Qualla: Kythnos https://qualla.com/kythnos en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:40:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Kythnos https://qualla.com/kythnos Kythnos: Introduction https://qualla.com/kythnos/ The Turks called it Hamam Antassi: island of warm waters. That name has never quite stuck, but it captures something real about Kythnos that the island's more formal identities — Thermia in the Middle Ages, Kythnos today — only partially convey. There are hot springs here, on the northeastern coast at Loutra, whose curative properties have been drawing visitors since at least Roman times. The village even takes its name from them: Loutra means baths. Visitors today can still soak in marble tubs at the functioning bathhouse for a modest fee, as people have been doing, in one form or another, for roughly two thousand years.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/k/kythnos-wp/sw9k-kythnos-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kythnos: Twelve Thousand Years of Habitation https://qualla.com/kythnos/ Long before the hot springs acquired a reputation, people were living on Kythnos. At Maroulas on the northeastern coast, close to Loutra, archaeologists have identified a Mesolithic settlement dating from approximately 10000 to 8000 BCE — one of the oldest known habitations in th...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/k/kythnos-wp/sw9k-kythnos-twelve-thousand-years-of-habitation.mp3 0:06 2 full Kythnos: Conquerors, Coats of Arms, and a Woman at the Gate https://qualla.com/kythnos/ Medieval Kythnos changed hands repeatedly. In 1207, the Frankish lord Marco Sanudo incorporated it into his Duchy of the Archipelago. The Venetian Gozzadini family held it for generations thereafter. The Ottomans finally ended that era in 1617, taking the island's hilltop fortres...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/k/kythnos-wp/sw9k-kythnos-conquerors-coats-of-arms-and-a-woman-at-the-gate.mp3 0:06 3 full Kythnos: An Island That Keeps Count of Its Churches https://qualla.com/kythnos/ Kythnos has more churches and chapels than most places its size. The island counts well over a hundred of them, scattered across its 100 square kilometers of hillside, coastline, and valley. The two main villages express different characters: Chora, the island capital, has the fl...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/k/kythnos-wp/sw9k-kythnos-isolation-iron-and-the-wind.mp3 0:06 5 full Kythnos: Two Villages, Ninety Beaches, One Famous Cave https://qualla.com/kythnos/ Today the island sits comfortably between its past and a modest but genuine present. Chora (population around 560 at the 2011 census) and Dryopida (around 325) maintain their winding, stepped streets — too narrow for vehicles, designed for a pace of life measured in footsteps. Mo...

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