Milos is an island of medium size, 150 square kilometers and seven urban centers in real cities and small towns. It is located in the southern part of the Western Cyclades islands and is known to most people as the place where it was found the statue of Venus, now in the Louvre museum in Paris known as the Venus de Milo.
Only recently, tourism has discovered Milos as a holiday destination with its natural beauty to a large extent due to its volcanic origins make it unique among all the Cyclades islands.
Milos offers more than seventy beaches, spas, and interesting archaeological sites. Lives on the coast of Milos monk seals, one of the most endangered marine species around the Mediterranean and with a little 'luck you can see it sailing between the coast and the islands surrounding Milos.
The seven cities of the island are Adamas, Triovassalos, Pera, Trypiti, Plakes, Plaka, and Pollonia. Very interesting to visit the villages Mandrakia and Klima.
Adamas (or Adamantas) is the island's main port, and although the capital is Plaka, it is the vital center: it is not just the articulation of the major roads but also the home of most of the islands accommodations. Here you can visit the churches of Aghia Triada and Agios Halarambos and boat to boat trips. In July the city hosts the Milos Festival featuring traditional dances, gastronomic events and jazz concerts, one of the festival is the ancient greek theater near Trypiti.
Plaka, as we have said is the capital of Milos and certainly the most distinctive city: with its narrow streets and whitewashed houses overlooking the bay from the top of the hill where it was built on the ruins of the ancient town of Milos. Plaka is just 5 km from Adamas and south merges with Trypiti. In addition to the interesting Archaeological Museum and the Folklore Museum of Arts and here you can visit the French kastro built on an ancient Acropolis where you can enjoy magnificent views. Near Trypiti well worth visiting the catacombs of the first century, the only example in Greece, very suggestive and should not be missed.
Not far found Klima, a fishing village very characteristic white houses and colorful doors.Another nice destination for a trip is Pollonia, even the boats sail from here to the island of Kimolos.
The beaches of the island of Milos
The beaches of Milos offer an impressive natural beauty and variety: there's white sand and black sand, small pebbles or shells, or large rocks surrounded by too many colors.Even the waters of the sea surrounding Milos fade from blue to blue, to emerald green in a palette that will not fail to impress.
Most beaches are easily accessible by good roads from the pavement, but some can reach only by foot or by sea. The beaches can not miss in our opinion are the following:
Firopotamos: a very pretty little bay with fishermen's houses
Mandrakia: a little gem of small houses with shelters for fishing boats.
Sarakiniko: a moonscape rocks incredibly white and a small bay
Agios Konstantinos: a shelter for the boats that enter through narrow passages in the rock
Papafragas: a narrow sandy beach between high walls of rock
Pollonia: a nice beach surrounded by trees
Paliochori: 10 km. from Adamas beach this is perhaps the most interesting island, made of small pebbles and hot springs
Haghia Kiriaki: a long beach of sand and fragments of shells
Tzigrado: a beach of perlite, white as snow, plunges into a deep blue sea
Firiplaka: near Tsigrado wide sandy beach surrounded by colorful rocks
Provatas: beautiful beach of reddish sand
Gerontas: small black sand beach with arches and caves.
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