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Click Stelios Hajiioannou makes a donation of £24,000 to Santorini Animal Welfare Association
Date : November 1st, 2008
Author : Jo MacFarlane
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou (or Hatziioannou) has pledged £24,000 every year to help the Santorini Animal Welfare Association. This is the double the number of medical checks the donkeys receive. He is prepared to donate a further £1,000 for every donkey that is rescued from its abusive own...

Click Views, Not Tourists
Date : October 7, 2007
Author : Joanna Kakissis
The view from Oia, on the wildly popular island of Santorini, illuminates the sun-and-sea bliss of Greece: At day's end, the sun drops into the blue Aegean horizon, draping the caldera of the Santorini volcano in a shimmery twilight. Come October, though, the view from Oia, as well as th...

Click AREADNE 2008
Date : 26-29 June 2008
Author : Travel to Santorini
AREADNE 2008 - Research in Encoding And Decoding of Neural EnsemblesNomikos Conference CenterSantorini, Greece26-29 June 2008For more information visit Areadne website...

Click Sunset with Heraklion Philarmonic Orchestra
Date : July 28, 2007
Author : Travel to Santorini
Arkadi - the Cretans association of Santorini organises a concert of Heraklion Philharmonic Orchestra at Oia during the sunset. The orchestra will be under the command of Leonidas Tzortzakis with Georgios Psaroudakis and Lena Xatzigeorgiou. The concert will take place at July 28, 2007...

Click Ross Daly Concert
Date : July 27, 2007
Author : Travel to Santorini
A concert of Ross Daly and his group Labyrinth will take place at July 27, 2007.Location: Kamari village open air cinema. Entrance: 21.00 Price: 20 euros This is a musical experience through a journey in time, created by Ross Daly and his group...

Click World Congress of Greek Gastronomy in Crete and Santorini
Date : 6 June 2007
Author : Athens News Agency
The 2nd World congress of Greek Gastronomy and Partenariat of the Food Industry-Spirits-Beverages was organized by the Greek Exports Organization at Iraklio, Crete and Santorini from June 8-10.It was the greatest meeting of buyers and producers of Greek food, spirits and beverages ever held in G...

Click Times recommends new best hotels of the world
Date : 13 June, 2007
Author : Times Newspaper
Newspaper Times has published the list of the best recently opened hotels of the world. Mystique - the hotel located on the Greek island Santorini and intended first of all for a newly-married couple has been matched on the first place. From all Mystique room-numbers the view on a volcano opens; the...

Click The Santorini Bride
Date : December 6, 2006
Author : Travel to Santorini
A new book titled The Santorini Bride from Anne McAllister is about to be published. It is about a millionaire Theo Savas settled in an isolated house on a Greek island (guess which) and Martha Antonides. More on

Click A pilot of the mobile unit, which uses a wind generator to transform seawater into potable water
Date : October 27, 2006
Author : e-Kathimerini
Greek scientists have discovered a way of solving the problem of water scarcity on Aegean islands - with the world’s first floating desalination platform. A pilot of the mobile unit, which uses a wind generator to transform seawater into potable water, is to undergo a demonstration...

Click From Classic to Exotic, SmarterTravel.com Lists Eight Can't-Miss Island Destinations
Date : October 27, 2006
Author : Travel to Santorini
Santorini, Greece. Honeymooners, history buffs, foodies, club hoppers and backpackers on a budget - Santorini offers something for everyone. The 45-square mile, crescent shaped island offers black and red sand beaches, ancient ruins and fresh cuisine. Some archaeologists even bel...

Click Singing in the Sea
Date : 8th August 2006
Author : DYTES
DYTES Singing in the Sea On 8th August, 2006, Dytes band, is inviting you to a live concert on board at the Caldera Gulf in Santorini. Around the volcano, P. Kameni and not only,...

Click Babul Supriyo videoclip
Date : August 31, 2005
Author : Travel to Santorini
Singer Babul Supriyo have shot the first video of his new album Kuch Aisa Lagta Hai in Santorini. According to Supriyo: Yes, it’s called Tere Liye and has been shot on one of the islands created by volcanic eruptions called Santorini. It features Niharika Singh, Miss India Asia Paci...

Click National Geographic TV International
Date : September 17, 2006
Author : Travel to Santorini
National Geographic TV International announced the launch if a new science-related programming that includes Mega Volcano (1x52’) which explores the eruption of Santorini volcano and its impact on the ancient world....

Click EU approves financial aid to Santorini farmers
Date : September 19, 2006
Author : Athens News Agency
European Union Farm ministers on Monday approved a series of measures aimed to support farming in Aegean islands. The measures were recommended by Greek Agriculture Minister Evangelos Basiakos and were drafted in cooperation with local organisations and representatives of Aegean islands. ...

