Tinos

Periphery: South Aegean
Prefecture: Cyclades

Tinos Google Earth

Tinos (gr. ) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea, part of Greece. It is located in the Cyclades island complex. The closest islands are Andros and Mykonos.

Tinos harbour (Source)

Tinos is famous amongst Greeks for: the monastery of Panagia Evangelistria, its 20 windmills, the 1000 pigeon-houses, the 50 villages waiting to be explored, for the co-existence of Greek-Orthodox and Catholics, the Venetian fortifications, and for its famous sculptors and painters like Gyzis, Chalepas and Tsokles.

Panagia Evangelistria

Because of it is located near the geographical center of the Cyclades island complex, and because of the Panagia Evangelistria monastery with its reputedly miraculous icon of Virgin Mary that it holds, assumed to be a work of Luke the Evangelist. The monastery was build 1823 , the architect was Efstratiou from Smyrna. Tinos is the center of a yearly pilgrimage that takes place at the date of the ascension of Virgin Mary (15 August, known in Greek as "Dekapentavgoustos" = 15th of August). This is perhaps the most notable and still active yearly pilgrimage in the region of the eastern Mediterranean.

The Panagia Evangelistria Icon

Municipality of Tinos population 5203 in 2001

• Tinos / Δ.δ. Τήνου [ 4.615 ]
  
  • Tinos / η Τήνος [ 4.394 ]
    
  • Agios Fokas / ο Άγιος Φωκάς [ 164 ]
    
  • Karya / η Καρυά [ 13 ]
    
  • Mountados / ο Μουντάδος [ 44 ]
    
• Dyo Choria / Δ.δ. Δύο Χωρίων [ 249 ]
  
  • Dyo Choria / τα Δύο Χωρία [ 51 ]
    
  • Arnados / ο Αρνάδος [ 55 ]
    
  • Lychnaftia / τα Λυχνάφτια [ 3 ]
    
  • Moni Koimiseos Theotokou Kechrovouniou (Monastery) / η Μονή Κοιμήσεως Θεοτόκου Κεχροβουνίου [ 34 ]
    
  • Ormos Agiou Ioannou / ο Όρμος Αγίου Ιωάννου [ 103 ]
    
  • Fero Chorio / το Φερό Χωριό [ 3 ]
    
• Triantaros / Δ.δ. Τριαντάρου [ 339 ]
  
  • Triantaros / ο Τριαντάρος [ 54 ]
    
  • Agia Varvara / η Αγία Βαρβάρα [ 203 ]
    
  • Agios Sostis / ο Άγιος Σώστης [ 35 ]
    
  • Laouti / η Λαούτη [ 32 ]
    
  • Berdemiaros / ο Μπερδεμιάρος [ 15 ]
    

Places

• Tinos, the Capital of the island, Art Gallery (Pinakotheke) of Modern Greek Painters, Archaeological Museum , Monastery of Agia Triada
• Panormos (or Pyrgos).
• Isternia: In and around Isternia: Church of Agia Anna , Agia Triada (Holy Trinity) , Agios Athanasios (1453), Monastery of the Virgin Katapoliani (1786).
  
• Steni, Monastery Kechrovouniou

Persons

• Nikiforos Lytras (Νικηφόρος Λύτρας) (1832 Tinos – 14.6.1904) artist
  
• Nikolaos Gyzis (Νικόλαος Γύζης) (1.3.1842 Sklavohori Tinos – (4 or 17).1.1901 Munich) artist
  
• Dimitrios Philippotis (Δημήτριος Φιλιππότης)(1839 Tinos – 28.11.1919 Athens) , sculptor
  
• Giannoulis Halepas (or Chalepas) (Γιαννούλης Χαλεπάς) (1851 Pyrgos Tinos – 15 or 16 April 1938), sculptor , Giannoulis Chalepas Museum in Pyrgos

Greek Islands