OIA

• Δευτέρα 21 Αυγούστου 2023
• ioanna

OIA

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The distance that separates Oia from Fira is not over 10km. of paved road.

The small houses, carved into the rock, the mansions with their stairways and their neoclassical architecture, with white and ochra as their dominant colours, the walls decorated with small stones, the roads paved with flagstones, and the flowers, from a harmonious total of the impressive picture of the village. The village square is a balcony looking at the caldera. The view of the volcano and the infinity of the sea take a different dimension when seen from here. The wealth of the villagers of the last century is exhibited in the Nautical museum of Oia. Oia’s inhabitants were sailors, and became rich in the last century by working in the sea. They decorated their village with neoclassical buildings which today bear witness to an age that has passed.

The church of Aghiou Sozontos ( Saviour ) was built before 1680. The sunset will be not forgotten by those who enjoy it.