Click Ye gods! Ancient volcano could have blasted Atlantis myth
Date : September 15, 2006
Author : Dan Vergano
Little wonder the ancients believed in lightning-bolt-throwing gods and smoking monsters emerging from the underworld. As a new marine geology survey of an ancient volcano in the Aegean Sea reveals, they may have been justifiably cowed. Not much is left of the Santorini Islands, among Gr...

Click Discovering the First Traces of the Olive
Date : September 14, 2006
Author : Travel to Santorini
The olive appeared wild in the Mediterrean basin many thousands of years ago. The cultivation of the olive spread along with the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean. Written sources indicate that the olive tree became known first among the peoples of the eastern Mediterranean, in Syria and As...

Click Santorini and Ariadne's Thread
Date : December 13, 2005
Author : Travel to Santorini
An extraordinary journey from Montreal to the Greek island of Santorini and Melbourne has brought a five-star show to the Adelaide Fringe. Talya Rubin is presenting Ariadne's Thread, a one-woman performance which is based on poems Rubin wrote during 10 months living alone in a cave house...

Click 16th Paleopathology Association European Meeting
Date : August 27, 2006
Author : Travel to Santorini
Santorini has the honor of hosting the 16th European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association to be held on the island of Santorini at the Nomikos Conference Center from August 28th to September 1st, 2006. The Meeting will take place at the Petros Nomikos Conference Center in Fira uniqu...

Click 1600 B.C. eruption was bigger than thought
Date : August 25, 2006
Author : Travel to Santorini
Scientists have learned the second largest volcanic eruption in human history -- the Bronze Age eruption -- was much larger than thought. Researchers from the University of Rhode Island and the Hellenic Center for Marine Research in Athens, Greece (using techniques similar to those emplo...

Click Cameron takes on epic of biblical proportions
Date : Aug. 20, 2006
Author : GLENN GARVIN
... But Jacobovici enticed Cameron into the documentary with interviews and other footage arguing that the 10 plagues that the Bible says struck Egypt before the Jews fled -- everything from rivers of blood to the death of every first-born Egyptian son -- had a firm basis in science. They were...

Click Santorini No 1
Date : July 23, 2006
Author : Travel to Santorini
Santorini ranked No 1 island in Europe according to Travel and Leisure magazine 2006 awards. More on Travel + Leisure...

Click 9th International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation (ICTPI)
Date : June 21, 2006
Author : Travel to Santorini
We are pleased to announce the organization of the 9th International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation (ICTPI), which will be held in Greece, on the island of Santorini (Thera), from Sunday, June 18, to Wednesday, June 21, 2006. For more information please visit:

Click Simcha Jacobovici, Santorini volcano and the biblical Exodus from Egypt
Date : April 18, 2006
Author : Travel to Santorini
A provocative $4-million documentary by Toronto filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici claims to have found archeological evidence connecting the story of the biblical Exodus from Egypt, 3,500 years ago with the minoan era eruption of the volcano of Santorini. Dating the Exodus to roughly 1,500 BC,...

Click 3rd International Conference on Enterprise Systems - June 26-27, 2006
Date : June 26-27, 2006
Author : www.Travel-to-Santorini.com
The 3rd ICESAcc 2006 Organizing Committee cordially invites contributors from academia, industry and research from all over the world to submit their original research and/or a proposal to organize a seminar, a workshop or a panel discussion in the area of Enterprise Systems and Accounting. ...

Click Volcanologist says past blast wiped out Plato's Atlantis
Date : March 29 2006
Author : Leigh Fenly
Plato, the ancient Greek philosopher, wrote the classic story of lost paradise, of the prosperous land of Atlantis disappearing without a trace, sunk into the sea by angry gods. For centuries, the location of Atlantis and the real reason for its decline have been debated. Now scientists ...

Click Work on roof for prehistoric site of Akrotiri begins again
Date :
Author : By Iota Sykka - Kathimerini
Prime Minister (and Culture Minister) Costas Karamanlis had to intervene personally to end the funding shortfall that had bedeviled the makeover of the archaeological site of Akrotiri on Santorini (or Thera, to give the island its ancient name). The Archaeological Society owed 4 million ...

Click GREECE: SECRETS OF THE PAST
Date : February 17, 2006
Author : Travel to Santorini
A new IMAX film named Greece: Secrets of the Past attempts to center itself on the work of archaeologist Christos Dumas and volcanologist George Vougioukalakis. We get to see students brush off artifacts, the scientists questioning each other (described as a demonstration of the Socratic method) and...

