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The trash face of a pilgrimage site
Gone with the wind
Right align chairs
Strike a (holy) pose
Taking a nap
Remains of an era
Local specialties, global acceptance
Sweet, fresh figs at the market
The marble legacy of Pyrgos village
The island has over 600 pigeon houses decorated with style
A church stands on the spot where the miracle-working icon of Virgin was discovered
The Greek blue
The charming village of Tripotamos
Bourou: The neo-Greek sanctuary of taste
The local specialty: sun dried tomatoes
A picturesque sea side tavern
 

TINOS. DO YOU BELIEVE?

Even if you don't believe, here you will be aware of the power of faith that is measured on the knees from the port to the Virgin Mary's icon. It's a sloping, uphill course that has marked the island but it's not the only thing that will surprise you in the windy island of Tinos.

The beauty of the villages is like a rhyme from the romantic period of Palamas and will probably become the new love for your summers.

Pirgos, this marble village, is for the 'experts', but you may change your mind if, by mistake, you find yourselves in Tripotamos. You park in the opening-square when you reach the village and you enter a maze of crispy, white tunnels. The houses are joined together like a cell nexus that looks as if it was made that way in order to allow controlled entrance to 'intruders'. The village has few inhabitants today and you will be lucky if you find open the only pottery in operation.

Equally interesting is the settlement Volax that has metaphysical elongations. The houses are built on round stone masses and the landscape looks like a prehistoric gigantic playground.