Website design By BotEap.comAn almost mythical island. We begin today an atmospheric journey.

Website design By BotEap.comIt is the island of Amorgos with its infinite blue, Amorgos with its energy fields, its brilliant light and its poetic beauty.

Website design By BotEap.comThe island of Amorgos, cradle of poetry and the poet Nikos Gatsos.

Website design By BotEap.comLocated at the southern tip of the Cyclades but in the heart of the Aegean archipelagos. A day tour in one of the special islands of Greece.

Website design By BotEap.com7:00 am.

Website design By BotEap.comAs the day’s first day boat leaves Aegiali, it heads west towards the Cyclades and Piraeus. We guess in the faces of the passengers the possible end of their vacations, and that sweet tiredness that a nice trip leaves you when it comes to an end. However, our one day tour in Amorgos has just started.

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Website design By BotEap.comAmorgos, it is said that it took its name from the “Amorgis” plant as a kind of linen with which Amorgos’ tunics were made. It is located in the extreme north of the Cyclades, after Naxos and the Small Cyclades. With two natural ports, Katapola and Aegiali, and an incredibly beautiful “hour”, one of the most beautiful in the Cyclades, Amorgos seems to intersect with the Aegean Sea and its immensity.

Website design By BotEap.com9:35 a.m., the Amorgian Cake

Website design By BotEap.comWe start our day with a sweet treat, the traditional Amorgian pasteli and, of course, a Greek coffee.

Website design By BotEap.comAmorgos is famous for some traditional and favorite products like pasteli, rose-sugar, raki, raki…

Website design By BotEap.comRose Sugar is a unique product made from wild rose petals that bloom in May that are kneaded with sugar and lemon. Cake is made with honey and sesame seeds. It is the sweet that is offered on lemon balm, in the case of baptisms and celebrations, always accompanied by raki.

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Website design By BotEap.comThe French love Amorgos and Amorgos the French. In this lasting relationship of love and mutual respect, the story of Bertrand stands out. Bertrand de Amorgos made a long journey to almost the whole world to return with his ship to Amorgos. Today he organizes cruises with a traditional boat in the Aegean, which he considers the best place for this type of trip.

Website design By BotEap.com12:15 pm, a little closer to God.

Website design By BotEap.comVisit to the monastery of Ag. Georgios de Valsamitis.

Website design By BotEap.comA point where antiquity, orthodoxy, a famous water mill, the god Apollo, Saint George, the water that predicts what will happen in the future and the constant search for the truth coexist. In the 8th century, an icon was found at that point and a monastery was built. Today it is a place of spiritual elevation, tranquility, serenity and inner search.

Website design By BotEap.com1:30 p.m. A long ride on the “chora“

Website design By BotEap.comThe capital of the island, “chora” of Amorgos, presents the classic beauty of the Cyclades with narrow cobbled streets, whitewashed two-story houses, arches and countless churches. The picture is completed by immaculate white, an almost crystal blue sky and the strong and warm colors of the bougainvillea.

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Website design By BotEap.comAnother feature is the typical hill with windmills, which overlook the Aegean Sea.

Website design By BotEap.comA great contradiction if the years of pirate raids are taken into account. These narrow and winding streets, this labyrinth of the “chora” then served to escape the inhabitants, who ran and got lost here to escape the pirates.

Website design By BotEap.com14:45 Meeting with history

Website design By BotEap.comVisit to the folkloric museum, where the historical archives of the island are located. This archive has been collected over many decades and has been digitized in recent years. The archive has documents from 300 years ago.

Website design By BotEap.comThe documents reflect the lifestyle of the island’s inhabitants and the changes that took place over the centuries. Important historical facts and figures about the oldest image of Amorgós are also found on these archive pages. You can even find registered natural phenomena and disasters that affect the landscape but also the economy – society of the island.

Website design By BotEap.com15:45, Saint Anne and the Virgin Mary of Hozoviotissa

Website design By BotEap.comSaint Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary, and the Virgin Mary symbolically meets here on the east side of the island.

Website design By BotEap.comWe are talking about the famous little chapel of St. Anne and the famous beach, with fantastic aquamarine colors of the water that formed the natural backdrop for the Luc Mpesson film “Big Blue”. Ag. Anna seems to be here in an ongoing conversation with the Monastery of the Virgin Mary of Hozoviotissa, which stands for nine centuries perched there on the steep hillside.

Website design By BotEap.comAmorgos is famous for its hiking trails. The most famous route is the climb to the Hozoviotissa Monastery, 300 steps and many scales to enjoy this sensational view that will take your breath away. Stand here and admire the vastness of the world on one of the biggest and best balconies.

Website design By BotEap.com4:20 p.m. Facing the Aegean Sea, in search of God

Website design By BotEap.comBuilt defying the landscape, and at the same time extolling the greatness of the world, hooked on steep rocks, the Hozoviotissa Monastery seems miraculously prepared.

Website design By BotEap.comIt seems to be balanced on a thin rope that separates the material world from the spiritual hymn to human will and faith. Almost against natural laws, a meteor in the Aegean. Meteor like the thousands of unanswered questions of humanity. The monastery was built in 1088 and the occasion of its inauguration was to find the icon of the Virgin Mary that came here from Hozhova in Palestine, a place close to the Holy Land and Jericho.

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Website design By BotEap.com18:30 Vespers and Castle

Website design By BotEap.comWe return to the “chora” and it is time for Vespers.

Website design By BotEap.comThen visit the many churches in the “chora” and we head towards the Castle that dominates on the rock in the middle of the town.

Website design By BotEap.comIt has been there since the 13th century. It is a Venetian building. At the top of the cliff, a steep staircase built on the north side will take you, while to exit the Castle you first pass through the chapel of Ag. George. From the Castle the view is now panoramic and reaches as far as Naxos, the small Cyclades and IOS. From this point, the inhabitants could control the sea of ​​Naxos and Astypalaia.

Website design By BotEap.com9:45 p.m., “Amorgiano gentle perasm»

Website design By BotEap.comStop at the cafeteria with traditional music performed by young musicians. Amorgos is famous for organized revelry at every opportunity…

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