Due to the splendid statue of "Aphrodite of Milos", the fame of the island spread far from the Greek borders, as the statue is located at the Louvre and it generates the complete admiration from the visitors of the museum.

The civilization of Milos flourished for many centuries and developed the arts and especially those of pottery and sculpturing. And then again when this civilization was broken down, Milos became a station for Religion. During the first years of Christianity it had the catacombs, some of which are preserved until today.

Milos is the 5th in size, island of the Cyclades. It stretches out to 151 square kilometers and the length of its coastal line reaches 126 kilometers. Its shape looks vaguely like a horseshoe. Therefore its port is very safe. 

The island doesn't have any high mountains. Halakas is 751 meters high. Administratively Milos falls under the municipality of the Cyclades, having as its capital Ermoupolis of Syros. The capital of Milos itself is the town named Plaka. The whole island constitutes the municipality of Milos. Unfortunately the island does not have any vegetation other than some bushy areas at the south part of the island, but during Spring you can see many kinds of wild flowers. Milos is also a passage way for a large amount of migrating birds that come through here during Spring when traveling from Africa towards Europe and visa versa during Autumn.

A note should be made to the wild goat of Antimilos, close relative to the wild goat of Crete that exclusively lives at the ill-natured island of Antimilos

 The African plate with the passing of time is colliding with the Eurasian plate and is submerging. The collision of these two masses creates seismic trembles and earthquakes. This has as a result the deposition of hard rocks from the surface, at a depth of approximately one hundred kilometers at the interior of the earth, were high pressures and temperatures are developed. These rocks are transformed to liquid mass and reappear again at the surface of the earth, in the form of volcanic lava. In the area of the south Aegean, this volcanic activity had generally started before approximately 3 million years, but in Milos it started more recently. The volcanic activity has offered to the island various useful minerals, rocks and ores and also geothermal liquids.

From the geological side, Milos is constituted almost to it full by volcanic rocks aged from 2.5 to 0.5 million years. Therefore the creation of Milos started with volcanic activity approximately 2,5 million years ago, when in an area of the Aegean sea there were a lot of rocky islands from Mesozoic formations, that are easily identified today. These islands existed at the cape of Spathi and at the areas of Palioremata, Langada and Prasonisi.

The immersion of the central area of the Aegean, together with that of Milos, is estimated that to have happened approximately 9 million years ago. The island due to its central position in the greater Aegean area, bared many compressive and drawing tensions, having as a result the breaking and fracturing of its rocks especially at its southern part. This is how the geophysical conditions were created for the formation of the large gulf of Milos

Due to the intense volcanic hydrothermal activity to the ground of Milos, there are many warm springs, with valuable components for the healing of many diseases. The healing spas of the island were known from ancient times. Hippocrates refers to them in his 5th book with the title "Peri Epidimion" (About Epidemics).

A lot latter in 1771, the French professor of Botany, Pitton de Tournefort refers to them in his "sigh-seeing" scripts. Today some springs are used and very few of them are utilized. The most important are the following: the Baths of Lakkos, baths of Makrinos, Pikropigi or Tsilloneri, baths of Provata, Baths of Aliki and the baths of Kanava.