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On Sunday, 24th of June, the Amorgos Municipality, with the help of the Cultural Association of Tholaria and SKY channel, will clean up the Mikri Vlihada beach

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 ...

The 10th International Conference on Culture and Tourism YPERIA 2012 on Amorgos.

Dimitris Artemis, known to most of those who visited the Small Cyclades and especially the Koufonisia as the “shepherd of Keros”, died on January the 24th, 2012, and was buried in his little homeland, “Potamos of Amorgos”. That’s how I met him myself, about thirty years ago, we became friends and I devoted more than a few writings to him and the island, Keros. At ...

Yesterday afternoon (22-9-2011) at Lagada, Amorgos, the truck a 26 year old was driving collided with a motorcycle. The motorcycle, which was riden by a 42 year old local, collided with another motorcycle as a result of the first collision. The second motorbike was riden by a 33 year old foreign national from Albania. Both riders were seriously injured. They were transported by means of ...

The female dolphin Josephine that starred in Luc Besson's "Big Blue",has passed.

Happy many returns to all. Happy August 15th

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. ...

Elstat released the provisional results of the population census they carried out last May. Across the country, 10,787,690 residents have participated in the census out of whom, 5,303,690 (49,2%) were males and 5,484,000 were females. In the Region of Naxos: Municipality of Naxos and Small Cyclades Total Population: 19.440, Male: 9.770, Female: 9.670  Permanent population density / sq. km.: 39.20 Amorgos Municipality Total Popuplation: 1,940, ...

«The island is not to be sold to Turks» "Little Amorgos" became famous after the news that saw the light of publicity talking about it being sold by the Hellenic country to a Turk businessman.