amorgos travel guide

Amorgos Travel Guide – Best of Amorgos Island: History, beaches, places to visit & more.     …The landscape of Amorgos invites dramatic settings. Few other islands combine as [...]

General The grand landscapes of Amorgos are full of dramatic settings. A long human presence on the island has left many monuments and settlements behind, all of them characterised by sites of [...]

History Settlement began on Amorgos in the late 5th millennium bc at the hill-top of Minoa where obsidian from Milos and Late Neolithic clay vessels have been found. The 3rd millennium bc marks [...]

The Bay of Katapola (For distances in text, Katapola port = 0.0km) Already from the approaching boat, the dramatic silhouette of the island anticipates the nature of its landscape. Like Ikaria or [...]

Ancient Minoa A path from the top of the habitation in Katapola leads up the hill of Minoa to the church of Aghios Phanourios and then on up the winding track to the archaeological site (30 [...]

Chora Chora (5.2km) lies in a plateau at a height of 320m above sea level, invisible from the port and just below the water shed above the precipitous eastern side of the island. In the early [...]

The Monastery of the Chozoviotissa A half-hour’s walk by the road south of Chora, which rises to the watershed and then drops dramatically down the eastern side above the sea, brings you to one [...]

Aghios Giorgios Varsamitis, Stavros, Markiani and Kamari From Chora the road to the south of the island closely follows the watershed of the island with magnificent views alternating to either [...]

Ancient Arkesine The northward branch of the asphalt road from Kamari ends after 1km at the village of Vroutsi (17.5km), from where it is a steep, 30-minute descent by foot to the site of Ancient [...]

Ancient tower at Aghia Triada Much of the wealth of Arkesine depended on its protected and cultivable hinterland—especially the alluvial Kato Meria plateau, now occupied by the modern settlement [...]