The Best Kept Secret of the Cyclades

Claudia Hilmbauer, 23.03.2023

Naxos, Mykonos and Santorini - A few of the most famous islands of the Cyclades. More unknown, but no less charming, is Tinos with its 50 small villages.

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Barely 9,000 inhabitants live on the approximately 196 square kilometer island in the southern Aegean Sea. It is often overlooked by travelers to Greece. It is too overshadowed by glamorous Mykonos or the equally famous Santorin. Tinos is still an insider tip for the Cyclades, although in Greek mythology it is the birthplace of the wind god Aiolos. And it also plays a role in the Christian religion - as a place of pilgrimage to Mary. What else the island scores with:

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