Athinios, Akrotiri

Name: Athinios
Address: Νέος Λιμένας Θήρας, Akrotiri, 847 00, Greece
Telephone: +30 694 079 2211

#2 among attractions in Akrotiri

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Facts and practical information

Athinios port or simply Athinios is the primary ferry port of Santorini, located approximately 10 km south of the capital Fira. It is the only port on Santorini with regular passenger ferry services linking the island to Athenian port of Piraeus, Cyclades and Crete. Athinios is surrounded by steep, multi-colored volcanic cliffs, along which a road winds to the top, zigzagging backwards and forward. ()

Local name: Όρμος Αθηνιού Θήρας Coordinates: 36°23'13"N, 25°25'48"E

Address

Νέος Λιμένας ΘήραςAkrotiri 847 00 Greece

Contact

+30 694 079 2211

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Day trips

Athinios – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Three Bells, Santorini cable car, Archaeological Museum of Thera, St. John the Baptist Cathedral.

2.7 miN
View point
Three Bells, Fira
68 min walk • The Three Bells of Fira, officially known as The Catholic Church of the Dormition, is a Greek Catholic church on the island of Santorini. The church is famed for its three bells, blue dome, and picturesque views. The building is located in the town of Fira, directly above the cliffs which dominate western Santorini.
2.3 miN
Cable car, Aerial tramway
Santorini cable car, Fira
58 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.
2.3 miN
Archaeological museum with artifacts
Archaeological Museum of Thera, Santorini
59 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.
2.3 miN
Church
St. John the Baptist Cathedral, Fira
59 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.
1.7 miE
Volcanic crater in a picturesque setting
Santorini caldera, Santorini
45 min walk • Santorini caldera is a large, mostly submerged caldera, located in the southern Aegean Sea, 120 kilometers north of Crete in Greece.
2 miE
Church
Panagia Episkopi, Perissa
52 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.
2.1 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Volcano
South Aegean Volcanic Arc, Fira
53 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.
1.8 miNE
36°23'49"N • 25°27'36"E
Koutsoyannopoulos Wine Museum-Winery, Santorini
46 min walk • Museum
2.9 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Volcano
Minoan eruption, Akrotiri
73 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.
1.1 miE
Locality
Pyrgos, Santorini
29 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.
2.2 miN
Museum, Archaeological museum
Museum of Prehistoric Thera, Santorini
57 min walk • The Museum of Prehistoric Thera is located in Fira, on the island of Santorini in Greece. It was built on the site of the old Ypapanti Church which was destroyed in the 1956 Amorgos earthquake.