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Find cheap flights from Dublin to the Greek Islands and fly to the famous island of Santorini, its blue domes, cool white churches and cloudless skies images that most aptly depict the drama of the sun-drenched Greek islands. Vast swathes of coarse black or red sands shelve quickly into deep blue seas and its unique crescent shape, just 19 kilometres long and 8 kilometres across at its widest point, make Santorini very easy to explore.
Cheap flights from Dublin to the Greek Islands with Excel Airways
Fly to Santorini, an upmarket and tiny Greek island of whitewashed, bougainvillea-clad houses clinging to sheer cliffs set against a background of broad Aegean skies and glistening blue seas. Find the lowest price flights from Dublin to Santorini with Excel Airways and experience the majestic drama of Santorini's impressive volcanic caldera from where there are truly magnificent sunsets atop the cliffs.
Cheap flights from Dublin to the Greek Island of Santorini
The legend of Atlantis
Santorini's ancient volcanic eruption around 1600 BC has led to conjecture that the island could have been home to the lost city of Atlantis. What remains today of this volcanic devastation is a sunken crater, its wall Santorini's inner edge that plunges almost a thousand feet down into the sea whilst whitewashed houses cling to the soaring cliffs above. Around the island's outer edge, extraordinary beaches of black and red volcanic sands drop away into inky blue waters.
Cheap flights from Dublin to the Greek Island of Santorini
Santorini's sophisticated capital of Thira
Perched high on the cliff face overlooking the port below and accessed via cable car or an ascent of over 500 steps, this charming and typical Cycladic village is also a sophisticated and lively resort as well as a popular port of call for visiting cruise ships. With white cubist houses, distinctive blue domed churches and small paved streets, Thira also offers a good choice of restaurants, lively nightlife and excellent shopping and can get quite busy during the summer season.
Cheap flights from Dublin to the Greek Island of Santorini
Picture postcard churches
Away from the crowds, the traditional village of Pyrgos was once Santorini's old capital. Overflowing with churches including the most famous of the Santorini domes, the Monastery of Prophitis Ilias, picturesque Pyrgos is a labyrinth of narrow lanes and traditional Cycladic houses winding up towards the Venetian castle atop the hill. Some of the best views of the island can be seen from here, quite a tribute considering the breathtaking nature of the views elsewhere on the island.
Cheap flights from Dublin to the Greek Island of Santorini
Current volcanic activity
Translated as New Burnt Ground and Old Burnt Ground, the two smouldering islands of Nea Kameni and Palia Kameni in the middle of the Santorini caldera are still volcanically active. Sulphurous steam marks the barren ground of Nea Kameni, a 30-minute hike up from the shores below. For a warm mud bath in the beautiful offshore hot springs, boats anchor in the deeper waters off Palia Kameni for guests to swim over to the muddy shores where the temperatures vary between 30 - 45C.
Cheap flights from Dublin to the Greek Island of Santorini
Clifftop donkey rides
Part of the ancient island of Santorini or Strongili prior to its prehistoric volcanic devastation, the island of Thirassia is now a standard port of call on caldera cruise excursions. Visitors either make the lengthy clifftop ascent up the few hundred steps on foot or can opt for a donkey ride to the top where tavernas are at hand to sit and reflect on the panoramic views down over the Aegean.
Cheap flights from Dublin to the Greek Island of Santorini
Preserved Minoan ruins
Lying on the southern outer rim of Santorini and next to the famous Red Beach, the village of Akrotiri was destroyed in the island's catastrophic volcanic eruption. Like Pompeii, excavations revealed remarkably well preserved Minoan ruins beneath the volcanic ash including intact buildings, pottery, frescoes, furniture and even food remnants. The site is now deemed to be one of the most important Bronze Age settlements in the Mediterranean.
Cheap flights from Dublin to the Greek Island of Santorini
Distinctive local wines
The volcanic soil imparts a quite distinct flavour to the Santorini wines. The predominant grape is the Assyrtiko which yields excellent dry and dessert wines with the vineyards of the Santorini Appellation clustered around the village of Pyrgos. Santorini's dessert wines or 'vinsanto' are probably the most well known of its wines whilst the island's white wines are bone-dry with a unique smoky aroma.
