Ormos Athinios

Órmos Athiniós lies beneath steep volcanic cliffs banded with colour on Santorini, its road climbing to the clifftop in hairpins. Before it, Skala, below Fira, was the island's main harbour, passengers hauled up by donkey. The new port was developed for the tourist boom of the late twentieth century, and its quays were completed between 2006 and 2008. It is now the island's only port with scheduled ferry services. My photographs show the wide concrete quay with coaches parked, a dark-hulled ro-ro ferry and a Seajets catamaran berthed alongside, and crowds with wheeled suitcases waiting below the bare rock.

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