This medieval settlement of steep little streets is the Catholic district of Ermoupoli, comprising houses, alleys, little squares and tiny gardens. The main entrance, Portara, leads to the Plaka quarter with shops and tavernas. Note the memorial to t..

Siros is a country in miniature: a capital with two cathedrals (Catholic and Orthodox), a deep-water bay, naval dockyards, an airport, mountains, a wild coastline, inlets and beaches, resorts, fertile plains and a landscape dotted by villages and mon..

Like a sprinkling of white dust on the waves, the Cyclades make up a nome (like a UK county) at the heart of the islands of the Aegean. The capital is Ermoupoli on Siros. These arid islands are beautiful in the purest sense, their whitewashed angular..