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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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