A contemporary brewery experience offering locally made beer, tasting opportunities, food and spacious terraces away from the busiest caldera lanes.
A contemporary brewery experience offering locally made beer, tasting opportunities, food and spacious terraces away from the busiest caldera lanes.
Ftelos Brewery works especially well for craft beer, tastings and groups. The atmosphere is relaxed and modern. Check the official channel before making a special trip, since schedules, events and seasonal opening can change.
Brewery bar, Karterados, Relaxed and modern, Craft beer, Tastings, and Groups
A long-established Fira club with indoor and courtyard spaces, dance-focused music and a central position in the island’s nightlife district.
A caldera-facing cocktail bar with layered terraces and front-row sunset views that make even a simple aperitif feel memorable.
A stylish cliffside lounge pairing caldera scenery with champagne, cocktails and a polished after-dark soundtrack.
A roofed Bronze Age settlement preserved beneath volcanic ash, with streets, buildings and material evidence of a sophisticated Aegean town.
The dense medieval core of Emporio, where vaulted passages, steep lanes and old houses preserve a defensive settlement far from the caldera circuit.
A small design hotel opposite Perivolos Beach, replacing caldera spectacle with black sand, generous suites and an easy indoor-outdoor pace beside the sea.
A much-loved Exo Gonia restaurant serving robust Greek cooking away from the caldera, with a terrace that looks across the island rather than into the sunset crowd.
Santorini’s most important surviving Byzantine church, known for its architecture, marble elements and revered icon near Mesa Gonia.
A quietly influential cliffside retreat in Oia, where centuries-old cave dwellings, an iconic infinity pool and unusually restrained service keep the caldera—not the hotel—at centre stage.
Wine guide
Learn how to read Assyrtiko, Nykteri and Vinsanto, then choose a small number of winery visits that reveal the island’s volcanic vineyard without turning tasting into a race.
Island guide
Step away from the sunset queue for Bronze Age streets, fortified villages, dry-farmed food and an industrial coast that explains the island before tourism.
