The Byzantine monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa is a timeless jewel of religious and historical importance for Amorgos. Rich in historical relics with a distinctive architecture, it gathers a crowd of visitors who are astonished to climb 300 steps to the heart of the theoretic rocks to worship and
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The tower of Agia Triada (or Basil's tower) a well-preserved ancient monument of Amorgos and the best preserved tower of this type in the Cyclades. It is located in the district of Arkesini, near the settlement "Sto Chorio", on a low hill. It is a complex consisting of a house, part of the
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The Tower of Gavras, in Chora of Amorgos, was granted in 1963 by the Amorgian woman Sofi Giannakou to the Association of Amorgines in order to house the Archaeological Collection of the island. Today, the Gavras Tower houses the important Archaeological Collection of Amorgos, which until 1971
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Chora, with 330 inhabitants, is the capital of Amorgos, built in the center of the island on the SE side of Mount Prophet Ilias between small hills, invisible from the sea for fear of pirates, who in ancient times were the scourge of the islands . The beautiful Cycladic architecture, the many
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In the area of Aigialis (Gialis) which was a colony of the Milesians and one of the three cities of the ancient commonwealth, there are remains of Roman fortifications on the beach and an ancient sanctuary on the site of the Panagitsa church. Also in the same area one can visit Tholaria, where an
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Ancient Minoa included the central part of the island with the current villages of Chora and Katapola. In Katapola, one of the best protected natural harbors of the Cyclades, at the top of the hill of Moudoulia, the ruins of the Minoan settlement, founded by Samian settlers in the 7th century BC,
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