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An authentic trip to glamorous Andros island with unique sites, character, and history. Known as “Micra Anglia” (Little England) the main town (Chora) is one of the best-preserved old towns in Greece, with charming houses of Venetian, Neoclassical & Classic Cycladic Architecture; a joy to wander through.
Your tour leader will pick you up from your Athens hotel, drive with you to Rafina port to board with you the passenger boat to reach Andros in 2 hours. He/she will guide you while on Andros island allowing you to explore and “taste” the best part of it.
You will drive and explore both the coastline and mountains of the island, spending time in Chora, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and enjoying lunch & drinks at the most authentic location before heading back to the port for the return to the mainland & to Athens.
We arrange everything for you, and we create a great authentic experience. Andros is the choice of the Greeks/Athenians that don’t want to be treated like tourists!
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Duration: 9 to 10 hours
Starts: Athens, Greece
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Athens, Attica, Greece
An authentic trip to glamorous Andros island with unique sites, character, and history. Known as “Micra Anglia” (Little England) the main town (Chora) is one of the best-preserved old towns in Greece, with charming houses of Venetian, Neoclassical & Classic Cycladic Architecture; a joy to wander through.
Your tour leader will pick you up from your Athens hotel, drive with you to Rafina port to board with you the passenger boat to reach Andros in 2 hours. He/she will guide you while on Andros island allowing you to explore and “taste” the best part of it.
You will drive and explore both the coastline and mountains of the island, spending time in Chora, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and enjoying lunch & drinks at the most authentic location before heading back to the port for the return to the mainland & to Athens.
We arrange everything for you, and we create a great authentic experience. Andros is the choice of the Greeks/Athenians that don’t want to be treated like tourists!
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Rafina Port, Rafina 19009 Greece
Pick up from your Athens hotel to arrive at Rafina port (50 min) to catch the ferry to Andros island for a two-hour ferry-trip. Arrival at Gavrio port which is the main port of the island.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Andros Town, Andros Town, Andros, Cyclades, South Aegean
Along the coastline and then we climb up the mountains to explore and finally reach the east side of the island and the amazing Chora of the rugged Andros island known as Micra Anglia (Little England).
You will find out why Locals still joke that you have to get your passport stamped to enter Chora. At dusk, the locals pull up chairs to watch boys dribble footballs between marble benches, plinths topped with busts of poets, professors and war heroes.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Goulandris Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros, Vasilis and Elizas Goulandri St, Andros Town 845 00 Greece
The Museum of Contemporary Art was built by the ship-owning socialites Basil and Elise Goulandris to showcase their $3billion modern art collection in 1979. The museum established its reputation with blockbuster summer shows by artists such as Picasso, Braque, Moore and Miró.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Cyclades Olive Museum, 6 km from Andros town towards Batsi, Pitrofos 84500 Greece
The olive mill in Pitrofos is a fine example of a small, pre-industrial, animal-powered olive oil production unit. Its facade and internal stonework have been beautifully restored, preserving all the important original features that are typical of Cycladic island architecture and agriculture of the period.
In most olive mills on Andros the whole production process was carried out in one small room. In contrast, the Pitrofos mill was separated into a number of different rooms where different stages of the process were carried out.
The owner, Dimitris Chelmis, personally explains all the stages of the oil production process: the animal powered mill in one room, the cleverly engineered press in another, and finally the storage room where temperatures were naturally regulated by the design and construction of its massive walls. The finer details of “extra virgin” and “cold-pressed” olive oil are clearly explained and visitors will never look at olive oil the same way again.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Archaeological Museum of Paleopolis, Palaiopoli, 845 00 Greece
The Archaeological Museum of Palaeopolis inaugurated in 2003 and is dedicated to the antiquities of Palaeopolis, which was -for twelve centuries- the capital of the island. It is housed in a building, donated to the Community of Palaiopolis by the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation. The museum contains collections of sculptures, statues, coins and inscriptions found in the excavations of ancient Palaeopolis. (ΔΗΜΟΣ ΑΝΔΡΟΥ)
Duration: 25 minutes
Stop At: Cyclades Olive Museum, 6 km from Andros town towards Batsi, Pitrofos 84500 Greece
The olive mill in Pitrofos, also known as the Pitrofos “vida” takes up most of the ground floor (“katogi”) of a two storey stone building.
The mill is a fine example of a small, pre-industrial, animal-powered olive oil production unit. Its facade and internal stonework have been beautifully restored, preserving all the important original features that are typical of Cycladic island architecture and agriculture of the period.
Duration: 40 minutes
Stop At: Zorkos Beach, 845 01 Greece
Ignore the beach name; it’s only because we don’t want to give away or … lunch location. We’ll enjoy lunch & drinks at a place where the owners still raise cows and sheep, which supply milk for fresh homemade cheese and delectable lamb chops, and he also grows many of the taverna’s vegetables.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes
Stop At: Gavrio, Gavrio, Andros, Cyclades, South Aegean
Back on the boat to head for the mainland and your Athens base/hotel
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Andros, Andros, Cyclades, South Aegean
OPTIONALLY: You can add an extra day/overnight at Andros to further explore the 2nd biggest island of the Cyclades which is also famous for its an impressive network of over 300km of footpaths.
Duration: 1 day