Click Santa Barbara Museum of Art on a tour that explores Santorini
Date : February 13, 2006
Author : LA Times
See the islands in flower DISCOVER the archeological treasures of the Greek isles on a 10-night tour that explores Santorini and Crete. The tour, sponsored by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, begins May 10. It's a wonderful time of year when wildflowers are bloomi...

Click AREADNE 2006 Research in Encoding And Decoding of Neural Ensembles
Date : June 22-25, 2006
Author : Travel to Santorini
The conference will take place on the Greek island of Santorini from Thursday, June 22 to Sunday, June 25, 2006. The formal portion of the conference will occur at the Nomikos Conference Center in the town of Firostefani. Morning 45-minute talks with a half-hour coffee break will be followed by a pr...

Click A feature on Titan surface named Santorini
Date : November 5, 2005
Author : Travel to Santorini
Like an ancient mariner charting the coastline of an unexplored wilderness, Cassini's repeated encounters with Titan are turning a mysterious world into a more familiar place. More on NASA - Titan su...

Click Elena Paparizou to get married in Santorini?
Date : October 8, 2005
Author : Travel to Santorini
According to rumours, Elena Paparizou is going to get married next Summer in Santorini. The Number One of Eurovision 2005 has visited Santorini many times and declares that she is in love with the island. According to the same rumours, the wedding is going to take place at t...

Click One tourist killed, six injured after vast roof falls on ancient site
Date : September 23, 2005
Author : Travel to Santorini
A male tourist was killed and at least six people were injured when a huge state-of-the-art steel roof covering the Akrotiri archaeological site on Santorini collapsed yesterday afternoon. More on

Click Fishermen festival
Date : September 19, 2005
Author : Travel to Santorini
Every yeat around the midle of September the fishermen of Santorini organise a fiesta at Vlihada. Free wine and fresh fish for everybody, a local band playing Santorini music and dancing. It was a local band from Emporio and Akrotiri with the addition of Mrs Perraki from Paros and of course Mr Kyria...

Click Foreign tourist boats arrivals more than doubled this year
Date : September 8, 2005
Author : Travel to Santorini
According to the Greek Ministry of Tourism the number of foreign tourist boats arrivals at Greek ports more than doubled this year. From May to August, 1,101 boats arrived at Greek ports, compared to 433 in the same period last year. The number of boats arrivals was particula...

Click Santorini as a model to reduce damage from hurricanes
Date : Friday, September 2, 2005
Author : Pedro Theye
I think we're all getting tired of these yearly menacing hurricane seasons. Those of us who have been affected by them all our lives know that they are a part of living in the Caribbean. Architecturally speaking, there are some things that we can do to reduce our worries about possible damage to our...

Click Evanthia Reboutsika and Elli Paspala
Date : September 3, 2005
Author : Travel to Santorini
Epanomerites and Oia municipality organised a concert of Evanthia Reboutsika and Elli Paspala in Oia on Saturday September 3, 2005 at 21:00 at the water purification plant in Finikia....

Click The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Warner Brothers filmed on Santorini
Date : August 23, 2005
Author : Palm Beach Post
Based on the teen bestseller by Brashares, THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS follows four best friends as their summer is spent apart for the first time in 16 years. They stay connected via a pair of jeans that—magically!—fits all four different body types perfectly.Volup...

Click Santorini sustainable development
Date : August 15 2005
Author : Travel to Santorini
Professor Michael Romanos leading a University of Cincinanati Sustainable Development Group presents the study Plan for the Future of Santorini. A Model for Environmental Tourism in Santorini. Tourism of the future is based on economics – where it’s cheap to go – leaven...

Click Nikos Papantoniou Lecture
Date : August 27 2005
Author : Travel to Santorini
The Society for the promotion of studies on Prehistoric Thera invites all intrested to the lecture of our Treasurer Civil Engineer Nikos Papantoniou about the protection of the monuments at the Archaeological site of Akrotiri. Bellonio Cultural Center Saturday August 27 2005, 20:00...

Click Boutique Hotels & Resorts International® Opens Three New Offices, Adds Staff, and New Hotels
Date : 17 August 2005
Author : Travel to Santorini
Boutique Hotels & Resorts International® awards a distinct identity and global name recognition to authentic boutique hotels and resorts around the world. Created to bring genuine boutique hotels to the forefront for travelers seeking exceptional hotel experiences, Boutique is a full-service all...

Click Santorini ranked second world's best island
Date : 12 July 2005
Author : Travel and Leisure Magazine
Travel and Leisure magazine announced the 2005 results in a variety of categories in New York on Monday. The scores are indexed averages of responses by readers to a questionnaire that asks them to rate destinations, properties and companies relevant to their recent travel. In the top is...

