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The
Cyclades Islands -
Adrift in the cerulean waters of the Aegean Sea are the rugged, rocky,
barren islands of the Cyclades. Dotted with whitewashed cubelike
houses, and tiny churches with cornflower blue domes and white tiered
bell towers, these mountainous islands have become stylised in picture
form by a thousand prints in art shops everywhere.
Brilliant white villages spill across terraced hillsides, or crowd
waterfronts of tiny bays and inlets, sunbleached by the dazzling
brilliance of the day, hung with purple shadows and fairy lights at
night. On the map, these islands resemble a handful of stones
carelessly thrown by a giant hand towards Turkey in the East and Crete
in the South, and it’s because of their close proximity to each other
that they are so readily accessible to the tourist by ferry and
hydrofoil - and a real island-hopper’s paradise.
In this section you'll find pictures of the islands of Amorgos,
Folegandros, Naxos, Paros, Santorini and Sifnos. Some of these islands
are not on the usual tourist itinerary so I hope you'll find them
interesting.
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