Santorini, Greece

Visiting the Place of a Massive Volcanic Eruption in the Middle of the Mediterranean

Own photographs accompanied by what science has so far unveiled about this place and what popular culture has imagined. Plus, I recommend you the best tour and guide to visit this all.

You see the shape of the caldera clearly from above. The islands that make up Santorini were once the rim of a volcano that surfaced in what’s today the heart of the Greek Mediterranean. In a massive eruption, the rim cracked, got split into several islands, and seawater filled the caldera:

Two photographs of the caldera that I took from an airplane minutes after it departed from Santorini’s airport on the main island.

It surely would have been a hell of a natural spectacle to contemplate.

The shape of the caldera is crystal clear in Google Maps’ satellite view, too:

Screenshot from Google Maps.

The current landscape of Santorini was modeled over thousands of earthquakes and eruptions among which was one of the largest volcanic events on Earth in human history: the Minoan eruption