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Cheap flights to Santorini
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Fly to Santorini a vision of whitewashed houses, soaring cliffs, broad Aegean
skies and glistening blue seas. Santorini is an upmarket, tiny Greek island
just 19 kilometres long and 8 kilometres across at its widest point. The
island's unique crescent shape is the result of a catastrophic volcanic
eruption; the central caldera now an intriguing underwater landscape dotted
with steaming volcanic peaks.
XL.com specialise in cheap flights to Santorini
Fly to Santorini, her frequently photographed blue domes, cool white churches
and cloudless skies the images that most aptly depict the drama of the
sun-drenched Greek Islands. Find cheap flights to Santorini with XL Airways and
experience the majesty of Santorini's impressive volcanic caldera from where
there are truly magnificent sunsets atop the cliffs.
Cheap flights to Santorini for sophisticated Thira
Fly to Santorini and the picturesque capital of Thira. The seaward approach is
breathtaking; white cubist houses and distinctive blue domed churches perch
high on the cliff face and peer down over the port below. A cable car journey
or an ascent of over 500 steps brings you up to the charming Cycladic village
centre. Thira is a lively holiday resort that gets very busy during the summer
and offers a wide choice of restaurants, boisterous nightlife and excellent
shopping.
Cheap flights to Santorini for caldera cruising
Take a boat trip out into the middle of the Santorini caldera where the 2
smouldering islands of Nea Kameni and Palia Kameni are still volcanically
active. On Nea Kameni a 30-minute hike up from the shores below will bring you
to a hot, barren landscape of billowing sulphurous steam. Boats then anchor
offshore Palia Kameni for a short swim in the warm waters of the muddy hot
springs.
Cheap flights to Santorini for cliff top donkey rides
Cruises around the Santorini caldera will all call at the island of Thirassia.
The highlight of this visit is the lengthy cliff top ascent either by donkey or
by foot via a few hundred steps. Once you're at the top there are plenty of
tavernas at hand in which to recover and enjoy a drink with panoramic views
down over the Aegean.
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Cheap flights to Santorini for volcanic drama
Santorini's ancient volcanic eruption around 1600 BC has led to conjecture that
the island could have been home to the lost city of Atlantis. The result of
this volcanic devastation is a sunken crater. The wall is Santorini's inner
edge, plunging almost 1,000ft into the waters below. Around the island's outer
edge, extraordinary beaches of black and red volcanic sands shelve steeply down
into inky blue seas.
Cheap flights to Santorini for blue domed churches
Santorini's old capital is the traditional village of Pyrgos. This picturesque
village is overflowing with churches and home to the famous dome of the
Monastery of Prophitis Ilias. A labyrinth of narrow lanes and traditional
Cycladic houses wind up towards the hilltop Venetian castle from where you'll
get some of the best views across the island.
Cheap flights to Santorini for amazing Minoan ruins
Lying on the southern outer rim of Santorini the ruined site of the village of
Akrotiri is now deemed to be one of the most important Bronze Age settlements
in the Mediterranean. The village was destroyed in the island's catastrophic
volcanic eruption. Similar to excavations in Pompeii, the volcanic ash has
preserved remarkably intact Minoan ruins including entire buildings, pottery,
frescoes, furniture and even food remnants.
More to see and do in Santorini.
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