PANORMITIS Monastery & Beach
NOTE: If you are in Symi on a ferry day trip and want to visit Panormitis, take a taxi or a bus soon after you get off the boat. Stay in Panormitis not longer than an hour, and return to Symi Village (NOT the Port). Visit the village and what it has to offer (Museum, Castle, coffe, lunch), and then walk to the village by climbing down the steps of Kali Strata).
No trip to Symi would be complete without a visit to its monastery of Panormitis... .
Situated on the seafront of the tiny village of Panormitis, on the southern side of the island of Symi, it is protected by a narrow inlet that opens out into a wide harbour and small, empty beach.
The monastery is set against a stunning backdrop of pine-covered mountain-sides which only seem to add to the feeling of remoteness and solitude.
There is a restaurant and a cafe.
Ask the way to the baker's shop. It It is a beautiful, small, old bakery. The old baker opens shop whenever he is in the mood to do so and makes lovely rusks, bread and cheese-pies.
Panormitis is 21 km by road from Symi village. One can go there by bus, taxi, car, moped or boat-taxi. It is also a great long walk for the ones who have the time and and are fit enough to do it.