Ios
Ios is a small island of the Cyclades group. It is a part of the Cyclades Islands in the south of Greece. Ios is a short ferry ride from Santorini, making an extended holiday or even a day trip a viable option.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 2,020 residents
- Description: Greek island
- Also known as: “Aina”, “Anza”, “Arsinoe”, “Io”, “Little Malta”, “Nio”, “Nios”, “Phiniki”, and “Phoeniki”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Archaeological museum of Ios and Odysseas Elytis Theatre.
Odysseas Elytis Theatre
Theater building
Photo: Lourakis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Odysseas Elytis Theater in Ios, Greece is an open-air theater of the ancient Greek style designed by the architect Peter Haupt, a professor of architecture at the University of Berlin.
Saint Irene
Church
The Church of St. Irene is a Greek Orthodox church on the island of Ios, Greece. It is located in the south side of the port of Ios in Yialos and it was built in the 17th century.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chora and Mylopotas.
Chora
Town
Photo: Joshua Doubek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chora or Hora, officially Ios, is the capital town of Ios Island in Greece and is the largest settlement on the island. It contains many of the island's facilities of tourism such as hotels and apartments.
Mylopotas
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mylopotas is a small settlement located on the Greek island of Ios. Although the population of Mylopotas is just 151 people, during the summer season many tourists visit Mylopotas to enjoy the beach and stay in one of the resorts nearby.
Ios
- Categories: island and polis
- Location: Ios, Cyclades, South Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Ios from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Ios” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Ios”
- Arabic: “إوس، كيكلاديس”
- Arabic: “إيوس”
- Armenian: “Իոս (կղզի)”
- Armenian: “Իոս”
- Basque: “Ios”
- Belarusian: “Іас”
- Belarusian: “Іё”
- Belarusian: “Іёс”
- Belarusian: “Малая Мальта”
- Belarusian: “Ніёс”
- Belarusian: “Фінікі”
- Bulgarian: “Иос”
- Catalan: “Ios”
- Cebuano: “Nísos Íos”
- Chinese: “伊奥斯岛”
- Chinese: “伊奧斯島”
- Crimean Tatar: “İos”
- Czech: “Ios”
- Danish: “Ios”
- Dutch: “Ios”
- Dutch: “Íos”
- Finnish: “Íos”
- French: “Ios”
- French: “Íos”
- Galician: “Ios”
- Galician: “Ίος”
- Georgian: “იოსი”
- German: “Ios”
- Greek: “Ίος”
- Greek: “Νιός”
- Greek: “Φοινίκη”
- Hausa: “Ios”
- Hebrew: “איוס”
- Hebrew: “יוס”
- Hungarian: “Íosz”
- Indonesian: “Ios”
- Irish: “Ios”
- Italian: “Io (isola)”
- Italian: “Io”
- Italian: “Ios”
- Japanese: “イオス島”
- Korean: “이오스섬”
- Latin: “Ios”
- Latvian: “Ija (sala)”
- Latvian: “Ija”
- Macedonian: “Иос”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ios”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Íos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ios”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Íos”
- Norwegian: “Ios”
- Ossetian: “Иос”
- Papiamento: “Ios”
- Polish: “Ios”
- Portuguese: “Ios”
- Romanian: “Ios”
- Russian: “Иос”
- Serbian: “Ios”
- Serbian: “Иос”
- Serbian: “Јос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ios”
- Slovenian: “Ios”
- Spanish: “Ios”
- Spanish: “Íos”
- Swedish: “Ios”
- Thai: “เกาะอีออส”
- Turkish: “İnyoz”
- Turkish: “Niyoz”
- Ukrainian: “Іос”
- Urdu: “ایوس”
- Vietnamese: “Ios”
- Western Armenian: “Իոս”
- Yue Chinese: “伊奧斯島”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Ios”. Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 3.0.