Castle of Akrotiri, Akrotiri

Name: Castle of Akrotiri
Address: Akrotiri, Greece

#5 among attractions in Akrotiri

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The Castle of Akrotiri, also known as Castle Akrotiri, Goulas or La Ponta, is a former Venetian castle on the Greek island of Santorini. The now-ruined castle lies at the center of the village of Akrotiri. ()

Architectural style: Medieval architectureCoordinates: 36°21'60"N, 25°25'60"E

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Castle of Akrotiri – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

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

1.4 miN
Taxis and shuttles, Nature and wildlife tours, Private tours
Athinios, Akrotiri
36 min walk • Athinios port or simply Athinios is the primary ferry port of Santorini, located approximately 10 km south of the capital Fira.
3.7 miN
Cable car, Aerial tramway
Santorini cable car, Fira
94 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.
3.7 miN
Archaeological museum with artifacts
Archaeological Museum of Thera, Santorini
94 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.
3.7 miN
Church
St. John the Baptist Cathedral, Fira
95 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.
2.5 miNE
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.
1.9 miNE
Church
Panagia Episkopi, Perissa
48 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.
2.5 miSW
Beach, Outdoor activities, Park
Red Beach, Akrotiri
65 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.
3.5 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Volcano
South Aegean Volcanic Arc, Fira
89 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.
2.6 miNE
36°23'49"N • 25°27'36"E
Koutsoyannopoulos Wine Museum-Winery, Santorini
66 min walk • Museum
2 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Volcano
Minoan eruption, Akrotiri
50 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.
1.4 miNE
Locality
Pyrgos, Santorini
37 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.