The cave houses
Traditional dwellings hollowed out of the ravine walls, some restored as guesthouses.
Ravine village
KTEL lists Vothonas on the fare rows "Fira – Vothonas – Pyrgos" (€2.20) and "Athinios port – Pyrgos – Vothonas" (€2.20), and on the PDF fare panel. No timetable column names Vothonas and OpenStreetMap has no named KTEL stop node for it, so this page carries no coordinates and no departure list of its own.
By bus
KTEL lists Vothonas on the fare rows "Fira – Vothonas – Pyrgos" (€2.20) and "Athinios port – Pyrgos – Vothonas" (€2.20), and on the PDF fare panel. No timetable column names Vothonas and OpenStreetMap has no named KTEL stop node for it, so this page carries no coordinates and no departure list of its own.
Source: KTEL Thiras / Santorini Public Buses: Official fare table (last update 19/05/2026) () · KTEL Thiras / Santorini Public Buses: Printable timetable PDF (last update 15/09/2026) ()
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Worth your time
Vothonas is a small village built into a ravine south of Messaria, known for houses carved into the soft volcanic rock and for a church set into the cliff. KTEL publishes it together with Pyrgos on two fare rows, from Fira and from Athinios port.
Traditional dwellings hollowed out of the ravine walls, some restored as guesthouses.
A church built into the rock face, the village’s landmark.
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Black-sand resort Kamari A long black-sand beach with a proper seafront promenade, an open-air cinema, and ancient Thera on the mountain above. Plan the ride From the current KTEL timetable. KTEL publishes no stop list, so the evidence behind each route is stated. Timetable PDF last updated .
No published departure column names Vothonas. KTEL sells a ticket here (see the fares below), so ask at the Fira bus station which departure serves it on the day.
Published fares naming Vothonas: Fira – Vothonas – Pyrgos €2.20. All fares.
Through fares KTEL publishes from Vothonas: Athinios Port and Pyrgos €2.20.
No named stop node exists in OpenStreetMap for Vothonas, so no coordinates are shown rather than guessed.