1995, 1997, 1999, 2000,
2001 , 2002, 2003 (2X),
2004, 2006, 2007, 2009,
2010, 2011, 2012, 2013,
2014 (3X), 2015, 2017,
2018, 2019, 2021 (2X),
2022 (2X) and 2023.
Walking, hiking and trekking on SIFNOS
BOATS SIFNOS
-Adamantios
Koraïs
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Artemis
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Seajet 2
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Speedrunner III
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Super Jet
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Flying Cat/Highspeed
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all boats Milos Travel
MAPS
WALKS
(last update on the 22nd of January 2024)
*** = very beautiful
**** = exceptional
+ Gpx = with Gpx-file
1. Apollonia - Agia
Marína - Panagía Tóso
Neró - Agios
Eleftherios - Apollonia **** + Gpx
2. Apollonía - Agia Marína - Agios Konstantínos - Panagía Tóso Neró and back **** + Gpx
3. Apollonía - Agii Anárgyri - Agios Andréas - Symbópoula - Apollonía *** + Gpx
4. Apollonia - Agios Andreas - Chryssopigí - Fáros
5. Apollonía - Agios Andréas - Moní Vrýsis - Apollonía
6. Apollonía - Agios Elefthérios - Panagía Tóso Neró - Vlási and back **** + Gpx
7. Apollonía - Agios Lázaros - Artemónas
8. Apollonía - Agios Simeoón - Artemónas ***
9. Apollonía - Apokoftó - Chryssopigí - Fáros *** + Gpx
10. Apollonía - Artemónas - Agios Simeoón - Kamáres ***
11. Apollonía - Artemónas - Tris Pigés - Agios Simeoón and back **** + Gpx
12. Apollonia - Artemónas - Kástro - Fáros - Chryssopigí - (Platýs Gialós) **** + Gpx
13. Apollonia - Artemónas - Kástro - valley of Erkíes - Káto Petáli - Apollonía **** + Gpx
14. Apollonia -
Artemónas - Panagía ta Mángana -
Agia Anna - Panagía Pouláti - Kástro
- Káto Petáli - Apollonía *** + Gpx
15.
Apollonía - Exámbela - Panagía Vrýsis - Kástro *** + Gpx
16. Apollonía - Káto Petáli - Agios Panteleímonas - Kástro and back *** + Gpx
17. Apollonía - Káto Petáli - Kástro - Artemónas
18. Apollonía - Kato Petali - valley of Erkíes - Kástro - Panagía Pouláti - Artemónas **** + Gpx
19. Apollonía - Káto Petáli - valley of Erkíes - Moní Vrýsis - Platýs Gialós **** + Gpx
21. Apollonía - Panagía Platánou - Artemónas - Apollonía *** + Gpx
22. Apollonía - Profítis Ilías and back *** + Gpx
23. Apollonía - Tris Pigés - Agios Simeoón - Tris Pigés - Artemónas *** + Gpx
24. Apollonía - Vathý via Agios Nikólaos T' Aeriná **** + Gpx
25. Apollonia - Vathý via the Kalamítsi-well **** + Gpx
26. Artemónas - Agia Anna - Panagía ta Mángana - Agios Sóstis and back **** + Gpx
29. Artemónas - Tris Pigés - Agios Sóstis - Panagía ta Mángana - Artemónas ***
30. Cherrónissos - Ambourdéktis - Kambanário + Gpx
31. Fáros - Chryssopigí - Panagía tou Vounoú - Platýs Gialós
32. Fáros - Kástro and back *** + Gpx
33. Fáros - Plakotó - Agios Charálambos - Apokoftó - Chryssopigí - Fáros *** + Gpx
34. Kamáres - Agios Elefthérios - Apollonía **** + Gpx
35. Kamáres - Agios Lázaros - Agios Simeoón and back
36. Kamáres - Agios Lázaros - Artemónas
37. Kamáres - cape Kokkálas and back
38. Kamáres
- Panagía Platánou - Apollonía
+ Gpx
39. Kamáres - Panagia Tóso Neró - Vlási and back *** + Gpx
43. Kástro - valley of Erkíes - Plakotó - Agios Charalámbos - Apokoftó - Chryssopigí ***
44. Platýs Gialós - Fykiáda and back **** + Gpx
45. Platýs Gialós - Fykiáda - Profítis Ilías Kontoú - Platýs Gialós ***
46. Platýs Gialós - Moní Vrýsis - Káto Petáli - Apollonía *** + Gpx
47. Platýs Gialós - Moní Vrýsis - Kástro *** + Gpx
48. Platýs Gialós - Mousiá - Fykiáda - Kontós - Vathý **** + Gpx
49. Vathý - Agia Anna - Agios Nikólaos T' Aëriná - Vathý *** + Gpx
50. Vathý - Agios Nikólaos T' Aërina - Panagía tou Kargiávli - Agia Anna - Vathý ***
Sífnos
is the third island on the boat line from the Piraeus, via Kýthnos and
Milos, to Santoríni. The boat stops in the harbour of Kamáres, about five
hours after the departure from Athens.
