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.

Explore the popular beaches in Santorini, Greece with Emver Car Rental Company

No introduction is required to explain the beauty of Santorini. Santorini Island is popular for romantic sunsets, beaches, Villages, blue doomed churches. This island is gifted with beautiful beaches with uniquely colored sand. Most of the Santorini beaches are having the black sand that creates an unforgettable experience within the visitors.

The most popular beaches in Santorini are:

• Kamari Beach
• Perissa Beach
• Monolithos beach
• Read beach near Akrotiri

Kamari Beach

This is the longest, busiest and the First beach which was developed as a beach Holiday resort, situated 10 kilometers south east of Fira. The general landscape of the beach is much similar to Perissa with spectacular black sands.

Kamari is the hot spot for visitors offering varieties of hotels, rooms, tavernas, restaurants, beach bars, cafes, water sports, sun umbrellas and night clubs to entertain the visitors.

Perissa Beach

Perissa is regarded as one of the popular beaches in the Island situated south east of Fira. It is a very tourist crowded village with impressive and amazing black sandy beach. The village of perissa is newly built with an aim to attract and welcome tourists. Perissa is tourist town becomes more crowded at summer holidays time.

As Village of Perissa is a touristy town, it offers great verity of hotels, taverns, Resturants, bars, beach bars, rooms and night clubs.

Monolithos Beach

Monolithos is nearest to the Kamari. This beach is less touristy located 9 Kilometers from Fira and close to the airport. The impressive golden sandy beach consists of a great potential, but suffers from the strong wind that clatter across the sand.

This beach offers few hotels, beach bars, children’s play area, basket ball court, football pitch and umbrellas. This is a very organized beach divided in to two parts, one is family part and another one is quite part. The quite part is suitable for couples.

Red Beach

The beach has fine red sand and rocks. This beach is very popular for it’s unique color sand and the hill behind it. The beach get it’s name from the lava red cliff and red sand.

Due to small beach area it gets crowded quickly. One can find chairs, umbrellas, and paddleboats for rent.

The red beach is accessible by private cars or rent cars and then walking by the lot. Red beach also can be reached by sea with help of boats that departs from the ports of Akrotiri and Fira

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