Tinos, the island of Virgin Mary

Tinos is without doubt one of the most gifted islands. With the cultural and religious heritage, with intact natural beauty and hospitality of its people, each year attracts thousands of tourists. Visitors of Tinos can admire the island's landscape, the island architecture, art and crafts of the inhabitants. The ever-growing tourist infrastructure expands the range of tourists. Tourists, who will choose Tinos for the holidays, choose the best location to enjoy sun, sea and all its pristine beauty known and unknown, with hundreds of pigeon, masterpieces of craftsmanship and sensitivity and a thousand chapels of Cycladic architecture nestled in the ravines, or perched in the hills.

Tinos is the third largest island in the Cyclades after Andros and Naxos. It belongs to the northern Cyclades, located southeast of Andros and northwest of Mykonos. The distance from Andros  (at the Strait named) is just 1/2 miles and the nearest beaches of Mykonos is approximately 11 miles. Southwest of the island, 9 miles away is Syros, the capital of Cyclades. Tsiknias, located in the east, is the tallest mountain on the island with 726 meters height. In the central part is dominated the craggy rock of Exombourgo with 641 meters height with the ancient Venetian town, and the plateau of the "war valley" seems to hide many secrets, waiting the one to reveal them. The total coastline is estimated at 114 km. and the circumnavigation of the coast a short distance from shore requires sailing some 37 nautical miles. The climate is generally mild. The winter is mild and summer with the cool sea breeze. The thermometer in winter rarely drops to zero, in summer rarely exceed 37th Kelsious. The land is generally mountainous with altitudes not exceeding 720 meters. There are great forests and plains. Feature in most of the island is the sloping of the soil so that the fields show picture of large stairs separated by low walls.