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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 ...

The once vibrant agricultural establishment, untouched by later influences, seals the site with its simple aesthetics: threshing floors and wells, ovens and the internal configuration of the house (location of home, built-in beds, etc.), the stone path crossing. … Stone, as a building material, is difficult to distinguish from the natural surroundings, forming a complex picture, in all the simplicity of its traditional folk architecture. ...

Amorgos is famous for its beaches and the pure waters. These beaches were chosen by Luc Besson as scenery of his movie, The Big Blue. Main beaches on Amorgos are Katapola and Aegialis...

The lighthouse Katapola (vathi in Amorgos was built in 1882.) It’s one of the oldest lighthouses of the Greek lighthouse network. Νowadays there are the ruins of the old tower Amorgos is the easternmost Cycladic island, located southeast of Naxos and northwest of Astypalaia. It is an oblong island with successive massifs. On the western coast, there are few leeward creeks (the ports of Katapola ...

The Monaster of Panaghia Hozoviotissa, an architectural masterpiece, was founded by the Emperor Alexius Commenius I in the 11th century...

Mr. Nikitas, coffee maker in Kolofana, remembers the shipwreck of “Olympia”, which impressed so much Luc Besson, that he selects it for setting in“Le grand bleu”