Serifos Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
Greek island
About Serifos
Serifos is a small island (65 km, pop. about 1,200) where tourism is just beginning to really develop. Its main attractions are some excellent beaches, and an unspoiled whitewashed cubistic traditional CycladicChora(main town). By far the most notable episode in the island's past is not from history but from mythology: here was where the hero Perseus was said to have used Medusa's head (one of the three Gorgons) to turn King Polydeuctes to stone, thus saving his mother Danae from the king's violent advances. Copper and other minerals have been mined here since Minoan times and only stopped being exported in the 1960s; in some places on the island you can still see the straight roads with railway-like iron tracks which were used for animal-hauled ore carts. Serifos was a significant ci
Where to Stay in Serifos
- 🏨Anna Rooms
- 🏨Indigo Studios
- 🏨Medusa Accommodation
Serifos Travel Guide Sections
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