Yannis Divramis 
Amorgos is a long, spread-out island with two ports at opposite ends and its whitewashed capital on the ridge between, so where you stay shapes your visit. The three main bases are Katapola, the central port and easiest first-time choice. Aegiali. The northern bay with the best beach and the mountain villages. And Chora, the … Read more
Amorgos has a long, cliff-bound coast whose finest coves, sea caves and islets are cut off from every road, and boat trips are the way to reach them. In summer, small boats and caiques run from the harbours to the clear-water beaches of the islet of Nikouria. The coves near Katapola and the wild southern … Read more
Chora is the capital of Amorgos, a classic Cycladic town set high on the island’s spine some four hundred metres above the sea. Safe from the pirates who once raided the coast. A car-free maze of whitewashed lanes, blue-domed churches and shaded squares, crowned by a ruined Venetian castle and ringed by old windmills. It … Read more
Amorgos is one of the finest hiking islands in the Cyclades, a long, mountainous ridge laced with old stone paths that climb between the sea and the sky. Its waymarked network of trails, the Blue Paths, follows the ancient kalderimia that once linked every village, crossing terraces. Ridges and cliffs high above an intensely blue … Read more
The Hozoviotissa Monastery is the emblem of Amorgos, a dazzling white monastery pressed into a sheer cliff hundreds of metres above the sea below the capital Chora. Eight storeys high yet only metres wide, it clings to the rock face of Mount Profitis Ilias like a swallow’s nest. One of the most dramatic religious buildings … Read more
The beaches of Amorgos are not long golden sands but dramatic, crystal-clear coves set beneath towering cliffs, the wild coast that Luc Besson chose for The Big Blue. From the pebbly turquoise of Agia Anna below the monastery to the cave-backed water of Mouros. The sandy bays of Aegiali and the boat-only coves of the … Read more
Amorgos is the wild, mountainous edge of the Cyclades, a long ridge of an island rising steeply from a deep blue sea far to the east of the archipelago. It is best known as the setting of Luc Besson’s film The Big Blue. Its draws are dramatic: the cliff-hanging Hozoviotissa Monastery, crystalline diving coves. An … Read more
Palaiopolis was the ancient capital of Andros, the island’s only city through the Classical era, occupying a dramatic terraced position on the west coast above the sea. Founded in the Archaic period and destroyed in late antiquity, part of it sliding into the sea. It is reached today by a long flight of old stone … Read more
For a small Cycladic island, Andros has an exceptional cultural depth. Led by the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Goulandris Foundation, whose summer exhibitions have shown Picasso, Matisse and Kandinsky. Around it, the Archaeological Museum with its celebrated Hermes of Andros. The Maritime Museum and the Olive Museum make the island a cultural destination … Read more
Andros is a large, mountainous island whose beaches. Villages and trailheads lie far apart and are served by only a handful of buses a day. For most visitors a hire car is the key to seeing it. Renting a car turns the scattered highlights of the island, the wild northern beaches. The spring villages and … Read more