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Amorgós
The Big Blue
Easternmost of the Cyclades, a long ferry slog from Piraeus, Amorgós is also one of the most dramatically rugged islands, with a vertical south coast plunging into the sea. For centuries it was virtually two islands, with the main port of Katápola almost a stranger to Aegiáli in the northeast, until a road united them in 1995.
An island of political exile in the 1930s and 60s, Amorgós became a destination for the adventurous, then whoosh! – the first scenes in Luc Besson’s 1988 cult film The Big Blue were shot here, and travellers began to make the journey, seeking the Cycladic idyll of their dreams.
The film has led to a couple of festivals on the island. Since 2009, the island holds the Amorgos Film Festival in November; and since 2017, it’s hosted the mid-September Authentic Big Blue Freediving Championships.
Images by ER Bauer, Konstatinos Yiannakos, MA, Oliwan, Phso2, Roland Godefroy, Stathis24 / Stathis24 at Greek Wikipedia, User:internationalgreg, Yoshii, Zde, Zde, Creative Commons License, Στέφανος Δ. Γαβαλάς, Creative Commons License