What a spectacular monastery! Hozoviotissa monastery is built on a cliff’s side on Amorgos, part of the Cyclades islands. The monastery accommodates a few monks and it is also open for visitors everyday. If you visit the island you definitely must climb up the 300 slippery stairs to get there. Make sure though that you are properly dressed. Men should were long trousers and women long ...

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History Chora is the capital of Amorgos. It was founded in the early Byzantine period and developed after the 8th century AD when the population had to move to the interior of the island because of the Saracen raids . Chora has developed around a high, narrow rock on top of which is the castle. The castle was built in the beginning of the 13th ...

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Nikolaos Fostieris was elected Mayor of Amorgos Island from the first round of the Greek local elections of 2014 Measured SECTIONS: 7 / 7 (100.00%) Vote: 1406 / 2305   Valid: 1388   White: 5 [table  width=”95%”  colalign=”left|center|center|center”] Candidate Elections,Percent,Vote,House Seat Fostieris Nikolaos,51.30 %,712,8 Roussos Nikitas,38.83%,539,4 Giannakopoulou Eirini,9.87%,137,1 [/table]

During the Early Cycladic Period (3rd millennium BC), Amorgos was one of the mort important Aegean cultural centres. It had more than 12 fortified acropolises on hilltops and capes (Markiani was the chief one), as well as cemeteries (Dokathismata, Kapsala).

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A 75 year old pensioner from Arkesini, Amorgos, ended his life on the morning of July 30, unable to cope with the devastation brought by his son layoff from National TV station ERT. According to crosschecked testimonials to Naxos News, the man was unable to face the fact that his married son -who was a father himself- was laid off from work and that he ...

I had two reasons for coming to Greece – if it makes sense to need reasons to take a late spring break in the sunny and little-visited Small Cyclades. First, to have a few days of father/son bonding with Felix. Ten years old seemed about the perfect age: young enough to wonder at the newness of things, mature enough to translate this wonder into conversation. ...

A helicopter appeared last month through the mists that often engulf Greece’s far-flung isle of Amorgos. Two figures, one on a stretcher, waited as the chopper, carrying an emergency medical team, made several abortive attempts to land. When, finally, it touched down on a grassy knoll beneath Amorgos’s hillside capital, doctors rushed to attend to the man on the gurney. “It was 2:30am and we ...