{"id":6589,"date":"2018-04-23T21:38:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T21:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxurios.com\/?p=6589"},"modified":"2018-11-01T06:20:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:20:20","slug":"independent-swap-santorini-ios-instagram-worthy-greek-island-thats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxurios.com\/en\/press-mentioning\/independent-swap-santorini-ios-instagram-worthy-greek-island-thats\/","title":{"rendered":"The Independent | Why you should swap Santorini for Ios, the Instagram-worthy Greek island that&#8217;s on the up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by JAMES LITSTON, 24th May 2018<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s incredible to discover such empty spots so close to crowded Santorini and Mykonos; but Ios\u2019s upmarket makeover extends even here. Having acquired a huge chunk of the island, including this beach-studded coastline, entrepreneur Angelos Michalopoulos and his wife Vasso are preserving swathes of countryside while pumping millions into a scattering of high-end, low-density developments under their Luxurios brand.<\/p>\n<a class=\"button small \" style=\"background-color:#f4ae40 !important;color:#ffffff !important;border:1px solid #f4ae40 !important;\" onclick=\"window.open('https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/europe\/ios-greece-island-holidays-santorini-review-best-beaches-things-to-do-mylopotas-a8317831.html', '_blank')\">FULL ARTICLE HERE<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s early evening on the Greek isle of Ios. From the barren hilltop above Chora (Ios Town), I\u2019m watching the sun sink towards the horizon. Everything below me, from the roofs of the town\u2019s whitewashed houses to the Aegean Sea beyond, is bathed in glorious, golden light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[721],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxurios.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxurios.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxurios.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxurios.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxurios.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/luxurios.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7762,"href":"https:\/\/luxurios.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589\/revisions\/7762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxurios.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxurios.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxurios.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxurios.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6589"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxurios.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}