Kithira Island National Airport "Alexandros Aristotelous Onassis" travel guide

Top 8 sights in Kithira Island National Airport "Alexandros Aristotelous Onassis"

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   Antikythera mechanism

   A geared bronze mechanism of the second century BC, recovered from a wreck off Antikythera in 1901 and understood only after X-ray work decades later. It predicted eclipses and the positions of the planets; nothing of comparable complexity is known for another fourteen centuries.

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   Pavlopetri

   A Bronze Age town lying in three or four metres of water off the Laconian coast, with its streets, house walls and graves still legible on the sea floor. At about five thousand years old it is the oldest submerged town site known anywhere.

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   HMS Gloucester

   A Town-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the late 1930s. Commissioned in August 1939, she hunted German raiders off China, in the Indian Ocean and off South Africa before joining the Mediterranean Fleet in mid-1940 to escort the Malta convoys.

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   Antikythera wreck

   A Roman shipwreck of the second quarter of the first century BC. Sponge divers found it off the Greek island of Antikythera in 1900; along with statuary and coins it yielded the Antikythera mechanism, regarded as the oldest analogue computer in the world.

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   HMS Greyhound

   A Royal Navy destroyer of the 1930s that served off Norway, at Dunkirk and at Dakar in 1940 before joining the Mediterranean fleet. She was bombed and sunk off Crete in May 1941.

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   Monemvasia Mosque

   A former mosque in the lower town of Monemvasia in the Peloponnese. Built under the Ottomans in 1540, it was abandoned after Greek independence in 1830 and briefly used as a prison; since 1999 it has held the town's historical museum.

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   HMS Diamond

   A D-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. She spent most of her service on the China station, was briefly with the Mediterranean Fleet in 1939, and then escorted convoys off West Africa.

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   Church of Agia Sofia

   A Byzantine church in the upper town of Monemvasia in the southern Peloponnese in Greece. It was originally dedicated to the Virgin Hodegetria and forms part of the Monemvasia site.

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