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Samos travel guide

about Samos

Samos (Greek Σαμος) is an island in southeastern Greece in the Aegean Sea, near the coast of Turkey. It is located between the island of Chios to the North and the Dodecanese Islands to the South. Products include tobacco, wine, olive oil, and citrus fruit. With the neighbouring islands of Ikaria and Fourni, the island of Samos is administered as part of Samos prefecture (nómos). Its capital and main port is the city of Vathí, also called Samos; other ports are Karlóvassi and Pythagóreion, formerly called Tigáni.

In classical times the island was a center of Ionian culture and luxury, known for its wines and its red pottery (called Samian ware by the Romans). Its most famous building, for a brief time, was the archaic Ionic Temple of Hera (Heraion), built by the architects Rhoikos and Theodoros ca 540 BCE, which stood opposite the cult altar of Hera in her sanctuary. It was a dipteral temple, that is with a portico of columns two deep, which surrounded it entirely (a peripteral temple). It had a deep square roofed pronaos in front of a closed cella. Cella and pronaos were divided into three equal aisles by two rows of columns that marched down the pronaos and through the temple. The result was that Hera was worshipped in a temple fitted within a stylized grove of columns, eight across and 21 deep. The columns stood on unusual bases that were horizontally fluted.

The Heraion of Samos was the first of the gigantic Ionic temples. Unfortunately it stood for only about a decade before it was destroyed, probably by an earthquake. One of the giant statues from the Heraion survives in the Samos Archaeological Museum.

Near cities to Samos

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• Chios travel guide 110 km
• Denizli travel guide 180 km
• Corum travel guide 210 km
• Paiania travel guide 280 km
• Vrilissia travel guide 280 km
• Athens travel guide 290 km
• Kallithea travel guide 290 km
• Aspropyrgos travel guide 300 km

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