Cheap flights from Dublin to the Greek Islands from Excel Airways - check out the flight only prices to Santorini and other Greek Island resorts
Fly from Dublin to the Greek Islands direct to Santorini with XL.com
Find cheap flights from Dublin to the Greek Islands and fly to the famous island of Santorini, its blue domes, cool white churches and cloudless skies images that most aptly depict the drama of the sun-drenched Greek islands. Vast swathes of coarse black or red sands shelve quickly into deep blue seas and its unique crescent shape, just 19 kilometres long and 8 kilometres across at its widest point, make Santorini very easy to explore.
Cheap flights from Dublin to the Greek Islands with Excel Airways
Fly to Santorini, an upmarket and tiny Greek island of whitewashed, bougainvillea-clad houses clinging to sheer cliffs set against a background of broad Aegean skies and glistening blue seas. Find the lowest price flights from Dublin to Santorini with Excel Airways and experience the majestic drama of Santorini's impressive volcanic caldera from where there are truly magnificent sunsets atop the cliffs.
Cheap flights from Dublin to the Greek Island of Santorini
The legend of Atlantis
Santorini's ancient volcanic eruption around 1600 BC has led to conjecture that the island could have been home to the lost city of Atlantis. What remains today of this volcanic devastation is a sunken crater, its wall Santorini's inner edge that plunges almost a thousand feet down into the sea whilst whitewashed houses cling to the soaring cliffs above. Around the island's outer edge, extraordinary beaches of black and red volcanic sands drop away into inky blue waters.
Cheap flights from Dublin to the Greek Island of Santorini
Santorini's sophisticated capital of Thira
Perched high on the cliff face overlooking the port below and accessed via cable car or an ascent of over 500 steps, this charming and typical Cycladic village is also a sophisticated and lively resort as well as a popular port of call for visiting cruise ships. With white cubist houses, distinctive blue domed churches and small paved streets, Thira also offers a good choice of restaurants, lively nightlife and excellent shopping and can get quite busy during the summer season.
Cheap flights from Dublin to the Greek Island of Santorini
Picture postcard churches
Away from the crowds, the traditional village of Pyrgos was once Santorini's old capital. Overflowing with churches including the most famous of the Santorini domes, the Monastery of Prophitis Ilias, picturesque Pyrgos is a labyrinth of narrow lanes and traditional Cycladic houses winding up towards the Venetian castle atop the hill. Some of the best views of the island can be seen from here, quite a tribute considering the breathtaking nature of the views elsewhere on the island.
Cheap flights from Dublin to the Greek Island of Santorini
Current volcanic activity
Translated as New Burnt Ground and Old Burnt Ground, the two smouldering islands of Nea Kameni and Palia Kameni in the middle of the Santorini caldera are still volcanically active. Sulphurous steam marks the barren ground of Nea Kameni, a 30-minute hike up from the shores below. For a warm mud bath in the beautiful offshore hot springs, boats anchor in the deeper waters off Palia Kameni for guests to swim over to the muddy shores where the temperatures vary between 30 - 45C.
Cheap flights from Dublin to the Greek Island of Santorini
Clifftop donkey rides
Part of the ancient island of Santorini or Strongili prior to its prehistoric volcanic devastation, the island of Thirassia is now a standard port of call on caldera cruise excursions. Visitors either make the lengthy clifftop ascent up the few hundred steps on foot or can opt for a donkey ride to the top where tavernas are at hand to sit and reflect on the panoramic views down over the Aegean.
Cheap flights from Dublin to the Greek Island of Santorini
Preserved Minoan ruins
Lying on the southern outer rim of Santorini and next to the famous Red Beach, the village of Akrotiri was destroyed in the island's catastrophic volcanic eruption. Like Pompeii, excavations revealed remarkably well preserved Minoan ruins beneath the volcanic ash including intact buildings, pottery, frescoes, furniture and even food remnants. The site is now deemed to be one of the most important Bronze Age settlements in the Mediterranean.
Cheap flights from Dublin to the Greek Island of Santorini
Distinctive local wines
The volcanic soil imparts a quite distinct flavour to the Santorini wines. The predominant grape is the Assyrtiko which yields excellent dry and dessert wines with the vineyards of the Santorini Appellation clustered around the village of Pyrgos. Santorini's dessert wines or 'vinsanto' are probably the most well known of its wines whilst the island's white wines are bone-dry with a unique smoky aroma.
Cheap flights from Dublin to the Greek Islands from Excel Airways - check out the flight only prices to Santorini and other Greek Island resorts
