The island offers the same kind of white-washed charm that makes Santorini famous but is cheaper and less crowded.

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For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its founding more ...