Overview of Cyclades Archipelago Attractions

Cyclades have been inhabited since the Neolithic period. Their heyday was in the 3rd millennium B.C., when the famous Cycladic culture existed here. The Cycladic civilization is even older than the Minoan civilization which then developed in parallel and produced outstanding works of art such as the wonderful Cycladic idols (small statues representing humans).

Today the Cyclades are often called the white islands because the local villages, built in the tradition of famous Cycladic architecture, appear snow-white on the mostly bare ground, forming a magnificent contrast with the lush blue color of the sea.

There are only 33 (out of 2200) inhabited islands in the Cyclades. They are mostly visited by yachts.

Each of the inhabited islands of the Cyclades is interesting in its own way. They are all related to Greek mythology. For example, Delos, which is the conditional center of the Cyclades, was the birthplace of Apollo.

The island of Milos is known worldwide for the fact that there was found the famous statue of Aphrodite (Venus), which now decorates the Louvre Museum.

If you had to choose the most impressive of the many sights in Greece, there is no doubt that one of them would be Santorini. It is an island that, according to one version, is the vanished Atlantis.