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Oinousses: The island of the ship owners

Oinousses: The island of the ship owners

Opposite from Chios, exists a cluster of small islands, Oinousses. The biggest islet is Oinousses and probably took its name from the existence of vines. The graphic city Oinoussa is built amphitheatrically on an abrupt hill in the southern side of island and constituted from tall traditional and luxurious houses with...

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Lemnos: The island of Hephaestus

Lemnos: The island of Hephaestus

In Lemnos, according to mythology, was the workshop of Hephaestus. The exotic island with the beautiful beaches, and a history that goes back centuries, distinguishes for the richness of its rotations. (more…)

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Chios the “Μyrovοlos”

Chios the “Μyrovοlos”

Chios is located in the eastern Aegean Sea, just a few nautical miles off the Turkish shore of Mikra Asia and it is the fifth largest island of the Greek Islands. Chios is often called Μyrovοlos, from the aromas that emerge from the citrus tree blossoms during spring fill the air. Chios...

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Ikaria: Subversive and special

Ikaria: Subversive and special

Ikaria island got its name from Icarus, son of Daedalus. This island offers spectacular natural landscape, great scenery and inhabitants with eccentric untamed temperament. (more…)

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Psara: The island of heroes

Psara: The island of heroes

Psara is a small island with a very long history that showed great heroism in the 1821 National Struggle as the third naval power in Greece at the time and helped a lot in this fight of the Greeks. From this place came many famous fire-raisers like Kanaris, Vourekas, Vratsani etc. The Turks retaliated and destroyed the...

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Samos: The island of Pythagoras

Samos: The island of Pythagoras

Samos is in the East part of the Aegean Sea, close to the Asia Minor coastline. Samos (Vathi) is the capital of the island and the population is approximately 34.000. The town's construction began around the 18 th century, along the large gulf of Vathi , where a natural harbour had...

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Lesvos: Vast nature and ouzo!

Lesvos: Vast nature and ouzo!

Lesvos belongs to the islands of the North-eastern Aegean Sea, is the third largest Greek island after Crete and Evia and extends in 1630 sq. km. Its population is about 100,000 inhabitants and Mytilene is the capital of the island. (more…)

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Chania: One of the most beautiful destinations…

Chania: One of the most beautiful destinations…

Seat of the prefecture: Chania The main areas of the prefecture are: Kissamos - Kastelli, Palaiochora, Kandanos, Sfakia, Maleme, Platanias, Agia Marina, Fragokastello. The prefecture of Chania is one of the 4 prefectures in Crete. It occupies the western end of the island and it borders to the east with the prefecture of...

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Crete: Unique beauty, great monuments and warm hospitality

Crete: Unique beauty, great monuments and warm hospitality

Crete is the largest island of Greece and the 5 th largest in the Mediterranean. The north side of Crete borders to the Aegean Sea and the south side to the Libyan Sea. Crete is an island of contrasts! Basically a mountainous island with peaks reaching 2.500 metres, with thousands of paths...

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