http://www.SamosExclusive.com came online as we promised to all of the Samos lovers. This website is just reporting. Samos is a relatively big island.
We were delighted to launch our website the exact same day of Google's 13th anniversary. This guide embraces all tourists coming to Samos, as well as local businesses, to find the exclusiveness of this island. Our purpose is to present to our Samos travelers, the best locations to visit, stay and enjoy in Samos for unique and unforgettable experiences. Samos is a marvelous isle with a lot undiscov
ered values and outspoken history. STAY TUNED IN THIS PAGE AS YOU WILL DISCOVER AMAZING AND UNIQUE BEAUTIES OF THIS STUNNING GREEN ISLAND AND SAMOS PEOPLE. You're going to be surprised by the variety of this lovely isle when it comes to places to stay and locations to enjoy your holiday. SamosExclusive.com is determined to discover and reveal to you all these best places, with unbiased critiques from our team and all these tourists who visit this isle since long years back. It is our ambition to collect many reports and judgments for you to discover the locations to go to. Even in advance we offer an opportunity to communicate directly with the people of Samos, without intermediaries.Why are we unbiased? We are not creating any opinions, it's tourists from all over the world, that write their impression on SamosExclusive.com. The island's name "Samos" comes from Phoenician meaning "rise by the shore", according to Strabo a Greek geographer. This rather big island is in the centre of the Aegean Sea and only 1200 meters divide it from Turkey. Samos is located between the parallels 37.49 and 37.37 to the North and the meridians 26.33 and 27.04 to the East. The island has an extent of 477.395 km2, which makes it one of the biggest islands of Greece. East of the island you can find Turkey and Minor Asia,, north of Samos is the Cherosonese of Erythrea, the island of Chios is situated northwest of Samos, to the West and Southwest you can find Ikaria and the Fournoi islands and the Dodecanese is south of Samos. On the island you can find every kind of landscapes, from lacy shores, to green mountains and endless vineyards, which produce the island's sweet wine. The outline of the isle is rather hilly, with two significant mountains, the Kerki, which is rocky and wild and 1443m high and the Ambelos of 1160m height. Due to the hilly landscape there are few plains, the biggest one is the plain of Chora. This flat incloses the villages Pythagorion, Chora, Pagondas and Miloi. Samo's ground is rather fertile and in combination to the temperate climate - cool summer and warm winter - creates the ideal conditions for the cultivation of olive groves. This conditions also give the great taste to the famous samian vine, which is renowned from ancient times. Even today, wine remains the main product of Samos. The people on this beautiful island can enjoy around 3300 hours of sunshine per years, which makes Samos one of the sunniest places in Europe. The sun shine almost 3/4 of the year. Everything we know about the island of Samos nowadays comes mainly from mythology and tradition but the isle was occupied as early as the 3rd millennium before Christ. The goddess Hera was born on this gorgeous island, in the banks of the river Imvrassos, according to mythology. Today, in this location visitors can see the remains of a temple dedicated to her. It is an imposing building, one of the biggest and most important of its era. In the 6th century the ruler Polycrates made Samos the commercial and marine power of the time. Also it was one of the most important centers of the Ionian civilization with excellent technical works and monuments, among which the Eupalinos’ tunnel, the temple of Hera, theaters and palaces. Also in intellectual matters Samos was one of the pioneers in this era, the renowned library was launched and soon the island became the centre of the intellectual activity in this period. This library assembled all the written sources of this era. Samos is the birthplace of both the great mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras, whose theories had a great effect on mathematics and Aristarchus an astronomer and mathematician who is celebrated as the first to propose a sun-centred universe. But the island did not stop to develop, the tourist infrastructure meets all wishes, you can find beautiful beaches and any kind of accommodation all over the island. The variety of hotels in Samos, assures you to spend an unforgettable vacation, may it be in Vathi, the capital, in Pythagorion, Karlovasi or Kokkari, the islands attractions on this beautiful island won't disappoint any visitor! Samos offers various options for entertainment and cultural activity, which leaves visitors with a sweet taste.
