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Megalochori – Attractive peaceful traditional Santorini village
Megalochori is an old picturesque traditional village on a high plain under Mount Profitias Elias in the interior of the south of the island of Santorini. Megalochori holidays offer small village atmosphere with the locals going about their daily business. Megalochori has attractive narrow cobbled streets with hundreds of typical traditional whitewashed interlocking houses built one on top of the other down the hillside. Holidays in Megalochori are peaceful and relatively uncommercialised with a nice selection of restaurants, bars and traditional cafes. The village is an appealing jumble of typical Santorini styles with flower-filled courtyards, a traditional village square with tavernas, and attractive and unusual local churches. Megalochi is the most important wine growing area on the island with at least three of Santorini’s biggest wineries based around the village. The wineries and their cellars are open to the public and well worth a visit. Megalochori is a fascinating hive of activity during the grape harvest.
Holidays in Megalochori – Quiet base for southern sandy beaches
Holidays in Megalochori can enjoy the beaches on the east and south of the island. To the east is the popular beach resort of Perissa with miles of black sand and to the south-west is the pleasant village of Akrotiri below which is the famous Red Beach with its amazing red lava cliffs. Another popular Megalochori holiday destination is Vlyhada beach, one of the quietest on the island.
Megalochori holidays – Traditional village amid vineyards
Walkers on holiday in Megalochori will enjoy the small paths that run into the surrounding countryside passing vineyards, traditional settlements and lots of pretty churches. Megalochori holidays offer a quiet and pretty inland base for exploring Santorini as the village is just 6 miles south-east of the capital Fira. Holidays in Megalochori are not complete without visiting other Santorini beauty spots like Oia, a fascinating jumble of narrow streets full of stone steps, terraces, courtyards, leafy squares, blue-domed churches and tastefully restored stone houses or Fira, the unique sparkling white capital in an astonishing cliffside location.
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