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This private website is our tribute to the gem of the Aegean sea: Samos. You are welcome to link to this site. The majority of photos and text are from the northern part of the island. We hope our site may be a source of inspiration and contributing factor for choosing this beautiful and diverse island as a holiday destination.
Since 1995 we have visited the island 1-3 times per year and have, fond of traditions as we are, always travelled by the same agency and resided in the same cosy hotel, the owners of which (like many other local people) have become dear acquaintances.
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Denne private webside er en hyldest til 'Middelhavets (Ægærhavets!) Perle': Samos. Alle er velkomne til at lave link hertil.
Hovedparten af billeder og tekst knytter sig til øens nordside.
Vi håber indholdet kan være inspirerende og bidrage til, at den skønne ø med al dens mangfoldighed vælges som ferierejsemål.
Vi har siden 1995 besøgt øen 1-3 gange årligt. Altid rejst med samme selskab, haft samme hotel og samme værelse som udgangspunkt for mange pragtfulde oplevelser.
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All kind of information. Photo - Foto - stories - news - how to travel to Samos - rejse til Samos - ticket - billet - webcam - Eupalinos tunnel - Pythagorion - Kokkari - Hotel prices - hotelpriser
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The Church of Saint Nikolaos is the 6'th biggest in Greece and the 3'rd biggest in the Aegean Sea. The church is on 650 sq.m. The total height is 44 m. (incl. the cross on top). Inside it has 36 m. free space under the dome. For the normal ceremonies it has room for 500 people.
The history about the church goes back to before 1902. At that time Samos was an autonomous state under the sultan in Konstantinobel.
Even if Samos was under Turkish control for a longer period, it allways has been Greek-ortodoks.
A local "Lotto-group" won a big sum of money (the lottery was organised from Konstantinobel). They decided to use the money to build a church. After some time they persuaded the monastery owning the area, to transfer a piece of land for the church, and the building began in 1902.
As the church is standing today, it was finished in 1962.
Most of the time during the long building-time, with many breaks due to financial difficulties, the church has been in use for the normal church ceremonies.
The buildingmaterial used for the church comes from Kokkari, from a little island close to Samos town and from Turkey.
All maintenance is done as voluntary work by the local people, and all expences is paid from locally collected funds.
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On one of my many tours to the mountains on the middle of Samos, I met a herdsman rather close to Kokkari. We talked a little (my greek is close to nothing). I showed him a picture of the first herdsman i met on Samos (Manolis Tsambos) and he knew him... We had a little talk about Manolis and I learned, that it does not matter where people are living, but the main thing is where they are born and had their childhood. I thought that Manolis was from Hora (he lives there..) but I was told, that Manolis "sleeps in Hora, but he was from Vourliotes". The herdsman invited me home for a cup of coffee, and told his dogs to take care of the goats....
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