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information on hotels, restaurants, cafe, car rentals, club, travel agency, art shops, jewellery, diving, pottery, german french italian spanish portoguese japanese hotels restaurants car rentals travel agency pottery sifnos villages beaches worth seeing photo gallery 360 panoramas webcam e-cards mailing list news search random about us links sifnos island, greece - sifnos map available regions : sifnos, artemonas, kamares, platys gyalos, agia marina, apollonia, herronissos, achlada, panagia poulati, kastro, exabela, katavati, vlichada, faros, apokofto, agios loukas, vathi, tsopos, archaelogical museum of siphnos, kastro, church of panagia geranioforou, kato petali, sifnos folklore museum, monastery of panagia tis vrissis, monastery of panagia hrissopigi, ano petali, troulaki - giavroula, sifnos sifnos, lies in the middle of the cyclades islands between serifos, kimolos and antiparos and is about 80 nautical miles from piraeus. it has an area of 74 sq. km. and a shoreline of 70 km, with a population of 2000. the island is reached on the ferries which run on the piraeus- kythnos- serifos- sifnos- milos- kimolos line, and there are also sailings to other islands in the cyclades. sifnos was very wealthy in ancient times, thanks to its gold and silver mines. proof of this, is the treasury which the siphnians built at delphi in the 6th century bc to house their offerings. however, it appears that something went wrong with the mines; either they were worked out or flooded by the sea -we do not know which- and their production ceased. in ancient times, siphnos`s wealth was measured by the gold and silver it produced, in the last two centuries it can be measured by its cultural output. in 1207, the venetian marco sanudo conquered sifnos and it was incorporated into the duchy of naxos. in 1537, it was conquered by the turks. it played its part in the struggle for liberty in 1821 and was united with greece in 1832. sifnos, has a lot of things to offer, even in the most demanding visitor. the imposing landscapes, the picturesque settlements like apollonia, kamares and artemonas, the beautiful beaches like platys gialos, the medieval villages like kastro and the old monasteries like chrysopigi, taken together with island`s excellent infrastructure, made sifnos a very popular destination. there are 365 churches on sifnos with chrysopigi being the most famous one. take a tour among sifnos villages. sifnos is also famous for its beaches and the famous pottery. photos and text taken from `sifnos - history-art-folklore-routes` (toubis editions) sifnos gallery - best of the month popular categories - pages sifnos 360 panoramic views sifnos live webcam sifnos hotels guide sifnos rent a car sifnos restaurants sifnos beaches sifnos villages all our members sifnos image gallery - best of the month travel to sifnos photo gallery - view monastery of panagia hrissopigi bellsmonastery of panagia hrissopigi travel to sifnos photo gallery - sifnos faros travel to sifnos photo gallery - sifnos something else you need about sifnos? send us a message. we try to cover all areas of information a visitor may need. your suggestion will help us! powered by marinet 18 alipedou str, 18531 piraeus greece phone +30 210 4101130, fax +30 210 4101132 email: travel to sifnos greece copyright 2002-2004
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