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Oxia Agía Thea Apartments
Nos Marína
Emboriós Beach Beach In a colourful house in
the centre of town, this
Agios
Sými Town Nikólaos hotel offers charming
Beach
Moní Taxiárhi Pédi rooms with views and a
Mihaïl Roukounióti friendly host.
Bígla
Cape 617 m (2,024 ft) ⌂ Egialos, Sými
Kefála ∑ symi-thea.gr
East Coast
Bays
¡¡¡
Ágios
Pidima Vasílios Nanoú Beach
Beach Iapetos Village
Gialesino
Self-catering bungalow
Megalonisi complex around a
Sými Marathoúnda covered pool and
Beach
landscaped grounds.
Panormítis ⌂ Gialós, Sými, 100 m
Beach (328 ft) from the
Moní Taxiárhi
Mihaïl Panormítis main square
∑ iapetos-village.gr
¡¡¡
0 kilometres 3 N
Sesklí
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This 1895 mansion
right on the water is
now Sými’s most
3 interior is a dazzling array of exclusive hotel.
votive offerings, or támata,
Moní Taxiárhi from pilgrims, includ ing model ⌂ Harani quay, Gialós,
Mihaïl Panormítis ships in silver and gold. The SÝmi ∑ symi-hotel-
walls and ceiling are covered aliki.gr
⌂ 19 km (12 miles) S ¡¡¡
of Sými town in smoke­blackened 18th­
century frescoes by the two
Sými’s most popular sight is Sýmiot brothers Nikítas and
the enormous Moní Taxiárhi Michaïl Karakostís.
Mihaïl Panormítis in Panormítis The sacristy museum is full
bay, a place of pilgrimage for of treasures, including a post­ trees leads through farmland
Greek sailors worldwide. An Byzantine icon of the Ágii to Pédi bay, a beach popular
icon of Archangel Michael, Déka (The Ten Holy Martyrs) with fishermen, visiting yachts
Sými’s patron saint and guard­ by Creto­Venetian master and local families. From here
ian of seafarers, was found Theodoros Poulakis. There are taxi boats run to Ágios Nikólaos
here; despite being removed prayers in bottles, which have beach and there are marked
to Gialós, it kept returning to floated mira culous ly into paths to sandy Ágios Nikólaos
Panormítis so the monastery Pan ormítis; if they arrived and shingly Agía Marína.
was founded. Its white build­ safely, the sailor would get Nanoú, with mixed gravel,
ings, spanning the 18th to his prayer answered. sand and small pebbles, has a
20th centuries, sit slightly scenic backdrop, good snor­
back from a horse shoe­ kelling and a snack bar.
shaped harbour. The rather 4 Marathoúnda, the next bay
elaborate mock­Baroque south, is reached through the
belfry is a 1905 copy of the East Coast Bays woodlands. It has a coarser­
famous, now vanished, bell ⌂ 4 km (2 miles) E pebble beach, but pristine
tower of Agía Fotiní in Smýrna. of Sými town water and a friendly, taverna,
According to tradition, if and can be driven to by using
you ask a favour of St Michael, Sými’s most popular beaches a turning off the Panormítis
you must vow to give some­ are on the east coast. East of road. Beware importuning
thing in return. As a result, the Horió, an avenue of eucalyptus goats, however, at both.
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