The Beautyful Villages - Island Of Santorini, Greece

Santorini is one of the most popular and unique island with so many villages and beaches of unique character and style. Few of the popular villages are discussed as bellow.

Fira Santorini

Fira is the capital of Santorini officially known as Thera and regarded as one of the most important villages in Santorini Greece with nearly about 2000 inhabitants. The city is situated at the west side of the Island. This village is very touristy with white painted houses, blue windows and doors separated by small narrow streets.

Fira is so touristy that during the pick season the streets become crowded with all kind of shops, jewelleries, restaurants, cafes and nightclubs. Fira is the best place for shooping jewllaries.

The Village of Oia

Oia is 11 km far from Fira pronounced, as Ia. Oia is one of the popular villages in Santorini established at the northwest edge of the Island. This village is popular in all over the world for it’s romantic and breathtaking sunset.

The streets of this village are also packed with expensive jewellery boutiques. Oia is also very renowned for it’s quite life and artistic views. This is the reason why artists from various places of the globe come to this village and established here forever.

The village of Oia has great cultural attraction which can be found in Maritime museum. By visting the maritime museum one can find a wide idea about the maritime life of the area. Oia also consists of a port name "Ammoudi". As Ameni beach is located in Oia, you can have a tasty meal of fresh fish.

Kamari Village - Santorini Island, Greece

Kamari is one of the most planned villages in Santorini, which was rebuilt after 1956 earthquake. Now this village is a tourist resort with lots of hotels and rooms of all budget and category to welcome every customer. This village was developed very quickly because of it’s sea and beach.

Kamari is established in Northwest with 1300 permanent residents, at a distance of 11 kilometers from Fira. No need to worry for accommodation and Entertainment in the village as you can get lots of hotels, rooms, several restaurants, taverns and bars. For entertainment you can find bars and discos.

Month of August is the best time to book accommodation in Kamari, in the month of august you can have the opportunity to go through their local festival name “Kamariano Panighyri". In this festival the participants are offered with plenty of music, dance, wine and food.

Imerovigli Village

Imerovigli is situated at the north of the island with typically Cycladic settlement, which is only 2 Kilometers away from the capital of Island Fira. This is a picturesque village with spectacular view to the Caldera as this village is situated on a higher cliff

One can find many hotels, white washed traditional houses, narrow streets, small churches and some nice taverns. Imerovigli is a quite and beautiful village. As this village is so near to Fira, can be access by walk.

Akrotiri, Santorini Greece

Akrotiri is located at the famous read beach, which is 15 kilometers far from Fira. This Village has been regarded as the very famous archeological place. This is also called the buried city of Santorini as this village was buried under the volcanic ash. The Akrotiri was belongs to Minoan settlement, which had been disappeared under the volcanic ashes during 1500 BC due to volcanic explosion. Due to volcanic soil everything is well preserved


Village of Firostefani Santorini, Greece

The village of Firostefani is established to the north of Fira. This village offers tourists a nice evening to enjoy the sunset of unique beauty. Firostefani contain lots of hotels from where one can view the beautiful and breath taking Santorini sunset completely.

Access to this village is possible by public busses, Taxis and moter bikes. As Firostefani is very near to Fira, you can go by walking. You also can get nice accommodation solution matching to all budget and taste

Monolithos

Monolithos is small village at a distance of 9km from Fira. This is a typical Cycladic village with traditional white washed houses. Monolithos is accessible by public busses, taxi and motorbikes.

Monolithos is less crowded in comparison to Perissa and kamari.

Oia Sunset - The Most Romantic Santorini Sunset

Oia is one of the most popular villages on the island of Santorini. One can find the amazing work of artists in local art galleries. Oia is so beautiful that it has been one of the most favorite places for the artists from all over the world. Artists fell in love with the breath taking vies of this village and get settled for ever in Oia. For this reason you can see lots of art galleries in the village of Oia. This magical village is also known as Ia.


Oia is famous for its romantic and breath taking sunset. The purple sunset takes the breath away when it spreads the fabulous colors through out the sky during the time of sun sinks in the in to the sea.


Santorini romantic sunset is so amazing and beautiful that couples like to spend till late afternoon in the company of each others. The couples try to store this 15 minutes breathtaking view for ever in their memory as a lifetime experience. The hotels in Oia make special arrangement for couples to view the attractive sunset with their companies. The purpose of this arrangement from hotels is to attract the couples come from all over the world to view the romantic sunset.