Andros

Andros, a charismatic island by nature, belongs to the Cyclades, one of the main island groups which constitute the Aegean Archipelago. Andros has been described as a stone bead in the magical necklace around the sacred island of Delos.
The island covers an area of about 400 m2, with a shoreline stretching over 60 km. The landscape is characterized by steep mountain peaks and serene hillsides. The presence of natural springs creates lush valleys and ravines, idyllic places with rich vegetation crossed by spring water streams, merging with the sea in natural harbours and quaintly shaped beaches. It is thus no wonder that such a rich and varied landscape offered the ideal ground for such diverse development and became a cradle of human life and creativity.
Its present name, gradually formed through antiquity, reveals its history and polymorphic landscape: Kavron, Adandros, Epagris, Gavros, Lasia, Nonagria, Ydroussa and Andros.
On the southwest coast a cluster of small islands known as Gavrionisia and several reefs have been standing in place for centuries, firm witnesses of the once prevailing unity with the mainland.
Throughout the ages several different tribes inhabited the island. Their unique cultures slowly evolved into one of the oldest civilizations on earth, the Cycladic civilization. Ruins of ancient settlements in the west part of the island, rare finds and impeccable works of art, monuments and historical buildings, written texts and traditions demonstrate the long and amazing journey of this region.
Contemporary Andros has preserved its attractiveness to a traveller seeking to experience perennial wisdom and a serenity of thought, triggered and nourished by the striking iridescent blue of the Aegean Sea.