Qualla: Amorgos https://qualla.com/amorgos 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/3/amorgos-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Amorgos https://qualla.com/amorgos Amorgos: Introduction https://qualla.com/amorgos/ Photo credit KenSwe72, CC BY-SA 3.0. Wikivoyage calls Amorgos "strange, obscure and charming," and all three words earn their place. This is the easternmost of the Cyclades, a slender ridge of an island that drops to the sea in cliffs on its southern flank and unrolls into terraced hillsides on its northern one. There are no big resorts here, no airport, no easy way in. You arrive by boat, the way travelers always have, and that small friction is exactly what has kept Amorgos feeling like a place out of step with the rest of the Aegean.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/3/amorgos-wk/swd3-amorgos-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Amorgos: Arriving the Old Way https://qualla.com/amorgos/ Photo credit Kkanak, CC BY-SA 4.0. Amorgos has two ports at opposite ends of its long body: Katapola in the middle, where the big Blue Star ferries from Piraeus call after a voyage of around nine hours, and Aegiali at the northeastern tip. The road between them is rough enough that locals will tell you it is often...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/3/amorgos-wk/swd3-amorgos-arriving-the-old-way.mp3 0:06 2 full Amorgos: Deep Roots https://qualla.com/amorgos/ Photo credit Oliwan, CC BY-SA 3.0. People have lived on Amorgos for an extraordinarily long time. Tombs here have been dated to around 3300 BC, and in the Early Cycladic period three separate settlements grew along the northern coast, each founded by a different people: Naxians at Kastri in the southwest, Samians ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/3/amorgos-wk/swd3-amorgos-deep-roots.mp3 0:06 3 full Amorgos: The Embroiderers' Island https://qualla.com/amorgos/ Photo credit Zde, CC BY-SA 3.0. For centuries the women of Amorgos made embroideries so fine they commanded high prices far beyond the Aegean and propped up the island economy. The very best of that work no longer stays here. Some of the finest surviving pieces hang in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/3/amorgos-wk/swd3-amorgos-the-embroiderers-island.mp3 0:06 4 full Amorgos: The Big Blue https://qualla.com/amorgos/ Photo credit Fbarbe, CC BY-SA 4.0. In the late 1980s the French director Luc Besson came to Amorgos to film "Le Grand Bleu," released in English as "The Big Blue," a story of two rival free-divers. The movie became a cult sensation across Europe and made this once-anonymous island famous overnight. Besson's camera...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/3/amorgos-wk/swd3-amorgos-the-big-blue.mp3 0:06 5 full Amorgos: Island Time https://qualla.com/amorgos/ Photo credit Kkanak, CC BY-SA 4.0. Amorgos rewards those who slow down. Old marble-paved donkey trails crisscross the island, still polished by hooves, linking villages and hidden coves. Hike up near Aegiali at sunrise, or down to a beach you reach only on foot, and you will likely have it to yourself. End the day...

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