 Violin and bouzouki lend atmosphere to a Mayday picnic, at Agios Pavros Point |
 OK, so the seas near the shore aren’t really blue – more a green-tinged shade of aquamarine. But further out to sea, the water is the deepest ultramarine blue you could ever hope to come across. This is Amorgos Island, main backdrop for the dreamy “cult” movie Big Blue, the main sections of which were filmed here in 1988. When film-maker Luc Besson first caught sight of the Hozoviotissa Monastery on Amorgos, he knew that this island was where he wanted to make his movie. Hozoviotissa is an awesome sight – an eight-storied whitewashed temple perched precariously on the slopes of Mount Prophet Elijah. And this is far from being all that Amorgos has to offer.
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