Editing Symi (section)

==Culture==

===Landmarks===
* The Monastery of the [[Archangel Michael]] Panormitis<ref>[http://athos.edo.gr/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=351 Αρχάγγελος Μιχαήλ ο Πανορμίτης στη Σύμη] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928014614/http://athos.edo.gr/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=351 |date=2007-09-28 }}</ref> is a [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Greek Orthodox]] [[monastery]] built on the southwest coast in the early 18th century. It overlooks a bay, and is still inhabited by monks.
* The Kastro overlooks the main town of Symi, [[Ano Symi]]. It was built by the Knights of St. John as an expansion of a Byzantine castle on the same site, many parts of which are still visible. There are remnants of an ancient citadel, on which the two later castles were built.
* The municipal clock tower which was built circa 1880
* The War memorial in the harbour consists of a monument, "the Dove of Peace", in front of a bas-relief sculpture of a [[Trireme]]
* The town of Symi has thirteen major churches and dozens of chapels, some dating back to the [[Byzantine]] era.
* The village of Nimborio has surviving ancient [[Pelasgian]] walls and a set of twelve domes remaining from workshops used by artists.
* In late 2020 the renovated Historical Museum of Symi reopened.<ref>https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2020/09/23/opening-of-the-renovated-historical-museum-of-symi/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206164014/https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2020/09/23/opening-of-the-renovated-historical-museum-of-symi/ |date=2024-02-06 }} (retrieved 06/02/2024)</ref> The collections include many artefacts found by the early 20th-century Symian antiquarians Michael and Niketas Chaviaras, sons of Demosthenes Chaviaras (1849–1922), himself an important figure in local historical research. In the 1980s, the Chaviaras family archive was donated to the museum.<ref>N. Mastrochristos and A. Katsiotis, 'The cult of Saint Kerykos in the Dodecanese. The evidence of the Rhodian Peraia', in P. Pederson et al. (eds), ''Karia and the Dodecanese. Cultural interrelations in the southeastern Aegean''. V. II, Oxford, 2021, p. 17.</ref>

<gallery class="center" widths="200px" heights="200px">
File:Panormitis3.jpg|Panormitis Monastery
File:Simi 1.jpg|Panoramic view
File:House Symi Greece.jpg|Colourful house 
File:Stairs in Symi.jpg|Stairs of the upper town
File:Neoclassical houses in Symi.jpg|A square
File:Simi 7.jpg|A church
File:Simi, dziedziniec klasztoru Świętego Michała - 14 września 2008 r..JPG|Panormitis Monastery
</gallery>

===Festival===
Since 1995, Symi has hosted the Symi Festival during July to September.<ref>[http://www.symi.gr/en/main.php?id=festival Symi Festival] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928181508/http://www.symi.gr/en/main.php?id=festival |date=2007-09-28 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.symifestival.com/ |title=Symi Festival reports and reviews |access-date=2022-07-22 |archive-date=2013-07-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130722144839/http://symifestival.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> This festival was founded by Greek political journalist, Yannis Diakogiannis,<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 December 2006 |title=Décès du journaliste Yannis Diakogiannis |url=https://www.info-grece.com/content/deces-du-journaliste-yannis-diakogiannis |website=www.info-grece.com |language=fr |access-date=8 June 2024 |archive-date=8 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240608135619/https://www.info-grece.com/content/deces-du-journaliste-yannis-diakogiannis |url-status=live }}</ref> who established it in the birthplace of his father Eleftherios C. Diakogiannis. Since its inception, it has attracted many Greek musicians, [[Katy Garbi]], [[Eleftheria Arvanitaki]], [[Glykeria]], [[Alkistis Protopsalti]], [[Dimitra Galani]], Miltos Pasxahildis, etc., to perform at free open-air concerts in the main square of Yialos, and includes many dance and theatre events.

===Sister cities===
In 2008, [[Tarpon Springs, Florida]], a town with a high percentage of [[Greek American]]s, established a sister city-relationship with Symi. Located on the [[Gulf Coast of the United States]], Tarpon Springs attracted many Greek sponge fishermen to [[Florida]], for the "sponge rush" at the beginning of the twentieth century.<ref>{{cite news
  | title = Symians in Tarpon Springs are Symi's Extended Family
  | newspaper = The Symi Visitor
  | date = Spring 2009
  | url = http://issuu.com/allanjhunter/docs/spring09/1
  | access-date = 2009-09-20
  | archive-date = 2011-12-23
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111223200808/http://issuu.com/allanjhunter/docs/spring09/1
  | url-status = live
  }}</ref>

===Local media===
The island has one local amateur AM radio station, Radio Symi, broadcasting on 1485&nbsp;kHz.