milos travel guide

General The history of Aegean civilisation is driven by trade, and the first commodity ever to be traded on a large scale among its islands was obsidian from Milos, used for making tools, weapons [...]

History Obsidian from Milos begins to appear at sites on the mainland of Greece (the Franchthi cave) from as early as 9000 bc, suggesting the earliest beginnings of a seaborne ‘trade’ from the [...]

Adamas and Environs As the boat leaves the open sea and turns in towards the port of Milos, you enter one of the largest natural havens in the Aegean—in reality a flooded volcanic caldera. To the [...]

Plaka The main road north from Adamas leads inland to the contiguous settlements of Plaka, Trypiti­ and Triovasalos. Immediately before the road begins to wind steeply up a scarp, an unmade road [...]

Kastro Overlooking Plaka itself from above on the north side are the remains of the Venetian Kastro, originally built in the 13th century and subsequently enlarged and modified in the 16th [...]

The catacombs Trypiti­ is the southern extension of Plaka, a village which winds attractively along a ridge overlooking the entrance into Milos Bay. Its name comes from the word ‘τρυπητός’, [...]

Ancient Melos The entrance to the catacombs lay outside the eastern limit of the ancient city of Melos, which spread around the hill of Prophiis Eli­as, 400m to the west. The area and its remains [...]

Klima From the (southeastern) end of the village of Trypiti­ a road leads steeply down to the waterside at * Klima. (The harbour can also be reached by a stepped path from below the west side of [...]

Triovasalos & the north coast harbours To the east of Plaka and Trypiti­, and virtually contiguous with them, are the villages of Triovasalos and Pera Triovasalos, separated from one another [...]

Phylakopi (Adamas = 0.0km for distances in text)The inland branch-road from the junction just beyond the Museum of Mining, 1km east of Adamas, leads across to the north coast of the island and [...]