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Kythnos: The Island with 100 Beaches!

There’s nothing like Greece in the summer, especially when you spend it in the Cyclades. No matter how much you explore, there will always be something you miss, something you will find next time that will excite you. Besides the mainstream islands, there are also the outsiders, and the ultimate outsider of the Cyclades is Kythnos.

Ferries to Kythnos

Kythnos is a Cycladic island between Kea and Serifos. It is just 1 hour and 40 minutes from the port of Lavrio. It connects with Piraeus and other Aegean ports. Conventional ferries take about 2.5 hours to travel from Piraeus to Kythnos.

Discovering Kythnos

Kythnos, also known as Thermia, due to its thermal springs, remains one of the least known corners of the Aegean. It has the familiar color of the Cyclades, with barren hills, surrounded by kilometers of dry stone walls and 350 scattered white picturesque chapels. It was inhabited in the 10th century BC by the Dryopes, inhabitants of Euboea. It thrived in classical antiquity and participated in the events of the Battle of Salamis. Its Chora is built amphitheatrically on the slope of a hill and is 8 km from Merihas, the island’s port. It was built in the 17th century and has been continuously inhabited since then. It is one of the most beautiful Cycladic villages, a charming ensemble with white houses, cobbled streets, whitewashed steps, and many small churches and windmills. Enjoy its sights such as the Heroon at the entrance of Chora, the Byzantine Museum, the church of Agios Savas from the 17th century, with its notable wooden iconostasis, and the church of the Transfiguration of Christ, with its 17th-century iconostasis. Finally, you can visit the wind farm northeast of Chora, which is the first wind station that operated in Greece.

A good but hard-to-access location for panoramic photos is the castle of Orias. It is a medieval castle whose foundations still survive today on the cliff.

Baths in Kythnos

Even if we had 100 days, it wouldn’t be enough to explore its beaches. However, we will mention some of the most notable, leaving the rest for you to discover. The most famous beach on the island is Kolona. Visit it and be impressed by how a strip of sand divides the sea in the middle into two beaches in the same spectacular way. Leaving Merihas port towards Chora, we first encounter the small beach of Martinakia and then Eposkopi and Apokrousi. These are the only organized beaches of the island, the most crowded with beach bars and restaurants, and have fine sand. Passing through the settlement of Chora, we reach the bay of Loutra. If you swim at the edge of the beach, you will enjoy the beneficial properties of the Thermal Springs that flow into the sea. The ideal time to visit the beach is just before sunrise. If you seek absolute peace to enjoy your swim, you can visit the beaches of Skylo, Gaidouromatra, Simousi in the southeast, and Mavrianos and Stifo in the southwest of the island. At the southeast end of the island is the unique pine-covered settlement of Panagia Kanala. Around the church area, there are the bays of Megali Ammos, Ammoudaki, and Antonides.

You will find that Kythnos is a beautiful mountainous Cycladic island between Kea and Serifos that retains its natural beauty. During your stay on the island, and as you get to know it better, you will enjoy its beaches, nightlife in its shops, festivals, museums to explore, and unique decoration in the architecture of its Chora. Admire the courtyards and alleys painted with lime and decorated with themes from island life. It is an unexplored island that you must discover, and surely one visit will not be enough!

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