Amorgos hiking

Hiking in Amorgos: A Guide to the Blue Paths and Best Trails

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The bay of Aegiali and its villages seen from the mountain trails above Tholaria on Amorgos

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

Things to Do in Amorgos: The Best Experiences

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The white Hozoviotissa Monastery pressed into a sheer cliff below Chora on Amorgos

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