The Museum opened up in September 2008 and it is housed over Adamantas harbor, in the building of the island’s old Community. It was realized by the efforts of the doctor Petros Armenis in order to gather plenty of exhibits relating to the naval activity in Milos. The exhibits go back to the prehistoric age, with tools made of obsidian, then we move historically to the battle of Salamis and finally we reach the modern times. In the Naval Museum you are given the chance to admire also rare maps, made by special cartographers as well as the wooden boat “Irene”.
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Very close to Adamantas port, the church of The Holy Trinity is located, where the Church Museum is housed. This church, which is over a thousand years old, is characterized as “crossed-shaped three-aisled basilica with troulokamara (arched-dome)”, since it is made of three aisles on which the dome rises vertically having the shape as the temple. This type of church is very rare (there is only one more such church, in Peloponnesus, in Levidi, Arcadia) and it is an interested architectural monument. Initially it was made so as to serve as a monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary of Theofani, but in 1839 it was purchased by Cretan refugees and they turned it into their village’s church. The edges and the arches of its bell-tower are influenced by the gothic patterns, whereas the lintels and the pilasters are decorated with traditional sculptures and religious patterns. In the yard, at the church’s entrance, you will see two mosaics, creations of the local artist Giagos Kavroudakis. These two colorful mosaics are dated from 1937; one of them depicts a dragon in the shape of Milos, whereas the other depicts the battle of the good against the evil. Ever since 2000 the Church...
The Mineral Museum of Milos, an urban non-profitable company, was made by S&B Industrial Minerals S.A. in 1998 with the aim to honor and promote the mineral history as well as the geologic and natural heritage of Milos. Τηλ. Επικοιν.: 22870 At the ground-floor room the social, financial and technologic dimension of Milos’s mineral history and tradition is presented. The exhibition on the ground floor is dedicated to the island’s natural and geologic wealth, where the minerals that used to be mined on the island since the Neolithic age are presented all the way to the present day; special emphasis is given on their usage in our everyday life. Complementary, films are projected dealing with the mining and the procedure of the minerals’ production, whereas in the projection room visitors can “travel” back to older periods through the descriptions of the old miners. The Museum realizes organized geologic walks, whereas in its premises educational programs take place and pedagogic and recreational activities are organized in cooperation with skilled educational carriers and museum-educators. In its 12 years of operation, the Museum has been visited by more than 135,000 people from Greece and abroad, whereas it has become a favorite destination of...
The Folklore & History Museum of Milos is located behind the church of Panaghia Korfiatissa in Plaka. The museum was established in 1967 by the “Union of the Melians in Athens” and there you can learn a lot of things about the life of the Melians after the 17th century (mostly from 1850 up to 1930, which was a peak period for the Melian society). A visiting to this museum takes back into another time period, as you will see how a city Melian household of the 19th century was like. The museum is not an exact representation of a certain type of a Melian household, but starting from the heterogeneous objects, the aspects of life of the inhabitants in that time period are presented: their dealings inside and outside the house, their influences from other regions, their nutritional and dress preferences, their ways of entertainment, the organizing of space and time and the exploitation of the local resources. This two-storeyed museum is made of a living-room and the unique exhibits located in it, the work place where the loom is found, the house’s kitchen room, the bedroom, the cellar (used also for the storage of rural products), and the...
The catacombs are situated near Trypiti village, in caves of 150meters above the surface of the sea. In 2009, the Holy Synod proclaimed Milos a sacred island, because the Catacombs constitute the most ancient monument of Christianity. It was the first gathering place of the first Christians and they were used as a municipal cemetery for the first time in the end of the 2ndcentury BC. The Catacombs of Milos are of a unique size in the entire of Greece and one of the most famous and remarkable Christian world monuments next to the catacombs of Rome and of the Holy Land. This labyrinthine complex is composed of three big-initially separate-subterranean colonnades (A,B,C) carved in the porous volcanic stone, five corridors and one rectangular burial chamber in the form of cubicula in the Roman Catacombs. Each Catacomb is of a different width (1-5meters) and a different height (1,60-2,50meters). Its total length is 185metres and today 126 “arkosolia” (carved arched tombs) are preserved in the inner sides of the colonnades. The “arkosolia” were decorated with colors (red fascia on the crown and dark blue color on the spandrel’s surface), but today only scare traces of their colorful decor are preserved. The...
The National Airport is approximately 9 km from the center of Adamas town. Established on 17 January 1973. In 1995 completed the new terminal building and took new runway paving and construction of the aircraft floor. Terrestrial passenger service of the State Milos Airport undertaken by Olympic Air.
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In 2002 the municipality transferred the responsibilities of the Intermunicipal Port Office Pref. Cyclades concerning the Municipality Milos and established NPDD named "Municipal Port Milos Office", which operates in accordance with the provisions of PD / Tosh 410/95 (a, 231), performs the functions according to the provisions of par. 1 and 2 of Article 28 of Law. 2738/99, as amended. (September 10, 2002, Government Gazette 217 / 18.9.02) With this competence transfer movement, the Municipal Port Milos Office is requested to provide public services and contribute to the commercial, passenger, shipping, tourism and fishing traffic and in general to the proper functioning of the island's ports. (Adamas, Canava Pollonia). The Board of Milos Municipal Port Authority consists of 6 members who are councilors and citizens or residents with similar professional and social activity or special knowledge relevant for the legal person. The two elected Council members are appointed by the minority of City Council and member of the Board is necessarily the Harbour Master.
Milos Municipality came from the combination 5 Communities and now includes the entire area of the island. The four of them, Plaka - Beyond Triovasalos - Triovasalos and Tripiti voluntarily joined in 1986 while the fifth, Adamas 1998. The Municipal Council comprises seventeen members ten of which are elected by the majority and seven minority of combinations. Each of the five Local Apartments, corresponding to the former communities, represented by a five-member board.
