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Santorini
The black sand of beach, moved by the wind, raises the look towards the vólcan from which it comes. Santorini, any half note and blue, all water and fire, hides under the waters a secret as big as the sea. Its inhabitants have a sheen maritíma in the skin, and the long hairs of the women know to seaweed. The island rocks gently to the rhythm of the tide.
Already close to Akrotiri eaten by the lava and erased in the time, we will continue the outline of the ruins and the silhouette of the ground until the sun catches our look. And there below, to another side of the soil on that we tread, another city is eliminated before the new day, and its inhabitants look up and find a blue as clean as the sky.
Santorini is definitely one of the places of stronger handsomeness and spectacular nature on the planet. This incredible scenery attracts the thousands of visitors every year. The term ‘Santorini‘ comes from ‘Saint Irini‘, although formally they know it as Thera or Thira that is well-known for the enormous volcanic explosion that destroyed the establishments on that, and created current cauldron geologically. He is the most southern member of the group of Ciclades of islands, located between Ios and islands Anafi, with an area of approximately 73 kilometers ² (28 me ²), and in 2001 it had an estimated population of 13.600. Its fantastic and natural beauty with its eminent night life does of the island one of the top and more tourist warm points of Europe.
Fantastic is a word often used in the description of the Greek islands but this of course must be applied more than more to Santorini. An island of extraordinary contrasts, it can be both incredibly beautiful and deeply slightly attractive. The white houses of bucket and domed blue churches can fall down nicely below the rock side in the capital Thira but its streets heavily it is developed by costly snack bars, fashionable shops, and close to the groups of visitors' nightmare. Santorini has an extremely well developed tourism infrastructure, emphasizing to visitors a very wide selection of accommodation, like hotels Santorini, studies, apartments, traditional houses, suites, chaletes and rooms for the rent.
The narrow footpaths of the island are ruled by small fashionable shops of designers, jewelry shops and the shops of art that sell goods of high quality. In Santorini the travel agents and agencies of rent of cars can be found almost everywhere to the island, offering its knowledge and do of its holidays one relax experience.
Because of the Santorini of natural spectacular and only beauty, several Greek singers have chosen the island, like the adjustment of its videos. The Greek and a series of TV Brazil have been rolled in Santorini, in addition to some Holywood movies. Generally Santorini is a place of much attractively for famous Greek and international.
