Santorini Akrotiri

Once entering it’s only a short walk to the excavation site. You will notice straight away, and it is a bit detrimental to the visit, that there is a great deal of scaffolding blocking your view. A ‘bioclimatic structure’ is being constructed and the work goes on around you as you walk round the 35-century-old site.
You also realize that what you actually see could be just a small percentage of the actual remains; work is still continuing on discovering the town. One final word of warning: the frescoes which you may have heard about before going to the site are not in evidence. There may be pictures but the real things are now in the National Archeological Museum of Athens.

All this aside, you will notice as you enter the sharp smell of dust and you can at once notice the ash from under which the site was uncovered in 1967. Many of the houses are in amazing condition and, if you look closely, you can see some possessions left behind when eruptions warned the town’s inhabitants to abandon it. You walk in a circular type fashion around the site and some of the main things to look out for are the triangular square where the buildings stand high and you can marvel at how they have been preserved. Things like the drainage system which you can clearly see show how advanced the Minoan civilization was.
Akrotiri village