South Aegean

By Travelog Editorial Team ยท Updated August 8, 2026

The South Aegean is the Greek region covering the Cyclades and Dodecanese island groups, and today Santorini and Mykonos are the two islands Travelog covers: Santorini's guide plus a standalone Akrotiri excavation page, and Mykonos's guide plus a standalone Delos page, the small uninhabited island beside it that actually carries the UNESCO listing.

Santorini and Mykonos are the South Aegean's two most internationally recognized islands, and neither carries a UNESCO listing on its own, a genuine, honestly-disclosed gap from most of this guide's other cities. What each island does have is genuine: Santorini's Akrotiri excavation and Mykonos's neighboring island of Delos, both covered here with their own standalone pages.

  • Santorini No UNESCO listing, but the genuine Akrotiri excavation, a Bronze Age city buried by the eruption that carved the island's caldera, now its own standalone page.
  • Mykonos No UNESCO listing of its own, but the working gateway to Delos, now its own standalone landmark page.