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Santorini caldera is a large, mostly submerged caldera, located in the southern Aegean Sea, 120 kilometers north of Crete in Greece. Visible above water is the circular Santorini island group, consisting of Santorini (classic Greek Thera ), the main island, Therasia and Aspronisi at the periphery, and the Kameni islands at the center.
The Minoan eruption was a catastrophic volcanic eruption that devastated the Aegean island of Thera (also called Santorini) circa 1600 BCE. [2] [3] It destroyed the Minoan settlement at Akrotiri, as well as communities and agricultural areas on nearby islands and the coast of Crete with subsequent earthquakes and paleotsunamis. [4]
Santorini ( Greek: Σαντορίνη, romanized : Santoríni, pronounced [sa (n)doˈrini] ), officially Thira (Greek: Θήρα, romanized: Thíra, pronounced [ˈθira]) or Thera, [ a] is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast from its mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago formed ...
Layout map of Akrotiri in the Bronze Age. Pumice, here: northern shelving coast. Eruption of 165 ka buried it all. Akrotiri (Greek: Ακρωτήρι, pronounced Greek:) is the site of a Cycladic Bronze Age settlement on the volcanic Greek island of Santorini (Thera). The name comes from the nearby village of Akrotiri.
The Santorini Cable Car connects the port with the town of Thera in Santorini island in Greece. It was constructed as a donation of the “Loula & Evangelos Nomikos Foundation”. [ 1 ] The cable car , technically a pulsed Gondola lift , was built by Doppelmayr , has a capacity of 1,200 people per hour (600 per hour in each direction).
Oia, Greece. / 36.467°N 25.367°E / 36.467; 25.367. Oia or Ia ( Greek: Οία, romanized : Oía, pronounced [ˈia] [ 2]) is a small village and former community in the South Aegean on the islands of Thira ( Santorini) and Therasia, in the Cyclades, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it has been part of the municipality of ...
But for many of Santorini's 20,000 permanent residents, the once idyllic island of quaint villages and pristine beaches has been ruined by mass tourism. Greece's Santorini bursts with tourists as ...
The theater is built into the slope below the city. Ancient Thera ( Greek: Αρχαία Θήρα) is the name of an archaeological site [ 1] from classical antiquity [ 2] on the island of Santorini, which sits on the top of a limestone hill called Mesa Vouno. Starting in 1895, Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen systematically investigated the ...