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
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
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
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