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a Archaeological Museum Híos, Lésvos,
" ⌂ Platía Dimarhíou
SÁMOS § 22730 27469 # 8am–3pm Ikaría, Híos Ágios Vourliótes Tsambou Beach
Límnos
Kambos
Foúrni
Beach
Tue–Sun ¢ Main public hols
Potámi Beach Karlóvasi Konstandínos Tsamadoú Beach
ΣΆΜΟΣ Megálo Seïtáni Beach Manolátes Lemonákia Beach
Mikró Seïtáni
Kokkári
2 ' Beach Potámi and Seïtáni Vourliótes
k 4 km (2 miles) W of Pythagório g Vathý, Karlóvasi, Efpalínio Órygma 1,437 m (4,715 ft) Moní Theotókou Sámos Mount Ámbelos Mitiliní Efpalínio Vathý Posidonio
Drakéi
EXPERIENCE The Northeast Aegean Islands major archaeological site at Heraion, a remainder of by phone: 22730 62813) 0 km Mount Kerketéfs 5 N Votsalákia Moní Megális International Potakaki Pythagório Psilí Ammos
Pythagório n Themistoklí Sofoúli 107; www.samos.net
1,153 m (3,783 ft)
⌂ 15 km (9 miles) SW of
Moní
Sámos is a major hub for the Northeast Aegean, with
Evangelistrías
Mount Kerketéfs
Vathý # Mid-Feb–Nov:
a bustling capital, good beaches, charming ports and a
Órmos
8:30am–2:40pm (prebook
Marathokámbou
Votsalákia and
Órygma
Samos
Beach
ancient times when Sámos was a maritime power.
∑ eupalinos-tunnel.gr
Panagías
Limniónas
Airport
Beach
Efpalínio Órygma (Eupalinos’s
Beach
tourists and locals alike.
TURKEY
tunnel) is a 1,036-m (3,400-ft)
Heraion
1
Ireo
Here you’ll find the Sámos
section of an aqueduct, rank-
Vathý
5
ing as one of the premier
Archaeological Museum,
engineering feats of the
which contains artifacts from
0 miles
g @ Gefyráki junction,
Pátmos
the excavations at the Heraion
ancient world. Designed by
waterfront
the engineer Eupalinos and
sanctuary (p141). Because of
Though the original hillside
village of Áno Vathý already
pilgrims who visited the shrine,
between 529 and 524 BC, the
tunnel guaranteed ancient
existed in the late 1600s,
the collec tion of small votive
offerings is one of the richest
today’s lower town is recent;
Sámos a water supply in times
in Greece – among them are a
the harbour quarter grew up the far-flung origins of the built by hundreds of slaves
of siege, and remained in use
only after 1832, when the town bronze statuette of an Urartian until the 7th century AD.
became the capital of Sámos. god and a miniature of Perseus Eupalinos’s surveying was so
Above the harbour quarter, and Medusa. The largest sur- accurate that when the work
charming cobble-laned Áno viving free standing sculpture crews met, having begun from
Vathý carries on, oblivious to from ancient Greece is the star opposite sides of the moun-
the commerce below, whereas exhibit: a 5-m- (16-ft-) tall tain, their vertical error was nil.
lower Vathý, large enough to marble koúros from 580 BC, Visitors may walk along the
provide all amenities, caters to dedicated to Apollo. ledge used to remove waste
Small boats lining the
shore at the harbour of the
colourful town of Vathý
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