Snowy-white houses with traditional chimneys made of potter’s
clay and small churches with blue domes, built on green hills,
which lead to sandy beaches. This is Sifnos, the gem of Cyclades.
The capital is Apollonia since 1836, which is also called Stavri
and which is sprawling out amphitheatrically along three hills
in the center of Sifnos, while at the west there is the port,
Kamares. Northwards from Apollonia there is Artemonas, a jewel
of Sifnos, with neoclassic mansions, with gardens and flowery
courtyards,
while from the one side of Apollonia stand
Ano Petali and from the other Katavati and Exambella.
Other beautiful coastal summer resorts are Platis Gialos, Faros,
Chrissopigi, Vathi, Kastro and Cheronissos.
Sifnos is the homeland of the great cook
Nikos Tselemendes, and it has a delicious cuisine with
traditional dishes! Make sure you try
some of Sifnos’ specialties, such as revithokeftedes
(chickpea-balls), manoura or mizethra (local cheese), chickpeas
cooked in the oven and lamb cooked in mastelo (special ceramic
pot). Sifnos island is not known only
for its natural beauties, but also for its famous pottery art!
Hotels, rooms and apartments can be found at almost all the
villages of Sifnos, as well as at many beaches. At
this website,
you can find information on all the
rooms, hotels, apartments and resorts of Sifnos island.
A little more about Sifnos island…
At the Cycladic
landscape civilization flourished through the daily routine, the
celebrations, the religious festivals, the whitewashing of the
house taking care of the cobbled lanes, the maintenance of the
dry stone walls in the fields, the wise cultivation of the land,
the creation of works of art for clay, the picking of the
olives, the meeting with the saltiness of the sea. The houses
harmoniously woven knitted with the natural landscape even today
emphasize the need for the respect of the civilization with
which they harmoniously boarded with the passing of the
centuries.
Here, at Sifnos,
one still can find routes lined with stones, forests with
cedar-trees and oak-trees, lentisk and olives groves, sand hills
and sea plants (like little lilies) which are threatened with
extinction from the Mediterranean coasts. Today we are invited
to pass into a future which is much friendlier towards
civilizations and the environments which were both created and
respected by previous generations.
