Tinos is one of the islands GriecheCyclades, which are convenient in the Aegean sea of 161 kilometers southeast of the mainland gate of Piraeus. It is one of the calmest and unspoilt all hauptinseln in the Archipelago and dresses mainly pious Pilgrims, here to the Anbetung at one sacred the place of assembly crowds, which is the Greek version of Lourdes. The island is a paradies for hikers and those, which look for a taste of the traditional Greek life, far from the Sommermayhem and round dtaktgeberpartying from neighbouring Mykonos. Of the island does not have an airport, but there are some ferries each day from Piraeus (five hours) and regular hydrofoilservices Piraeus and Rafina. And hydrofoildienstleistungen attach Tinos with Mykonos and the other hauptInseln Cycladic ferry. Tinos is even a Oasis of the peace, in which it is possible to find uncrowded beaches on the height of the season. There are some domestic villages of the attractive which can be investigated unspoilt, the remote ways, which her by the green and and the shady, cheap take mountain hinterland tavernas, in those you, the only international tourist be could. The largest attraction of the island - undoubted, if the Greek reliable - is the holy icon, which is included in the church by Panagia Evangelistria in the city Tinos. The icon is a description of the virgin Mary and kneels in the prayer, to that time of their announcement (when the angel Gabriel before it seemed and announced that it should become the nut/mother of the God). Thousands believers thus convinced energies are, on the icon that them their hands of miraculous welfare-end and knees creep completely from the gate to the Anbetung before it. The icon after a now, sister Pelagia, had a sight of the virgin Mary it, to the field to lead discovered, where she puts to bury. A church was established on the point, in which Exkavatoren opened the icon, which is now bedecked also gold, diamond and beads and on announcement on the left side of the central course. The church accommodates also hundreds of gifts thanks of the many, which believe that their "miracles" healings are a direct result of their Pilgrimage to the church of Panagia Evangelistria. If your attendance agrees shrine to Tinos with one of the four Hauptpilgrimages to, you are hardpressed, in order to find adjustment, it is you months in advance to have announced. The Massenpilgrimages finds on January 30., which anniversary of finding the icon, March 25., which celebration of the announcement of Mary, July 23., which is the anniversary the sight Nuns and August 15., the celebration of the acceptance of Mary. Tinos is more pepper famed also for its durchdacht verzierten dovecotes, those the island. To pigeon-breed by the Venetians one introduced, many of the Greek islands of 14. Century forward steered. There is more as 1,300 in the villages too findene dovecotes, once on pigeons than source of main food was based. The ruins of a venetianischen Fortress, the Exobourgo, are others of the differentiating characteristics of the island. The Fortress, established on a 640-Meter-Einfassung, was the most durable Stronghold in the Cyclades - which place, in which the Venetians formed their last location against the Turkish intruders 1715. Of an ascent to the top side of one of the surrounding villages is worth it for the wonderful opinions Tinos and the neighbouring islands hard work however probably.
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