Ancient Thera, Kamari

Name: Ancient Thera
Address: Kamari, Greece
Telephone: +30 2286 023217

#2 among attractions in Kamari

Historical place, Ruins

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Ancient Thera is the name of an ancient perfectly round volcano island now known as Santorini. It was named after the mythical ruler of the island, Theras, and is known to have been inhabited by Greek Minoans as early as the 15th century BC when the volcano erupted resulting in a significant change to the shape of the island and killing many of the Minoan inhabitants. Starting in 1895, Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen systematically investigated the city until 1904. Later excavations by N. Zapheiropoulos between 1961 and 1982, under the auspices of the Archaeological Society of Athens, unearthed the city's necropolis in Sellada. Findings from these excavations are on exhibit at the archaeological museum in Fira. Excavation work was again taken up between 1990 and 1994 under the leadership of Wolfram Hoepfner of the Free University of Berlin and resulted in a more precise understanding of the history of the southern Aegean. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 36°21'49"N, 25°28'42"E

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Kamari Greece

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+30 2286 023217

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Ancient Thera – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Monolithos, Athinios, Santorini cable car, Archaeological Museum of Thera.

3.3 miN
36°24'43"N • 25°28'60"E
Monolithos, Santorini
86 min walk • Beach, Outdoor activities, Park
3.1 miNW
Taxis and shuttles, Nature and wildlife tours, Private tours
Athinios, Akrotiri
80 min walk • Athinios port or simply Athinios is the primary ferry port of Santorini, located approximately 10 km south of the capital Fira.
4.7 miNW
Cable car, Aerial tramway
Santorini cable car, Fira
121 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.
4.7 miNW
Archaeological museum with artifacts
Archaeological Museum of Thera, Santorini
120 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.
4.7 miNW
Church
St. John the Baptist Cathedral, Fira
121 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.
2.4 miNW
Volcanic crater in a picturesque setting
Santorini caldera, Santorini
63 min walk • Santorini caldera is a large, mostly submerged caldera, located in the southern Aegean Sea, 120 kilometers north of Crete in Greece.
1.2 miNW
Church
Panagia Episkopi, Perissa
32 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.
4.8 miW
Beach, Outdoor activities, Park
Red Beach, Akrotiri
122 min walk • 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.
4.4 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Volcano
South Aegean Volcanic Arc, Fira
114 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.
2.5 miNW
36°23'49"N • 25°27'36"E
Koutsoyannopoulos Wine Museum-Winery, Santorini
65 min walk • Museum
4.2 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Volcano
Minoan eruption, Akrotiri
108 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.