According to the Thira Municipal Port Authority, five of the ten cruise ships scheduled to dock in March—large vessels carrying thousands of passengers each—have rerouted to other destinations due to uncertainty over docking permissions.
In celebration of International Women’s Day, the Greek Ministry of Culture has shone a spotlight on a remarkable artifact from ancient Greece, the Maiden of Thera, currently featured in the exhibition “Cycladic Women: Unknown Stories of Women from the Cyclades” at the Museum of Cycladic Art, which runs until May 4, 2025.
Speaking to public broadcaster ERT on Saturday morning, the professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Southern California, and a member of the Academy of Athens underlined that “although the tremors stopped within an hour and a half, it was clear that these were purely volcanic earthquakes.”
Additional precautions have been taken for exhibits housed in glass cases, as well as for large vessels and sculptures, which have been securely stabilized. Meanwhile, the antiquities at the Akrotiri archaeological site—renowned for their exceptional state of preservation—have been safeguarded and arranged in accordance with security requirements.
In a special report focusing primarily on the political developments in the U.S. and their ramifications for Greece, the systemic bank made special reference to how much Greece’s tourism sector might suffer from the Santorini earthquakes.
The report, conducted by the MTC Group and based on Hellenic Statistical Authority data, indicates that Santorini outperformed all other Cycladic islands, despite experiencing a 9% decline in comparison to the same period last year.
