A very beautiful almost mythical. Beginning today an atmospheric journey.
It’s the island of Amorgos getting its endless blue, Amorgos getting its energy fields, its glittering light, that is poetic beauty.
The location of Amorgos, the birthplace within the poetry combined with the poet Nikos Gatsos.
Round the south finish within the Cyclades but in the heart of the Aegean Archipelagos. Every single day tour on among the special islands from the visit to a vacation in a holiday in greece.
7: oo am.
Because the day’s first-day boat departs from Aegiali, heading West for your Cyclades and Piraeus. We guess across the faces within the passengers the chance finish in the vacation, which sweet fatigue that leaves a enjoyable trip when the reaches its finish. However, our day tour in Amorgos just begun.
8:40 am, East of Cyclades
Amorgos, it’s pointed out it needed its name inside the “Amorgis” plant as a type of flax that Amorgos tunics were created off. It’s offered at north of manchester finish within the Cyclades, after Naxos along with the Small Cyclades. With two natural harbors, Katapola and Aegiali, along with an incredibly beautiful “hora”, possibly the most amazing within the Cyclades, Amorgos appear to intersect the Aegean Ocean that is vastness.
9:35 am, the Amorgian Pastel
Beginning our day obtaining a sweet the traditional Amorgian pasteli along with a Greek coffee clearly.
Amorgos is famous for many traditional and favorite products for example pasteli, rose-sugar, raki, raki…
Rose Sugar could be a unique product produced from wild rose petals that blossom in May which are kneaded with sugar and lemon. Pastel consists of honey and sesame seeds. It’s the sweet offered on lemon balm, in situation of baptism and celebrations, always supported with raki.
10:42 am, the “Captain Morgan” within the Cyclades
French love Amorgos and Amorgos french. During this extended-lasting relationship of affection and mutual respect, the storyplot of Bertrand shines. Bertrand from Amorgos created a extended journey to numerous the planet to come back together with his boat to Amorgos. Today he organizes cruises obtaining a conventional-boat within the Aegean, they views a fantastic choice for such journeys.
12:15 pm, somewhat nearer to God.
Go to the monastery of Ag. Georgios of Valsamitis.
An area where ancient occasions, Orthodoxy, a famous watermill, the god Apollo, Saint George, water that foretells what will happen later on, along with the constant look for the reality, exist altogether. Within the eighth century, an emblem was discovered in individuals days and for that reason a monastery was built. Today it’s a location of spiritual uplifting, tranquility, tranquility and internal search.
13:30 pm A extended journey within the “chora”
The main city within the island, “chora” of Amorgos features the classic Cycladic beauty with narrow, cobbled roads, whitewashed two-floor houses, arches, as well as other church structures. The appearance is finished with immaculate white-colored-colored-colored, very nearly blue sky along with the loud, warm colors within the bougainvillea.
Several of these are known and beloved within our Cycladic color plan.
Another characteristic may be the typical hill with windmills, which gaze out within the Aegean Ocean.
A big contradiction in case you think about the many years of pirate raids. These winding, narrow roads, this maze within the “chora” offered then to depart of occupants, who ran and lost in here to depart inside the pirates.
14:45 pm, Picking out a history
A on a vacation folk museum, in which the island’s historic archives are available. This archive remains collected over many decades and possesses been digitized recently. The archive has documents from 300 previously.
Within the documents, it’s reflected the existence-style within the occupants within the island along with the changes that intervened with the centuries. Important historic details and figures regarding the older picture of Amorgos can also be on these pages of files. Additionally, there are recorded, natural phenomena and disasters affecting the landscape nevertheless the economy – society within the island.
