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A panorama of Santorini Greece from the highest point of the island at the Monastery of Profitis Ilias.
Incredible detail if you look at it original size.
The towns of Fira and Oia in the distance. Many blue domed churches and vineyards in view.
Fira, Santorini (Greece)
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Santorini Greece is characterised by its picturesque white painted villages on the top of impressively high cliffs.
The main reason the inhabitants of Santorini were choosing areas so far away from the sea was the fear of the pirates.
A village in Santorini is very similar to all the villages in most of the islands of the Cyclades: small white-painted houses with blue doors and windows divided by narrow streets.
This kind of architecture can be explained by several reasons:
the small number of secure and easy to build on places, protection from the hard weather conditions (heavy hurricanes in winter and solar heat in summer), a shelter from the many pirates of the area, and also scarcity of construction material.