Today it is just a small inland village, with children
playing in the cobbled streets and a few hotels and rooms to
let for those who are looking for cheaper accommodation
within easy distance of Fira.
A village only two kilometers east of Fira, with an
interesting architecture and three lovely churches worth
visiting.
Analipsis, in the center of the village, has the Italian
ecclesiastical architecture style but as it transformed in
the Cyclades islands and it resembles to the Cathedral of
Fira. The other two, Eisodia tis Theotokou and Aghios
Nikolaos are typically Santorinian. Karterados has a quiet
black-sand beach that is the closest from Fira
The older part of Karterados village is all but invisible
from the main street. The rock houses have been dug out of
the bed of a torrent, and their roofs are on a level with
the pavement. By the 19th century it had become a place of
wealthy ship-owners., and according to one story took its
name from the fact that they watched and waited for the
return of the sailors who sailed to Russia, Malta and Egypt.
Once past the village the road leads to the quiet pebble
beach of Exo Gialos, and from there to Monolithos.
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