Santorini's flooded volcanic caldera was created by a huge Bronze Age eruption. Here, a stairway snakes down russet layers of ash to link the cliff-top town of Oia with its port.
—From "Santorini: Greece's Sensuous Daughter of Cataclysm," September/October 1997, National Geographic Traveler
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Get a taste of the Mediterranean with these images taken on assignment for the National Geographic magazine article "Santorini: Greece's Sensuous Daughter of Cataclysm."
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