Anafi

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Anafi (Greek Ανάφη ( f sg ) ) is a small island in the southeast of the Cyclades with 294 inhabitants ( 2011). Along with several uninhabited islets, it forms a municipality in Greek region South Aegean. She has a length of 12 km and a width of 6 km, a surface area of ​​38.636 km ² and rises to 582 meters above sea level. inst

History

According to the mythological story of Apollo is said to have ordered to be Anafi emerge from the sea to save the Argonauts on their journey from Colchis before a storm and give them protection.

First, Phoenicians settled later Dorians, who founded a city on the hill of Kastelli.

In the 5th century BC was one of Anafi Athens, in the Middle Ages to Naxos and several Venetian families.

In 1537 the island was conquered by the Turks, until it was in 1830 part of the newly founded state of Greece.

* 1920: for Moni Kalamiotissis 1 tenant

The municipality includes the uninhabited islands of Anafi Makra, Pachia and Ftena.

Attractions

Today there are Anafi a port ( Agios Nikolaos ), about a village (Chora ) and along the south coast seven sandy beaches ( including Klisidi, Katsouni, Mikros and Megalos Roukounas and Prassies ), in the east of the high marble monolith Kalamos, at the foot the monastery Zoodohos Pigi is to be limited. Kalamos is to Gibraltar the second highest cliff in Europe. On the rock stands the church of Panagia Kalamiotissa.

Approximately half of the island is owned by the Orthodox Church. A bus runs in the summer several times a day to the beaches. Near the village is a Venetian castle and the church of Agios Athanasios.

Further east you will find Greek and Roman ruins, some of which are under water and are sometimes freely floated in winter storms.

Anafi is repeatedly driven in the week of Santorini with ferries, the trip takes about two hours.

Until a few years ago there was a single road that connects the port to the village and on the wrong bus. Meanwhile, more roads were built, approximately up to the monastery at the foot of Kalamos in the southwest of the island, which ensures that the numerous beaches on the south coast were much more accessible, as well as from Chora to west and from Chora interior of the island.

On Anafi there is a post office, a doctor and a heliport.

The Chora

Port Agios Nikolaos

South coast with the Kalamos monoliths

Zoodohos Pigi at the foot of Kalamos

View from the Panagia Kalamiotissa plant on the island

Cairn overlooking the island of Pachia