Minoan eruption, Akrotiri

Name: Minoan eruption
Address: Akrotiri, Greece

#4 among attractions in Akrotiri

Nature, Natural attraction, Volcano

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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. With a VEI magnitude between 6 and 7, resulting in an ejection of approximately 60 km³ of dense-rock equivalent, the eruption was one of the largest volcanic events on Earth in human history. ()

Local name: Μινωική έκρηξη Coordinates: 36°21'5"N, 25°24'13"E

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Minoan eruption – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

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

2.6 miW
Lighthouse
Akrotiri Lighthouse, Akrotiri
67 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.
2.9 miNE
Taxis and shuttles, Nature and wildlife tours, Private tours
Athinios, Akrotiri
73 min walk • Athinios port or simply Athinios is the primary ferry port of Santorini, located approximately 10 km south of the capital Fira.
4.9 miN
Cable car, Aerial tramway
Santorini cable car, Fira
126 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.
5 miN
Archaeological museum with artifacts
Archaeological Museum of Thera, Santorini
127 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.
5 miN
Church
St. John the Baptist Cathedral, Fira
128 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.
4.3 miNE
Volcanic crater in a picturesque setting
Santorini caldera, Santorini
111 min walk • Santorini caldera is a large, mostly submerged caldera, located in the southern Aegean Sea, 120 kilometers north of Crete in Greece.
3.8 miNE
Church
Panagia Episkopi, Perissa
98 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.
0.6 miSW
Beach, Outdoor activities, Park
Red Beach, Akrotiri
15 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.
4.8 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Volcano
South Aegean Volcanic Arc, Fira
123 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.
4.4 miNE
36°23'49"N • 25°27'36"E
Koutsoyannopoulos Wine Museum-Winery, Santorini
114 min walk • Museum
3.3 miNE
Locality
Pyrgos, Santorini
86 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.