Greek Islands
Hellenic IslandsSantorini is my favourite island in Greece. It is the largest Greek island and rich in beaches, historical sites, walks and small towns. Naxos is the most family-friendly island in Greece.
Hellenic Islands Tours
In the islands, you are often eaten as a long-sunfamily, with meals that are rich in tradition and proud. Inselhüpfen is a gastronomic experience and a trip through the area. Every island's cheeses are different and its green tones and honeys are different. Go to a port to observe the day-to-day fishing from the fishermen's net and look for those who collect products on the slopes.
Many islands boast the heritage of Greek flavoured pastas, such as sumptuous gravies with shellfish stewed in ouzo. These islands are sitting like swimming magnet for everyone who loves the great outdoor life. Walk on paved trails, walk in volcanos, dolphin kayaks, observe tortoises and bike through luxuriant forrests.
Greek islands are also an ideal place to try out new activities, with some of the best kitesurf, dive and climb sites in the whole canyon. Embrace the antique Delos remains or walk through the restored Minoan Knossos Castle and you can almost feel the old Greeks on your side.
Away from these famous places are the calmer remains spread throughout almost every of the islands, full of secrets and often covered with wild flowers - from the huge Naxos statue marbles to the colorful 2. Hellenic remains are as impressing as many. That' insularity. Walk through luscious wild flowers in early springs or lazy in lonely sand bays inýsummer.
Melting from one to the other, full of kilometres of aquamarine coasts with some of the clearest sandy beach in Europe.
Archipelago of Greece!
Archipelago of Greece! Islands are the principal feature of Greek morphology and an inherent part of the country's cultural and traditional heritage. Greece has 6,000 islands and small islands in the Ionian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, of which only 227 are populated. An archipelago covering 7,500 km of the country's 16,000 km of coast, it offers a very varied landscape: kilometres of beach, protected secluded inlets, pebbly beach, gravel beach, cliff caverns and deep sands, all of which are typically found in mountainous areas and marshlands.
Most of these Greek sands have been given the Blueflag as part of the Blueflags of Europe programme and offer not only bathing, but also snorkelling, dipping, water ski, yachting and wind surfing. Several of the oldest civilisations in Europe have evolved on the Greek islands (Cyclades, Minoan civilisations, etc.), so that the islands have unmistakable archaeological places, an unmistakable architectonic legacy and the intriguing indigenous tradition of a centuries-old and diverse civilisation.
Because of the perfect weather, secure water and short distance between harbours and coastlines, the Greek islands are very attractive to Greek and international people. The majority of the islands are located in the Aegean Sea and are subdivided into seven groups (from N to S): Evia Préfecture (to which Skiros is part) is located next to Viotia Préfecture in the eastern and southern Aegean Sea, in the northern and north-western Pagasitiko and Maliako Gulf, in the western and south-western Evian Gulf.
This group of 56 islands includes the most important Amorgos, Anafi, Andros, Antiparos, Delos, Ios, Kea, Kimolos, Kythnos, Milos, Mykonos, Naxos, Paros, Santorini, Serifos, Sikinos, Sifnos, Syros, Tinos, Folegandros and the "Minor Cyclades" with Donousa, Irakleia, Koufonisia and Schinousa. Ionian Sea has only one set of islands: Zakynthos, Ithaca, Corfu, Kefallonia, Lefkada, Paxi and Kythira, located opposite the Peloponnese (Laconia).
The largest islands of the Ionian Sea form the well-known Eptanissa (i.e. seven islands; in Greek epoxy means seven). Antipaxi, Ereikoussa, Kalamos, Kastos, Mathraki, Meganissi, Othoni, Skorpios, Strofades are smaller islands of the Ionian Sea. Gavdos (south of Crete), Elafonissos (in the Gulf of Lakonia) and Trizonis (in the Gulf of Corinth) are islands of incomparable pristine nature.