Santorini is an island that has been inhabited for countless centuries. It holds a history that few places on earth can brag to have. And it is still vivid and live to this very day and the best way to taste this island from every prespective is to stay in a
luxury hotel santorini The first traces of a unique and highly advanced civilization are located during the Bronze Age. Unfortunately, it was a civilization before its time and its era ended around 1650 BC. when a powerful volcanic eruption shook the island and stopped the clock of the development of western civilization for about two thousand years. Today we believe that the eruption of the volcano of Santorini was the most powerful volcanic eruption of all time. Ten times more powerful than the eruption of Vesuvius that buried Pompeii and 120 times more powerful than the eruption of St. Helens Volcano in the United States. That catastrophic eruption threw 100 cubic kilometers of volcanic material into the atmosphere, forming a towering column of death, traces of which were found hundreds of miles away. The violent eruption destroyed Akrotiri, burying it under a thick layer of volcanic ash. Unlike Pompeii, no fossil bodies have been found so far, which may mean that its inhabitants may have abandoned it before the final eruption. About 100 kilometers south of Santorini, is Crete. From there, this uncontrollable destructive rage of Nature would seem to the inhabitants of Knossos as the end of the world. For days, strong earthquakes shook the city and the sky was darkened by clouds of ash and gas, which continued to erupt the volcano of Thera, while soon the worst would come.
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