🎬 Fascinating picturesque Symi
📍 Symi is a small island belonging to the Dodecanese and is located between Rhodes and Turkey.
✔ Symi is a cosmopolitan island with amazing natural landscapes, an impressive and picturesque capital with a special atmosphere and excellent beaches!
▪ Visitors will be delighted by the picturesque capital and exceptional surroundings.
▪ Symi has good connections by boats and day trips with Rhodes and is visited by many tourists every year. Despite this, Symi has kept its traditional and authentic look.
▪ Known for sponge harvesting and shipbuilding that brought great prosperity to the island, especially in the 19th century when even 25,000 people lived on the island!
▪ After that, when the sponge trade stagnated, many people emigrated from Symi. Today, about 2,500 people live on the island!
▪ Symi is an excellent choice for relaxing and enjoying on the beaches as well as for hiking in incredible natural landscapes. Real pleasure is swimming and diving on beautiful beaches with crystal clear sea.
Fascinating picturesque Symi
From the first moment and entering the port, visitors are fascinated by the incredible architecture of the Symi capital, which is located in the bay on the steep slopes of the hill.
Extraordinary picturesque landscape with wonderful colorful neoclassical two and three-storey stone houses by the sea and on the hill around.
Symi is divided in two parts: Gialos and Chorio. Gialos is a port with charming and gorgeous traditional villas painted in all colors that amaze with their beauty.
The entrance to the port is dominated by an imposing stone clock tower from 1881. After it is the old shipyard.
Chorio is a major part of the capital and is located on a hill that rises steeply above the port. In addition to the asphalt road, the parts are also connected by the “Kali Strata”, about 500 wide stone steps that rise from the Gialos port to the Chorio up in the hill.
The remains of the medieval castro with the beautiful church of Panagia tou Kastrou is a location with a spectacular panoramic view that leaves you breathless!
One of the sights is Pontikokastro on the hill with 20 windmills in ruins. From there you have an amazing view on Gialos port!
Numerous beautiful churches and mansions scattered in the capital speak of the glorious past of Symi!
Μonastery of the Archangel Michael Panormitis
The Monastery of Archangel Michael Panormitis is one of the most important landmarks and the patron of the island of Symi.
It is located in the southwest of the island, 19 km from the Symi capital, in the bay of the same name, Panormitis.
The beautiful monastery was built at the beginning of the 18th century in a picturesque bay right next to the sea and is surrounded by a green hill.
The beauty of the wonderful monastery complex with its impressive high bell tower and the incredible surroundings of the sea and mountains is simply enchanting.
In the monastery church there is an impressive miraculous icon of Archangel Michael covered in silver and gold and a beautiful wooden iconostasis.
Emporeios
A small picturesque traditional place with a small pebble beach surrounded by trees.
It is located in a bay about 3.5 km northwest of the Symi capital.
Location for a peaceful and relaxed vacation.
Pedi
Pedi is a small traditional fishing village located in a valley about 2km east of Symi capital.
Located in a bay surrounded by mountains with a small stone beach and a couple of taverns where you can try delicious dishes.
There are 2 excellent beaches in the area, Agia Marina and Agios Nikolaos, accessible on foot, as well as by boat from the capital.
Simi beaches
Symi has excellent pebble beaches with amazing nature landscapes and crystal clear water. The picturesque scenery and deep sea are ideal for swimming and diving, as well as enjoying on the Sun.
Many beaches are only accessible by boat and cruise lovers will enjoy in those sea adventures.
▪ Symi beaches. My recommendation! ⬇
1️⃣ Agios Georgios Disalonas
2️⃣ Nanou
3️⃣ Agia Marina
4️⃣ Agios Nikolaos
5️⃣ Emporeio
6️⃣ Marathounta
7️⃣ Plaka
8️⃣ Faneromeni
9️⃣ Pedi
Agios Georgios Disalonas beach
Agios Georgios Disalonas is the most beautiful beach of Symi! Only available by boat!
A fantastic bay with an impressive appearance that takes your breath away at the first sight on the imposing vertical rocks that surround this natural wonder.
Agios Georgios is an incredible place and an ideal beach for swimming and diving. A paradise for lovers of adventure and exceptional natural locations!
On the beach there is a small church after which the beach is named.
Nanou beach
Nanou is an amazing beach located in a large picturesque bay surrounded by imposing mountains!
The beach is pebbly with stunning crystal clear deep water and excellent for swimming and snorkeling.
Available by boat and by land! There is also a tavern on the beach where you can enjoy local food.
