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28 Hondrós Nímos
SÝMI Did You Know? Plati Kos, Tílos,

Sými doesn’t have a Rhodes
ΣΎΜΗ supply of fresh water,
so the islanders have it Oxia Nos Agía
Marína
Beach
g @ Gialós, Sými town n Sými town; www.symis.gr shipped in by tanker. Moní Taxiárhi Sými Town Beach Pédi Agios
Emboriós
EXPERIENCE The Dodecanese industry. By the 17th century it was the third-richest the jewel of the kástro, has an Kefála Pidima Vasílios Bígla Nanoú Beach
In Classical times, rocky, barren Sými thrived on the
Nikólaos
Beach
success of its sponge-diving fleet and boat-building
Mihaïl Roukounióti
Cape
island in the Dodecanese. The Italian occupation in
617 m (2,024 ft)
important post-Byzantine
1912 and the arrival of artificial sponges and steam
East Coast
icon, the Last Judgment, by
Bays
power ended Sými’s good fortunes. While the island’s
16th-century Cretan-School
Ágios
population has fallen, Sými remains a beautiful island
iconographer Geórgios
Beach
that attracts visitors to its charming main town.
Klontzás.
Gialesino
1 by 375 marble steps. The road 2 Megalonisi Sými Marathoúnda
Beach
from Gialós to Horió passes
Sými Town the hill of Noúlia, also known Moní Taxiárhi Panormítis
The harbour area, Gialós, is one as Pondikókastro. On the hill Mihaïl Roukounióti Beach Moní Taxiárhi
of the most beautiful in Greece, are the remains of an ancient ⌂ 6 km (4 miles) W Mihaïl Panormítis
surrounded by Neo-Classical tomb monument believed to of Sými town
houses and elaborate churches have been erected by the
built on the hillside, and is Spartans in 412–411 BC. Just west of Sými town is the 0 kilometres 3 N Sesklí
often busy with day trippers. Horió comprises a maze of 18th-century church of Moní 0 miles 3
A clock tower (1884) stands on lanes and distinctive houses, Taxiárhi Mihaïl Roukounióti,
the northwestern side of the often with traditional inte- which was built like a desert
harbour where the ferries and riors. The Sými Museum, high fortress using Gothic and folk
catamarans dock. Next door to up in Horió, has a col lection of architecture. It shelters naive
the town hall, the Maritime Byzantine frescoes and folk 18th-century frescoes and a
Museum has an interesting art. Beyond the museum is rare 15th-century semicircular
record of Sými’s seafaring past. the ruined kástro from icon of the Hospitality of
Gialós is linked to the upper Crusader days, and medieval Abraham by Cretan artist
town, Horió, by a road and also walls. Megáli Panagía church, Stylianós Génis.

The pastel-coloured
houses of Sými town
overlooking the harbour
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