#1 of 24 Things To Do in Santorini
Nea Kameni Volcano
Santorini Island
~0.02 miles from Santorini city center
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Nea Kameni is a small uninhabited Greek island of volcanic origin located within the flooded caldera of Santorini. Nea Kameni and the neighbouring small island Palea Kameni (the new and old 'burnt islands') have formed over the past two millennia by repeated eruptions of dacite lava and ash. Major eruptions over the past 300 years took place in 1707-1712, 1866-1870, 1925-1928, and 1939-1941. The last small eruption happened in 1950, and involved lava dome extrusion.
Nea Kameni is nearly round and has a diameter of approximately 2 kilometers and an area of 3.4 kilometers2. Nea Kameni is monitored closely by scientists from the Institute for the Study and Monitoring of the Santorini Volcano (ISMOSAV[3]), and is a protected scientific site.
The nearly barren island is visited daily by dozens of tourist boats throughout the summer. The visitors take a well maintained gravel path to the 130-meter-high volcanic crater, from which wisps of a sulfurous steam rise, transforming the environment in places into a "yellow wasteland".
The island is arid but there is a carpet of red grassy succulents on the thin soil in summer.
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#2 of 24 Things To Do in Santorini
Palea Volcano
Santorini Island
~1.16 miles from Santorini city center
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#3 of 24 Things To Do in Santorini
Orthodox Metropolitan Cathedral
Santorini Island
~2.18 miles from Santorini city center
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#4 of 24 Things To Do in Santorini
Petros M. Nomikos Conference Centre
Santorini Island
~2.21 miles from Santorini city center
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#5 of 24 Things To Do in Santorini
Museum of Prehistoric Thira
Santorini Island
~2.21 miles from Santorini city center
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The new Museum of Prehistoric Thira (or Thera), which opened in 2000, has several frescoes and finds from Ancient Akrotiri, along with many objects imported from Crete and the northeastern Aegean Islands.
Some of the pots on display - cups, jugs and pithoi - are delicately painted with motifs familiar from the wall paintings. Note the fresco fragments with the painted swallows (who flocked here because they loved the cliffs) and the women in Minoan dresses. Fossilized olive leaves from 60,000 BC prove the olive to be indigenous.
It's best to visit both the Museum of Prehistoric Thira and the archaeological site at Ancient Akrotiri - in the same day, if possible.
At present, the museum occupies only a small part of its building, and expansions are anticipated in the near future.
Quick Facts
Names: Museum of Prehistoric Thira; Museum of Prehistoric Thera
Location: Mitropoleos, behind Orthodox Cathedral and across the street from the bus stop, Fira, Greece
Phone: 22860/22-217
Hours: Tues-Sun 8:30am-3pm
Cost: 2€ combination ticket to this museum and the Archaeological Museum
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#6 of 24 Things To Do in Santorini
Wall Paintings of Thira Exhibition
Santorini Island
~2.22 miles from Santorini city center
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#7 of 24 Things To Do in Santorini
Catholic Cathedral
Santorini Island
~2.25 miles from Santorini city center
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The Catholic Cathedral is situated in the Catholic quarter of Fira. The church and its bell tower were rebuilt after the terrible earthquake of 1956.
Considered as one of the most beautiful of the island, the Catholic Cathedral is dedicated to St. John the Baptist.
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#8 of 24 Things To Do in Santorini
Dominican Convent
Santorini Island
~2.25 miles from Santorini city center
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Santorini Dominican Convent: The Dominican convent is ideally located in the predominantly catholic quarters of Fira, the capital of the island of Santorini. The Convent is home to twelve nuns who come from twelve different countries. It isn’t that difficult to locate the Dominican Convent as it is located in the city center.
It is a much-venerated Convent for people belonging to the Christian faith. Inside the Convent, there is a church – the “Rozario Church” which is conspicuous by its marvelous traditional Santorini architectural brilliance.
The church’s baroque features have attracted the attention of historians and archaeologists. In fact a visit to this magnificent Convent offers fascinating insight into the high degree of craftsmanship that prevailed in Santorini in the medieval times. There is a street that meanders through the Convent and if you are lucky, you can hear the nuns singing Vespers.
