ÉGLISES DES DÔMES BLEUS
Two of Santorini's most iconic 19th-century white churches with blue domes. Beautifully set against sea and sky.
You're bound to be familiar with these two superb white churches with blue domes (Μπλέ Τρούλοι/Ble Trouli, Blue Domed Churches): they feature on the packaging of plenty of "Greek-style" products sold by supermarkets all over Europe... A controversy even erupted in France, in 2017, when three of their crosses were erased from a photograph printed on a yoghurt packaging. Built in the 19th century, these two nearby churches are Santorini's most iconic... indeed, of all Greece! Not only are they beautiful, but above all, they are ideally placed above the caldera, forming a magnificent whole with their white walls, each with a blue dome, a bell tower whose top is also painted blue, and the blue of the sky and sea in the background. The one with the blue bell tower is the church of Agios Spyridon (1867). And slightly higher, some 150 m above the waves, stands the church of Anastaseos tou Kyriou (1865). Dedicated to the Resurrection of the Lord, it boasts a small, pale pink bell tower-wall. The best place to see and photograph them together is at the top of the stairs, near the Bubble Suite hotel. But it's often very crowded here at sunset in summer. You can also try another viewpoint a little further east, next to the church of Agios Ioannis o Prodromos, nicknamed the "Church of the Three Domes", with its three adjoining vaulted naves, two of which are topped by bell-walls.
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