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Cyclades Islands selected destinations
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SANTORINI
ISLAND
 Hotels
in Santorini | Santorini
Weddings | Santorini
Villages | Santorini
Gallery | Tools
Santorini island, is the ideal island for
everyone. For most honeymoners that want to spend their time in
a unique place, for lovers of nature that want to see magnificent
beaches and of course to socialities.
The impressive Santorini is a volcano’s creation and Santorini’s
geological abnormalities have left it’s traces everywhere...
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MYKONOS
ISLAND
Hotels
in Mykonos | Mykonos
Photo Gallery | Mykonos
Tools & Tips | Delos
Island
Mykonos island, despite the big tourist growth,
has not lost the cycladic physiognomy, neither falls short of clean
seas and sandy beaches. All knows that in Mykonos everyone will
like the blue waters, the improbable sandy beaches and many beautiful
sunsets… The coasts of Mykonos have length 81 kilometers and
are amazing! ...
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IOS
ISLAND
Hotels
in Ios | Ios
Gallery | Ios
Tools & Tips
Ios Island has a strong
traditional Cycladic colour. Its houses, descending the hill, have
their sparkling whiteness interrupted only by belfries and blue
domes. Ios is decorated with small scenic bays, countless chapels,
vineyards, and olive trees, all set under the clear bright Cycladic
sky....
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NAXOS
ISLAND
Hotels
in Naxos | Naxos
Villages | Naxos
Tour | Naxos
Gallery | Naxos
Tools & Tips
Naxos island, the largest and most fertile
of the Cycladic islands, lies almost at the center of the
Aegean Sea. Rugged mountains and green valleys make Naxos one of
the most scenic of the Cyclades islands. Naxos is popular, although
not as heavily visited as other islands in Cyclades.
Naxos landscape is reach with citrus and olive groves...
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PAROS
ISLAND
Hotels
in Paros | Paros
Tours | Paros
Gallery | Paros
Tools & Tips
Serene landscape with fertile valleys and
rolling hills dotted with small churches and monasteries, endless
sandy beaches with sparkling blue waters, famous monuments from
the lands rich ancient and medieval past, picturesque white villages
bathed in the unique, dazzling Aegean light....
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MILOS
ISLAND
Hotels
in Milos | Milos
Gallery | Milos
Tools & Tips
Milos island located in Cyclades islands
86 nautical miles south of Piraeus (Athens port).
The coastal connection Piraeus Port to Milos island is daily. The
journey on the ordinary Ferry from Piraeus lasts 5 hours roughly,
while when the boat approaches also the harbors of remainder islands
of western Cyclades ....
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Cyclades Islands General Information
 Cyclades
islands, are a group of islands of varying sizes scattered over the deep
blue waters of the Aegean Sea.
Some of them are well-known both to the public at large and the international
'jet-set' (Mykonos, Santorini,
Syros, Milos, Ios,
Tinos, Paros, Naxos),
while others remain little known and scarcely figure on the tourist scene.
Taken as a whole, Cyclades islands make an ideal holiday destination for
visitors of the most varied tastes.
A fusion of stone, sunlight and sparkling sea , the Cyclades islands
lie to the east of the Peloponnese
and southeast of the coast of Attica (Athens).
They stretch as far as Samos island and
Ikaria island to the east, and are bounded to the south by the Cretan
Sea.
According to the most likely tradition, Cyclades owe their name to the
notional circle which they appear to form around the sacred isle of Delos.
The Cyclades have exercised a powerful charm since ancient times , even
though access to them then was not particularly easy.
This was the birthplace of one of the Mediterranean's most important
civilization (3000-1000 BC).
Geologists attribute the peculiar form which the Cyclades take today to
a succession of the geological upheavals - earthquakes, volcanic eruptions,
movements of the earth's crust- which resulted in the submergence of large
chunks of land . Many believe that one such stretch of land was the lost
continent of Atlantis.
The divers outlines of the islands as they protrude from the blue waters
of the Aegean Sea, bathed in the dazzling sunlight and embellished with
little white houses, resemble in the words of the Nobel Prize-winning
poet
Odysseus Elytis, "stone horses with rampant manes ".
Above all, the people who live in Cyclades, with their own individual
approach to the world, bring to life the marrow alleyways of the villages
and the pathways of the countryside, the countless tiny chapels, the windmills,
the dovecotes or the wind-beaten hillsides and are themselves a basic
feature of the charm which these possess.
Yet, in spite of the characteristics which the islands have in common
- sparkling sea, sun, the landscape and the austere line of the architecture
- each retains its own individual features, which visitors can discover
as they explore them one by one.
Cyclades islands enjoy a Mediterranean climate, with an average temperature
for the year of 18-19 C.
The winters are mild and the summers - by Greek standards - cool, thanks
to the beneficial effects of the seasonal winds known as the "Meltemia
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