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#9 of 24 Things To Do in Santorini
Archaeological Museum
Santorini Island
~2.25 miles from Santorini city center
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#10 of 24 Things To Do in Santorini
Megaron Gyzi
Santorini Island
~2.26 miles from Santorini city center
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Behind the Catholic cathedral, Megaron Gyzi Museum has local memorabilia, including fascinating photographs of Fira before and immediately after the 1956 earthquake.
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#11 of 24 Things To Do in Santorini
Agios Nikolaos Monastery
Santorini Island
~2.47 miles from Santorini city center
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#12 of 24 Things To Do in Santorini
White Beach
Santorini Island
~3.59 miles from Santorini city center
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#13 of 24 Things To Do in Santorini
Red Beach
Santorini Island
~3.79 miles from Santorini city center
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#14 of 24 Things To Do in Santorini
Vourvoulos Beach
Santorini Island
~3.91 miles from Santorini city center
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#15 of 24 Things To Do in Santorini
Naval Museum
Santorini Island
~4.20 miles from Santorini city center
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Aegean Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Mykonos, Greece. The founder and chairman of the Museum, George M. Drakopoulos received the Athens Academy Award and the World Ship Trust's Award for Individual Achievement for the foundation of the museum.
A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1983 and in 1985 opened to the public in a Mykonian building of the 19th century located in the area known as Tria Pigad in the town centre.
The museum aims to undertake the preservation, promotion and study of the Greek maritime history and tradition, and specializes in merchant ship history in the Aegean Sea. The Aegean Maritime Museum was the first ever Greek museum to restore living historical exhibits as they were originally designed and built. Exhibits that are living restorations include the The "Armenistis" lighthouse (built in 1890) which operates in the museum garden, the ship that laid cables in the Aegean, "Thalis o Milesios" (built in 1909) and the "Perama" sailing ship, "Evangelistria" (built in 1940) which are located on the museum wharf at the Paleo Phaliro marina.
The garden of the Aegean Maritime Museum aside from displaying the lighthouses has a number of ancient sailor marble gravestones collected from the islands of Myconos and Delos.
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#16 of 24 Things To Do in Santorini
Panagia Episkopi (Mesa Gonia)
Santorini Island
~4.31 miles from Santorini city center
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#17 of 24 Things To Do in Santorini
Prophet Elias Monastery
Santorini Island
~4.39 miles from Santorini city center
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#18 of 24 Things To Do in Santorini
Wine Museum
Santorini Island
~4.44 miles from Santorini city center
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#19 of 24 Things To Do in Santorini
Monolithos Beach
Santorini Island
~4.62 miles from Santorini city center
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Situated at the eastern part of the island, long enough, with dark sand, deep blue clear water, the beach of Monolithos is more quiet than the near by Kamari, but the landscape is the same beautiful. In fact it is the same beach starting from Perissa at the South and ending to Monolithos.
The beach offers some accomodation in the village and meals and snacks at the beach.
Access is easy by car; public buses run frequently in summer to the homonymous village.
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#20 of 24 Things To Do in Santorini
Vlychada Beach
Santorini Island
~4.98 miles from Santorini city center
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#21 of 24 Things To Do in Santorini
Baxedes Beach
Santorini Island
~5.16 miles from Santorini city center
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Beach at the very North of the island, 3 km far from Oia at the North-east, it is ideal for those liking to avoid big crowds.
Sandy with black sand and shade. Due to its location the beach is affected by the summer northern winds ("meltemia") which make it unsuitable for swimming.
Access is possible by rented or private car and motorbike.
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#22 of 24 Things To Do in Santorini
Museum of Minerals and Fossils
Santorini Island
~5.47 miles from Santorini city center
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An extensive collection of rocks and minerals, including minerals from around the world, Nebraska agates, and florescent minerals can be seen on display. See a quartz crystal that measures 16 inches high!
See fossils from the Cambrian Seas to Ice Age Mammals, including a mammoth tusk, prehistoric bison skulls, giant sloth bones and mastadon teeth. The Brent Kent fossil collection contains fossil specimens dating back as far as 500 million years ago.
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#23 of 24 Things To Do in Santorini
Perivolos Beach
Santorini Island
~5.48 miles from Santorini city center
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#24 of 24 Things To Do in Santorini
Perissa Beach
Santorini Island
~5.52 miles from Santorini city center
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