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Santorini boasts a number of local products whose unique flavor is attributed to the island’s volcanic soil. Don’t leave Santorini without trying… Cherry tomato Santorini’s cherry tomato is a unique local variety whose roots -or, rather, seeds- are found in Egypt. Santorini’s volcanic soil,...

Where is the volcano?

Almost everybody knows that Santorini’s unusual beauty is the result of a volcanic eruption but, once you are on the island, it is hard to tell where that volcano actually is. Santorini as we know it today, is the result of four volcanic eruptions the last of which occurred in 1620 BC. This final...

Saint Matrona and other panigiri festivals

Saint Matrona’s festival takes place on October 20 in Finikia and is one of Santorini’s most popular panigiria, as these open air celebrations are called in Greece. Saint Matrona’s church is decorated with palm leaves on the eve of the celebration and the religious icon that depicts the saint is...

Diving in Santorini: a dramatic underwater landscape

Santorini’s seabottom is a combination of “crystal clear waters and dramatically impressive underwater landscapes”, as Pierre Yves Cousteau put it. It was forty years ago that his father, oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, explored the depths of Santorini in search of the lost city of Atlantis. The...

Three small museums to visit in Santorini

Argyros Mansion Museum, Messaria The elegant mansion that houses this museum was built in 1888 by local craftsmen, who had taken part in building important neoclassical mansions in what then was the newly founded capital city of Athens. It was the main residence of the family of George Argyros, who...