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Don't miss it..
At 15 of August is the big celebration
of Madonna
Portaitisa
"Poungia" (cheese pie made from kopanisti cheese and honey)
Preserved fruits (quince, fig, bitter orange, bergamot orange),
turnovers
"Rantista" (lentils cooked with finely grained dough and vinegar)
Stuffed vine, cabbage leaves or courgette flowers
Various local cheeses such as "ladotyri", "myzithra", "chlori"
A type of yoghurt called "xyalina"
Lobster with spaghetti, octopus balls, fish, goat stuffed with rice
Liver finely chopped and cooked with spices known as 'lambrianos"
Yellow bread rolls "kitrinokouloura" with 'chlori' cheese and
saffron and pies known as 'lambropittes"
and least but not last the out of this world, "the honey of
Astypalea" smelling thyme and taste amazing.
Honey smelling thyme |
"Chlori" at a traditional cheese dairy |
Fresh lobster |
Sights-
Museums
Eight maintain mills
Archaeological Museum of Astypalea
The
white
traditional houses
The venetian castle
Churches -
Monasteries
Temple of Madonna of the
castle
Temple of Saint George
Temple of Madonna Portaitisa
Monastery of
Madonna Vlefariotisa
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Weather
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Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
May |
Jun |
Jul |
Aug |
Sep |
Oct |
Nov |
Dec |
|
air (°C) |
11.9 |
11.8 |
13.2 |
16.0 |
19.5 |
22.9 |
25.2 |
25.8 |
23.6 |
20.7 |
17.1 |
13.8 |
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sea (°C) |
14.9 |
14.4 |
14.5 |
16.5 |
18.8 |
21.2 |
23.0 |
23.7 |
22.6 |
19.9 |
17.8 |
15.7 |
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humidity (%) |
74.2 |
67.6 |
67.0 |
65.2 |
61.3 |
59.1 |
58.0 |
62.8 |
68.9 |
70.0 |
72.9 |
71.0 |
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rain (mm) |
100.3 |
53.9 |
39.4 |
19.5 |
16.5 |
2.0 |
0.0 |
0.4 |
3.3 |
25.0 |
46.7 |
81.6 |
Find out what the weather is like in the Aegean Sea and
Astypalea in particular at
www.poseidon.ncmr.gr
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