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Wednesday, 07 November 2007
Santorini Travel. Santorini (Fira).  In a sense the most spectacular of the Greek Islands.  Sickle-shaped it curves round a deep bay for eighteen miles so deep is the bay that ships have to moor up to the shore, but the cliffs rise up perpendicularly from the sea to a height o a thousand feet in places.  The volcanic islets oi the Kaemenes are in the centre of the bay, the entrance oi which is guarded to the north-west by the Island of Therasia.

The capital, Fira, is highly picturesque because of the dazzlingly white houses, the Catholic cathedral, and the views over the bay.  The rains of the ancient town of Thera have some analogy with those of Pompeii, for the outlines of streets and houses can be clearly discerned.  Here as at Delos, there were temples dedicated to the Eastern gods for the benefit ol Syrian and Egyptian visitors.




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