The municipality of Santorini includes the inhabited islands of Santorini and Therasia, as well as the uninhabited islands of Nea Kameni, Palaia Kameni,…
The most recent eruption at Santorini was in 1950 on Nea Kameni, the northern island. The eruption was phreatic (steam-driven explosions that occur when water…
The island was the site of one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded history: the Minoan eruption (sometimes called the Thera eruption), which occurred…
It is the most active volcanic centre in the South Aegean Volcanic Arc, though what remains today is chiefly a water-filled caldera. The volcanic arc is…
The church of Saint George (Agios Georgios) in Oia. The church housed the holy icon of Saint George that an ancestor of the Nomikos shipping family brought to…