Click National Archaeological Museum...
Date : 16 June 2005
Author : NIKOS KOKKALIAS - KATHIMERINI
The National Archaeological Museum in Athens put back on display a priceless collection of Minoan frescoes (photo), as well as other artifacts, from the island of Santorini yesterday. The public had not been able to view the antiquities since 1999 when the 19th century building was badly damaged in ...

Click Putin’s Daughter to Get Married on Santorini
Date : 3 June 2005
Author : The Moscow News
One of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s daughters is going to marry on the Greek Island of Santorini, Greek television channel Star reported.The island’s mayor Angelos Russos told journalists that a suite has already been booked in a luxury hotel for the purpose.Island administ...

Click Best Summer Beaches 2004 - Forbes - USA
Date : 13 May 2005
Author : Christina Valhouli
Some people think the volcanic island of Santorini was once the lost city of Atlantis. While that's highly debatable, what is true is that one of the island's best beaches is Red Beach. The beach can be reached by following a footpath or by sailing up to its shore. The sand is red from volcanic ash,...

Click CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT
Date : May 12-15, 2005
Author : www.Travel-to-Santorini.com
CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT NEURAL STEM CELLS TO NEURAL CIRCUITS ORGANIZERS: AR Kriegstein and JG Parnavelas ...

Click Mission to undersea volcano
Date : April 2005
Author : www.ekathimerini.com
A team of Greek marine experts began a mission yesterday that, with the help of state-of-the-art technology, could lead to them discovering new forms of life in the uncharted depths of the country’s waters, the mission head told Kathimerini. The team from the Hellenic Center for Ma...

Click Santorini’s prehistoric site at Akrotiri
Date : Friday 22 October 2004
Author : www.travel-to-santorini.com

Click THE ISLAND OF SANTORINI IS A LEADING TOURIST DESTINATION FOR THE AUSTRALIANS
Date : 18 JANUARY 2005
Author : MACEDONIAN PRESS AGENCY
The Aegean island of Santorini is a leading tourist destination, “a must see” for everybody before leaving this world, according to a tourist show on Australia's “Channel 9” television.According to “Channel 9”, Santorini (which occupied the fifth place...

Click Avant Premiere of the movie "TOMB RAIDER II - The Cradle of Life
Date : 20 September 2003
Author : www.travel-to-santorini.com
Avant Premiere of the movie TOMB RAIDER II - The Cradle of Life United International Pictures Hellas, organizes on Saturday, 20 September 2003, the avant premier of the movie TOMB RAIDER II - The Cradle of Life in the Open Air Cinema Kamari, on Santorini Island, Greece.The event will be...

Click 25th International Music Festival of Santorini
Date : 4 Sep 2003
Author : www.travel-to-santorini.com
The Petros M. Nomikos conference centre is a magnificent complex of buildings dominating the town of Fira and the caldera. It was inaugurated in September 1989. Externally the main hall is an exact copy of the preexisting neoclassical mansion of Santorini which is dated from the turn fo the 20th cen...

Click Santorini hosts conference on 'Tales of the disappearing computer (DC)'
Date : 1-4 June 2003
Author : CTI - The Greek research academic computer technology institute
A conference entitled 'Tales of the disappearing computer (DC)' will take place from 1 to 4 June in Santorini, Greece. The aim of the conference is to stimulate debate on the latest research developments on how information technology can be diffused into everyday objects and settings, g...

Click Julia Roberts and Daniel Moder honeymoon in Santorini
Date : November 24, 2002
Author : Travel to Santorini
Julia Roberts and Daniel Moder a cameraman and cinematographer met on the set of The Mexican in 2000 and married on July 4, 2002 had their honeymoon in Santorini. ...

Click TOMB RAIDER SEQUEL UNDERWATER INFO
Date : July 29th 2002
Author : www.tombraiderchronicles.com
Paramount pictures Tomb Raider sequel is now underway at Pinewood Studios, London, with Angelina Jolie on board as British aristocrat Lara Croft, and according to Harry Knowles of Aint It Cool News, some details have emerged documenting underwater sequences currently being filmed off the coast of Gr...

Click LARA CROFT SEQUEL TO SHOOT ON SANTORINI
Date : August 1st 2002
Author : www.tombraiderchronicles.com
According to reports in today's Greek press, Angelina Jolie will shoot scenes from Paramount Pictures Tomb Raider movie sequel on the sun-drenched Aegean Sea island of Santorini. Filming is scheduled to begin Aug 26-31 at the northern-most point of the island in the small costal town of Ia. Producer...

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