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Word: santorin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1961-1961
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Relying on the interisland liners, charter yachts, or smaller, 30-ft. caïques that sleep two or three (for $40 a day), travelers can move on southeast to the Cyclades: Santorin, with its unearthly landscape; Paros, from which the masters quarried their famous marble; and Mykonos, which has lately become a kind of Grecian Capri. For 50?, travelers can make the round-trip caïque ride to nearby Delos, Apollo's birthplace, which the Greek government maintains as an uncommercialized museum. There, in an eerie, glaring white silence, are the remarkable ruins of houses, theaters and temples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Beyond the Horizon | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

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