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Extract from the Vathy (Smos) Travel Guides:
Lining the steep northeastern shore of a deep bay, beachless
VATHY
(often confusingly referred to as
SMOS
, like the island) is a busy provincial town which grew from a minor anchorage after 1830, when it replaced Hra as the island's capital. It's an unlikely, somewhat ungraceful resort, which has seen several hotel bankruptcies since the late 1990s, and is minimally interesting for the most part - although the pedestrianized bazaar, tiers of surviving Neoclassical houses and the hill suburb of
NO VATHY
, a separate community of tottering, tile-roofed houses have some attraction - and the only real...
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