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This is a brand new hotel (opening 2008) and there was very little information available online about it. Nevertheless, Mykonos Grace have a good opinion, so I emailed with interest of booking stay at their Santorini hotel next year. I also mentioned lack of photos on their website. As a response to this, a manager at Santorini Grace emailed me a bunch of photographs "from their recent photoshoot". Their website have since been updated with some of those photos, but not all of them—so this is exclusive on Flickr!
Santorini (Thera in Greece) is a small, circular archipelago of volcanic islands located in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km south-east from Greece's mainland. It is the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of islands, with an area of approximately 28 mi², and in 2001 had an estimated population of 13,600. Santorini is essentially what has been left from an enormous volcanic explosion which destroyed the earliest settlements thereon and led to the creation of the current geological caldera.
Welcome to Santorini
Did the catastrophic volcanic eruption that ravaged Santorini circa 1600 BC destroy Crete's ancient Minoan civilization-and give birth to the myth of Atlantis? In 1967, archaeologists on Santorini unearthed the remains of a Bronze Age city that may have been home to as many as 30,000 people. Whether the Lost Continent of Atlantis is rooted in myth or reality, an undisputed fact remains. The eruption created a caldera and one of the most dramatic land and seascapes in the entire Mediterranean. On Santorini, white washed buildings cling to vertiginous cliffs that plunge to a turquoise sea. Part of the Cyclades Archipelago, the three island group of Santorini, Thirasia and uninhabited Aspronisi present the traveler with a unforgettable vistas.
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