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town of Tinos is a lively and colourful port. Its streets are lined with
shops, tavernas and cafes to sit and watch the continuous flow of fishing
and sail boats coming in and out of the harbor. There are daily and frequent
ferryboats connecting Tinos to the Greek mainland and other islands.
There are many museums and art galleries on the island. Several of them
belong to the Sacred Foundation of our Lady, such as the Icon and Heirloom
Gallery, the Vestry, the Art Gallery, the Tinian Artists Museum, the Antonios
Sohos Museum and the Yiannoulis Halepas Museum. There is also the Archaeological
Museum of Tinos (with exhibits from the Poseidon Temple in Kionia and
the rest of the island’s archaeological sites), the Jesuit Folk
Museum at Loutra, the Tinian Artists museums at Pyrgos and Ysternia, the
museum housed in Halepa’s home at Pyrgos, the Ecclesiastical Art
Museum at the historical monastery of Kechrovounio and the library and
museum of the Catholic Archidiocese in Xinara.
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