Red Beach, Akrotiri
#3 among attractions in Akrotiri
Facts and practical information
Red Beach is a volcanic sand beach on the Aegean island of Santorini. The beach is famed for its titular red-hued sand, and is a noted for being popular tourist attraction. ()
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Red Beach – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)
Nearby attractions include: Akrotiri Lighthouse, Athinios, Santorini cable car, Archaeological Museum of Thera.
LighthouseAkrotiri Lighthouse, Akrotiri
57 min walk • Akrotiri Lighthouse is a 19th-century lighthouse on the Greek island of Santorini. The lighthouse was built by a French company in 1892, making the lighthouse one of the oldest in Greece. The lighthouse ceased operating during World War II. The Greek Navy recommissioned the lighthouse in 1945.
Taxis and shuttles, Nature and wildlife tours, Private toursAthinios, Akrotiri
86 min walk • Athinios port or simply Athinios is the primary ferry port of Santorini, located approximately 10 km south of the capital Fira.
Cable car, Aerial tramwaySantorini cable car, Fira
137 min walk • The Santorini cable car connects the port with the town of Thera in Santorini island in Greece. It was constructed as a donation of the “Loula & Evangelos Nomikos Foundation”. The cable car, technically a pulsed Gondola lift, was built by Doppelmayr, has a capacity of 1,200 people per hour. The journey takes 3 minutes.
Archaeological museum with artifactsArchaeological Museum of Thera, Santorini
138 min walk • The Archaeological Museum of Thera is a museum in Fira, Santorini, Greece. It was built in 1960 to replace an older one which had collapsed by the 1956 Amorgos earthquake.
ChurchSt. John the Baptist Cathedral, Fira
139 min walk • The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Fira, on the island of Santorini in Greece. It serves as the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santorini which was created in 1204.
Volcanic crater in a picturesque settingSantorini caldera, Santorini
125 min walk • Santorini caldera is a large, mostly submerged caldera, located in the southern Aegean Sea, 120 kilometers north of Crete in Greece.
ChurchPanagia Episkopi, Perissa
112 min walk • The Panagia Episkopi is the previous middle-Byzantine cathedral of the Greek Cycladean island of Santorini. It is also called Panagia tis Episkopis or Church of Episkopi Thiras.
Nature, Natural attraction, VolcanoSouth Aegean Volcanic Arc, Fira
134 min walk • The South Aegean Volcanic Arc is a volcanic arc in the South Aegean Sea formed by plate tectonics. The prior cause was the subduction of the African plate beneath the Eurasian plate, raising the Aegean arc across what is now the north Aegean Sea.
Nature, Natural attraction, VolcanoMinoan eruption, Akrotiri
15 min walk • The Minoan eruption was a catastrophic volcanic eruption that devastated the Aegean island of Thera in around 1600 BCE. It destroyed the Minoan settlement at Akrotiri, as well as communities and agricultural areas on nearby islands and the coast of Crete with subsequent earthquakes and tsunamis.
LocalityPyrgos, Santorini
100 min walk • Pyrgos Kallistis or simply Pyrgos is a village on the Aegean island of Santorini, Greece, in the Cyclades archipelago with a population of 912 according to the 2011 census.
Aegean