The island of Santorini has been a legend for centuries. The reason for its fame is the notorious volcano that lays on its soil. Once active, it caused the second larger eruption in the known history of humanity. It literally changed the course of things and had as a result the complete extinction of a booming civilization, the Minoans. And even though it has been at rest for many decades, the residents are quite uncomfortable with its intense eruptions for centuries or even millennia.
Still, it is the same volcano that has led to the unique morphology of the island and has curved its identity. The volcano itself has been self-destroyed and reborn dozens of times over the last 400000 years. Nevertheless, around 2000 BC, it had its biggest explosion, which led to the formation of the caldera and the current landscape.
santorini villasTwo are the main theories that attempt to research the origins of the explosion that happened. The first places it around 2000 BC and the second one around 1500 BC. According to the second one, a gigantic tsunami was raised and led to the destruction of the Minoan Civilization. Since the great explosion of 1650 BC and until the last one in 1950 AD, 8 more explosions have taken place, some of which led to the creation of two small islands, the Old and the New Kameni, in the middle of the caldera. Those were created from lava deposits which initially created underwater cones around the crater which later emerged.
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