It is the Adamántios Koraïs which
takes care for this line, three times a week.
In Summer there are also rapid
connections with the Piraeus, Sérifos of Mílos by High Speed.
Three times a week, the Artemis
takes care of an interesting connection
with Mílos,
Sérifos, Páros and Sýros
The surface area of Sífnos is 73
km2 and there are some 2000 inhabitants.
Sífnos is almost the ideal island: the harbour of Kamáres is very attractive and there is a really nice beach. The villages throughout the island are very idyllic and built in a typical Cycladic style, and there are quite a few very pleasant beaches. Most importantly, though, the island offers an inexhaustible variety of beautiful hiking trails.
Kamáres
is a great spot to stay: there are a couple of nice hotels and a lot of
rooms to let with the inhabitants. You can find many decent restaurants in
Kamáres and the beach and the shallow sea are ideal for children. There
are bus lines from Kamáres to Apollonía, the capital of the island, and
from there you can continue by bus to other villages: Kástro, Fáros, Platýs
Gialós and Vathý. Apollonía is a very picturesque Cycladic town,
and in the neighbouring village of Artemónas there are many
beautiful, majestic houses. The main street that runs from Artemónas to
Apollonía
and further on to Katavatí makes for an ideal walk, with a couple of
beautiful little churches.
Kástro,
the old capital, is located at three km from Apollonia. It is an
impressive fortified town, which is beautifully situated and which
contains many picturesque and peaceful streets. It is also a good idea to
visit the harbour of Fáros and the magnificent monastery of Chryssopigí,
in between Fáros and Platýs Gialós.
The most beautiful
beaches are to be found on Platýs Gialós (unfortunately there is no much
shade,
though) and on Vathý. However, you can also have a nice swim on the
beaches of Kamáres, at the bottom of the monastery of Panagía Pouláti and
in the picturesque little harbour of Serália, underneath Kástro.
Sífnos is the ideal
hiking island - there
are actually so many hiking trails on Sifnos that you will always find
another interesting path once you get lost. The most beautiful hikes go
from Apollonía across the island to Vathý or Agios Andréas, but there are
also plenty of shorter hikes to Kastro, to Chryssopigí or to the monastery
of Agios Simeoón – you can then combine these trails with other
connections between Kástro and Artemónas, or from Fáros to Kástro...too
much to sum up!
There are a number
of nice hiking maps that are indispensable to complete the descriptions on
this site. In the series of Topo 25, published by Anávasi, a beautiful
map has appeared:
all the good hiking trails are indicated on this map.
In
2016 there was a new edition indicating the 10 most important
way-marked walks + 9 variants or side
branches.
In
spring 2009 a very good and very clear map came out in the series of
Terrain Maps.
In 2015, the municipality of Sífnos started a brand
new project for the way-marking of the most important trails:
Sifnos now has more than 100km of professionally designed and way-marked
trails, one of the largest trail networks of the Aegean.
The way-marking itself was done by the company "Paths
of Greece": on the most important spots (trailhead and some bifurcations),
you will see hiking poles and the whole itinerary is marked with red and
white stripes (=).
