{"id":5622,"date":"2023-04-07T06:53:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T03:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mazitravel.com.49-12-171-86.oramacms6.gr\/mi-katigoriopoiimeno\/alonissos-underwater-museum\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T06:53:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T03:53:52","slug":"alonissos-underwater-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mice.mazitravel.com\/en\/travel-blog-en\/travel-inspiration-en\/alonissos-underwater-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonissos Underwater Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 425 BC a trireme started from the city of Mendi in Halkidiki bound for a&nbsp;city in today&#8217;s southern Greece loaded with thousands of amphorae of wine and&nbsp;food. A strong storm hit the ship and a crack opened in its sides causing it to fill&nbsp;with sea water and sink somewhere off the coast of Alonissos.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mazitravel.com\/images\/folder\/articles\/Insiders_Guide_UK\/Greece\/Alonissos\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"4\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;The countless scattered ancient amphorae, one on top of the other, in various&nbsp;parts of the seabed, were accidentally discovered in 1985 by a fisherman, Dimitris&nbsp;Mavrikis, off the island of Peristeras, near Alonissos.&nbsp;This is how we reached today and the creation of the Underwater Museum of&nbsp;Alonissos. So, if you want to get a taste of underwater archaeology, all you have to&nbsp;do is dive off the coast of Alonissos and take a tour accompanied by experienced&nbsp;divers above this unique find. It is an exciting experience to dive into the sea to&nbsp;see Greek antiquities up close. Your experience is completed by the Public&nbsp;Information and Awareness Center of the Underwater Museum in Alonissos,&nbsp;where you will receive all the necessary information about the ancient shipwrecks,&nbsp;while the possibility of a virtual tour with augmented reality technologies is&nbsp;offered.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mazitravel.com\/images\/folder\/articles\/Insiders_Guide_UK\/Greece\/Alonissos\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"5\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mazitravel.com\/images\/folder\/articles\/Insiders_Guide_UK\/Greece\/Alonissos\/6.jpeg\" alt=\"6\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mazitravel.com\/images\/folder\/articles\/Insiders_Guide_UK\/Greece\/Alonissos\/diving-714852_1920.jpeg\" alt=\"diving 714852 1920\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countless scattered amphorae from a shipwreck that occurred in 425 BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[403],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-inspiration-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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