"Pearl of Egea Sea" a Santorini Island Travel Page by zindara

Santorini is not just a piece of land in the sea. It is brown and green, white and blue... it hides beautiful beaches as well as high cliffs, windmiles and churches, narrow streets, white houses going down the cliffs, blue roofs in churches, blue sea, red sunsets... an incredible mix of colors that makes it a paradise.

Four thousand years ago, Santorini was a circular island. The island exploded in an enormous volcanic eruption. The resulting wave is belived to be the responsible of destroying the Minoan civilization in Crete (some km. far away from Mykonos).
The resulting land was ring-shaped with two small breaks and the sea rushed in to fill the new caldera in the center. Today, Santorini consists of two facing crescent shaped islands: Thira and Thirassia. In the 18th century, volcanic activity produced a couple new islands in the center of the caldera, Nea and Paleo Kameni. The small island visible past Thira is Aspronissi. Today, only Thira and Thirassia are inhabited.