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Rakizio : Raki Making

Raki Alchemies Lots of people think of September as the ideal month for a holiday. So if the beginning of autumn – or if you wish the end of summer – finds you in Tinos and you hear people talking about raki making, do not hesitate to… run to it at first chance! Raki will
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Pano Meria

“Pano Meria” is the medieval architecture side of the island. Pano Meria is the place where the landscape changes and the sights of the Middle Ages are still very obvious, surrounded by green creeks and steep slopes. The route to “Pano Meria” begins at Ktikado village. The first impression of the village is the catholic
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Kato Meria

Worship in Kato Meria Thousands of pigeon houses, lunar landscapes, unseen catholic chapels and deserted villages form the valley of Tinos in Kato Meria.  . . . Far away to Kampos … where is the heart of the Tinian inland.The special homeland of Aghia Pelagia of the typical characteristics of the local architecture, the local
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Tracking Tinos agricultural landscape

Text by Kostas Danousis Pictures by Rita Filippousis You don’t need a PhD in Landscape Archeology to feel the magic of the unique, natural agricultural and structured landscape of Tinos inland. It only takes a rod for stick (a truly useful tool: we often ride on it while others feed and beat it!) and good
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Exo Meria – The cradle of arts

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EXO MERIA – “The land of Marble”     It is a challenge to wander in the road traced by famous marble sculptors. Discover small miracles created by artists long ago and they still make us feel impressed. Meet the wild side of the nature at its best.     Kardiani  The first settlement in Exo
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DELOS

Light birth Delos : The resume of the history of a brilliant island… of the enormous open air museum of Delos.   Once upon a time, there was an “invisible” piece of land that was floating on the sea. It used to “sail” without reason underneath the sea until it was hit by Poseidon’s trident
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Chapels

White specks The architect Maria Vidalis analyzes the strategic position of chapels to the landscape of Tinos as well as their connection with the villages and their people. At the two hundred km² of Tinos, there are around seven hundred and fifty chapels, sparse over cultivable land, close to paths or at the tops of
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Aghios Nikolaos Chora in the endings of the 18th century

 Tinos In the 18th century, the century of Light, the climate of traveling philology changes under the ancient times worship effect as well as the climate of rational speech which progressively defenestrated the myth. The strict, objective description is now the norm while the tokens of the times acquire reliability. One of the travelers who
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Courses of History

Tinos within time, as Markakis Zallonis, the unknown Greek enlightener and medical philosopher from Krokos has written it down, back in 1809. They say that the island was named by someone called “Tinos” who was the first man who got to live there. Bochart ascribes the name to the Dorian dialect and specifically to the
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