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Tinos
Tinos ( ) is a Greek island situated in the Aegean Sea. It forms part of the Cyclades archipelago. The closest islands are Andros, Delos, and Mykonos. It has a land area of and a 2021 census population of 8,934 inhabitants. Tinos is famous amongst Greeks for the Church of Our Lady of Tinos, Panagia Evangelistria, for the island's 80 or so windmills, for about 1,000 artistic dovecotes, for 50 active villages and for the Republic of Venice, Venetian fortifications on the mountain Exomvourgo. On Tinos, both Greek Orthodox and Catholic populations co-exist, and the island is also well known for its sculptors and painters, such as Nikolaos Gysis, Yannoulis Chalepas and Nikiforos Lytras. The island is located near the geographical center of the Cyclades islands complex, and because of the Panagia Evangelistria church, with the reputedly miraculous icon of Virgin Mary that it holds, Tinos is also the center of a yearly pilgrimage that takes place on the date of the Dormition of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exomvourgo
Exomvourgo or Exobourgo (, /) is a mountain on the island of Tinos. Unlike the other mountains in the Cyclades, it has a rugged appearance and is the site of a ruined Venetian fortress and town. Exomvourgo is not the highest mountain on the island—that is Tsiknias—but is in a central location ringed by many small villages such as Tripotamos and Falatados and can be climbed from several of these. The walk up from ''Iera Kardia Iisou'' takes around 20 minutes. The former Exomvourgos municipality shares its name with the mountain. Ancient history Remains dating from the Copper Age have been found near Exomvourgo and Geometric period Geometric art is a phase of Greek art, characterized largely by geometric motifs in vase painting, that flourished towards the end of the Greek Dark Ages and a little later, . Its center was in Athens, and from there the style spread among the t ... and 5-6th century BC remains have been found at archaeological excavations at the mountain' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
