman threw the relic of the Virgin Mary into the sea so that she was not destroyed and arrived in Agia Anna, where the islanders rescued her. Hence the nickname Hozoviotissa and the sense of building the site of worship. Here, every November 21 the holiday begins with a previous day of prayer and then a meal for the attendees where local wine and homemade wine are not lacking. The menu is usually Favaa puree of legumes with olive oil or fried or boiled cod with potatoes, plus some local desserts. I am still entry to the religious center of love. The habitable spaces are intricate and labyrinthine, conditioned by the geological. The atmosphere is permeated from the perfume to incense to raise the mystical. There are guard monks who act as guides. In this regard, you have to find out the days and schedules of visit and attend with suitable clothes to be covered, both men and women. Thank you to perpendicular linear architecture, it is about 40 m high and just 5 m wide, although has 8 levels that optimize the rocky holes where the cloisters, the church, the dining room, the warehouse and auxiliary facilities are distributed to meet the needs of the brotherhood in the context of the steep. Implanted on the side of the Mount Profiti Eliasfor being only visible from the sea, he leaves visitors speechless. And to learn about prehistoric settlers and the Roman era there is a collection of pieces of different deposits in the archaeological museum that works in the Tower of Gavras, a construction of the Venetian period of the 16th century.
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