AMORGOS ISLAND GREECE

Amorgos is one of the islands GriecheCyclades, which are convenient into the southeast of the Aegean sea 136 nautical miles of the mainland gate of Piraeus. It is easternmost island Cycladic, nearly in the Archipelago Dodecanese away by the west coast of Turkey. Its distance from the mainland Greece and the refusal from the Islanders to succumbing allurements mass tourism protected Amorgos against overcommercialization. It is one AEG to secret jewel - the paradies for hikers, Honeymooners and those, which look for a taste of the "material Greece". There is no airport here and the ferry journey of Piraeus amounts to gruelling 10 hours (thus you forget not the seasickness tablets if the rough water). There is a weekly fly dolphin service after and from the mainland gate cost by Rafina, which cuts your travel time to the half, but you twice so much. Daily ferries attach the island with Naxos, Koufonisia, Shinousa, Iraklia and Paros and are less frequent services there to most other hauptInseln Cycladic. The island has two gates - Katapola and Aegiali - and most ferry call at both however at the examination in advance the fact that this is the case and examines you to receive at the right away because they are a travel of the bus 30-minute apart. The gates are, where the majority of the holiday adjustment is to be found and there is much of it, because tourism began, on Amorgos tranquil and unspoilt the Inselremains in the last years to remove mercifully. It is become trendy a visiting place there the release of the French film of the Cult the large blue 1988. The classical author Luc Besson over two fiercely competitive divers was shot partly at Amorgos and the wreck of the Olympus away of the west coast of the island marks. Other one of the requirements of the island to the fame is that it was the inspiration for a poem by Nikos Gatsos, that than one of the largest Greek poets 20. Century one regarded. It wrote the poem, mentioned after the island, during 2. World war on the height of the hunger, which dezimierte the population of Greece among Nazis. It was its largest at all work and was on that postwar production of the Greek poets very largely influential. The principal places of the interest on the island include the attractive HauptHora with its pictorial houses, narrow Wicklungsalleyways and venetianischen lock also. The extraordinary Monastery Hozoviotissis, which is established into the side of a cliff on the east coast of the island, is the most impressive sight in the whole one of the Cyclades. And for stories buffalo leathers there are the ruins of an old civilization Minoan and the handle of Apollo. Before the island allegedly the summer domicile of the king was Minos of Crete unites 4,000 years. Most visitors come to relax on uncrowded the beaches, sip ouzo or the two simply and during away the hours in a traditional Seasidetaverna.

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