Qualla: Agios Kirykos https://qualla.com/agios-kirykos en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/t/agios-kirykos-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Agios Kirykos https://qualla.com/agios-kirykos Agios Kirykos: Introduction https://qualla.com/agios-kirykos/ Photo credit Waldviertler at German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.0 de. The town is named for a martyr who died at the age of three. Saint Kirykos, or Quiricus, the youngest saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church, was killed in Asia Minor as a small child, and the cathedral of this little harbour town on Ikaria is dedicated to him. It is a strange and tender thing to build a capital around the memory of a toddler, but Agios Kirykos has always been a place of contrasts: a sleepy plateia by day and a town that does not sleep at all by night, calm summer seas and winters so violent they reshape the shore.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/t/agios-kirykos-wp/swdt-agios-kirykos-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Agios Kirykos: Capital of Ikaria https://qualla.com/agios-kirykos/ Photo credit Man77, Public domain. Agios Kirykos is the administrative capital of Ikaria, the island in the North Aegean named in myth for Icarus, who fell from the sky nearby. The town had 2,958 residents at the 2021 census, with 3,565 in the wider municipal unit, which also governs the small Fourni islands offsh...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/t/agios-kirykos-wp/swdt-agios-kirykos-capital-of-ikaria.mp3 0:06 2 full Agios Kirykos: The Radioactive Waters https://qualla.com/agios-kirykos/ Photo credit George Tsiagalakis, CC BY-SA 4.0. Just five minutes east lies Therma, and Therma is the reason people have come to this corner of Ikaria for over two thousand years. Its saline hot springs hold the largest concentration of radon in Greece and rank among the most radioactive springs in the world, their waters surf...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/t/agios-kirykos-wp/swdt-agios-kirykos-the-radioactive-waters.mp3 0:06 3 full Agios Kirykos: Two Faces of the Sea https://qualla.com/agios-kirykos/ Photo credit Man77, Public domain. The weather here lives a double life. In summer the water is usually calm and it hardly ever rains, with clear skies dominating day after day. Then winter arrives and the town becomes another place entirely. Constant storms pelt the coast, the waves grow too rough to swim in, and...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/t/agios-kirykos-wp/swdt-agios-kirykos-two-faces-of-the-sea.mp3 0:06 4 full Agios Kirykos: Late Nights and Long History https://qualla.com/agios-kirykos/ Photo credit Stelios Kiousis, CC BY-SA 2.0. Life in Agios Kirykos runs on its own clock. The plateia, the town square ringed by restaurants and public buildings, comes alive from mid-morning to early afternoon, empties for the customary nap, then surges back between eight and eleven at night as families dine and the young ...

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