Bareboat and skippered sailing yachts boats charters rentals hire vacation in Greece, luxury motor yachts and motor sailers, cruises holidays around the greek islands isles, cyclades, saronic, ionian, sporades, dodecanese
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Bareboat and skippered sailing yachts boats charters rentals hire vacation in Greece, luxury motor yachts and motor sailers, cruises holidays around the greek islands isles, cyclades, saronic, ionian, sporades, dodecanese |
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SIFNOS. The island was famous in ancient times for the wealth which came from its gold and silver mines and the quarries of Sifnos stone.
The visitor is possible to combine a lively night life with a peaceful island existence close to nature. |
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An attractive drive from the port of Kamares, a modern town
with pottery workshops, brings us to the island's capital, Apolonia. It
has an interesting folklore museum, like that of the villages round about
Artemonas, Exambela, Kato Petali. The sole exception to this is the old capital
of Kastro, which remains an example of medieval town planning.
Picturesque windmills surrender their sails to the vagaries
of the wind, while no fewer than 365 churches and chapels sprout all over the
island like white mushrooms from the grey carpet of the island's terrain. The
monasteries of Sifnos, such as that of St. Symeon, of Ai-Lias, the Vrissi
monastery with an interesting little Byzantine museum and that of 'Hryssopigi',
the patron saint of the island.
There are clean and attractive beaches at Kamares, Faros,
Platis Gialos, Hersonissos, Vroulidia, Fikiada and Fassolou.