Tinos / Cyclades: overview (click to enlarge)

◊ Triantaros
◊ Arnados
◊ Falatados
◊ Steni
◊ Tripotamos
◊ Karia
◊ Xinara
◊ Koumaros
◊ Loutra
◊ Monastiria
◊ Volakas (Volax)
◊ Tarambados
◊ Kardiani
◊ Isternia
◊ Komi
◊ Pyrgos
◊ Panormos

Volakas

The village of Volax is located 10km north of Chora and approximately 4km north of Exombourgo in the heartland of Tinos. It is situated in the midst of a dramatic lunar landscape studded with rounded stones, rocks and boulders of all sizes and scattered about in solitary or grouped configurations looking for all the world as if they have fallen out of the sky. The uniqueness of the landscape lies, in point of fact, in these large expanses strewn with these ‘unearthly’ granite formations: this being the largest such ‘lunar landscape’ in Europe, and which, encompassing as it does the very village itself, is listed as a protected area of natural beauty. The village, which consists of small, highly picturesque stone houses and narrow lanes, is well-known for its basket-weavers who have a very long tradition in practising their occupation in Volax. This is a truly unique locality that additionally lends itself to hiking and touring.