Top Pet-Friendly Attractions on Santorini, Oia, Pyrgos, Akrotiri & Ancient Thera

The whitewashed cliff-top village at the northern tip of Santorini, 11 km from Fira, with the iconic blue-domed Anastasi and Agios Spyridon churches and the ruined Byzantine castle (Kasteli Agiou Nikolaou) as the most photographed sunset point in Greece. Pedestrian-only marble lanes, leashed dogs on the open paths and at most café terraces off-peak.

Bronze Age Minoan town buried by the catastrophic 1620 BC Thera eruption, preserved nearly intact under volcanic ash for 3,600 years, now sheltered under a 14,000 m² protective bioclimatic roof. Multi-storey houses, frescoes, drainage and pottery in situ. The 'Cycladic Pompeii', one of the most important Aegean Bronze Age sites.

Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine ruined city on the rocky Mesa Vouno spur 369 m above Kamari beach, founded by Spartans in the 9th century BC. Open-air archaeological site with the agora, theatre, basilica and temples, reached by a 4 km zigzag dirt road or a steep footpath from Kamari. Full panorama over the south-east coast.