See the very interesting site
http://www.sifnostrails.com/
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The walks are: [1] Agios Loukás (Artemónas) - Pouláti - Kástro - Moní tis Vrýsis - Agios Andréas [2] Kástro - Fáros - Chryssopigí [3] Apollonía - Káto Petáli - Moní tis Vrýsis - Platýs Gialós [4] Platýs Gialós - Fykiáda - Profítis Ilías Kondoú - Platýs Gialós [5] Katavatí (Apollonía) - Vathý [6] Apollonía - Agios Elefthérios - (Kamáres ) - Panagía Tóso Neró - Katavatí [7] Artemónas (Apollonía) - Agios Simeoón [8] Agia Anna (Artemónas) - Agios Sóstis [9] Kambanário - Cherrónissos [10] Apollonía - Kamáres |
Interesting hiking
books are "Walking in the Aegean" by Dieter Graf and "Santorini,
Sifnos and western and southern Cyclades", published in 2006, in
which 12 hikes are devoted to Sífnos.
New is also the small and handy book "Sifnos. Promenades dans l' île
- Walking in the island", by Martine and Christian Lot. The 30 hikes
are very brief, but also very accurate and they are written with a lot of
devotion and enthusiasm - see
sifnos30sentiers.wordpress.com
You can discover some of the beauties of Sífnos by watching the short film of the young Amélien (only 14 years old), who lives near Lausanne - see https://www.skypixel.com/videos/125bbbfd-a9a3-4250-b59b-e553617ea8cb
In order to help you
a little when choosing from the
52 hikes, this is my personal top seven:
1. Apollonia - Vathý
via Agios Nikólaos T' Aeriná: the marvellous interior of Sífnos, climbing up the Profítis Ilías,
the monastery of Agios Nikólaos T' Aeriná and the beach of Vathý!
2. Vathý - Apollonía:
great beaches and the wonderful “fortress” of Agios Andréas. (****)
3. Apollonía - Kástro
via Kato Petáli and the valley of Erkíes - Artemónas: very nice trails,
the marvellous valley of Erkíes and of course the ancient town of Kástro;
having a swim in the sea at Panagía Pouláti is also very pleasant.
(****)
4. Platýs Gialós -
Profítis Ilías - Fykiáda - Platýs Gialós: an entirely different part
of Sífnos, very lonely, once more, and the idyllic little bay of Fykiáda.
(****)
5. Apollonía - Artemónas - Kástro - Fáros - Chryssopigí - Platýs Gialós: a hike that combines a couple of highlights, running along exceptional trails. (****)
6. Apollonía -
Agios Elefthérios - Panagía Tóso Neró: the hike on top of the hill
crest along Agios Elefthérios is wonderful, just like the view on
Kamáres.
The monastery of Tóso Neró and the small beach of Vlási are lonely
and unforgettable places once more. (****)
7. Apollonía - Artemónas - Agios Simeoón: beautiful trails and the incredible panoramic view from Agios Símeoón. (***)
On this island, it
is also very easy to make shorter hikes, since there are really a lot of
possibilities: because of the good bus connections you can begin or
conclude hikes in many different places - in Kamáres or Apollonía or
Artemónas, obviously, but also in Kástro or Fáros (although there are
only a few busses per day!) and definitely in Platýs Gialós or Vathý as
well.
A couple of shorter trajectories are, amongst others:
- Apollonía or Artemónas to Kástro via Panagía Pouláti (the beginning
of hike no.
12 Apollonía - Platýs Gialós)
- Kástro - Fáros (the continuation of this hike no.
12)
- Fáros - Chryssopigí - Platýs Gialós (the end of this hike no.
12)
- the shortest way to visit Agios Nikólaos T' Aeriná is hike no.
47 Vathý
- Agios Nikólaos T' Aëriná - Vathý
- there is only one way to visit the Panagía Tóso Neró – although a
magnificent spot! – via a shorter hike: in Kamáres you could try to
rent a small boat to go to the small beach of Vlási and from there you
can walk to and fro the monastery.
Since January the 1st 2004 you are visitor n°
The monastery of Chrysopigí
Kástro
The monastery of Panagía Pouláti
The monastery of Agios Simeoón
The bay of Kamáres from the Agios Simeoón
The fortified monastery of the Profítis Ilías
The nice terraces of Sífnos
The beautiful path to Agios Sóstis
The nice church of Panagía ta Mángana
A street in Kástro
The beautiful situation of the
Panagía Tóso Neró
The bay of Vathý
The bay of
Cherrónisos