The Greek island of Kos-floating Aegean Garden

The Greek island of Kos


The island of happiness and wealth
Dodekanes group of islands, including the island of Kos and Rhodes, is rattled in the Aegean Sea near Turkey. The history of human culture on the island of Kos reaches more than 3500 years in the past. Over time, the island had different names - Kynnis (after giant Kynnas), Karis (which according to the form of the island means garnel), Meropis (after the historic King of Island Meropas). Subsequently, the island is due to luck and wealth of its inhabitants renamed to the island Macarov, which in translation means "island of beatify".
Floating Aegean garden
Coast of the island of Kos, approximately 112 kilometers long, from that two-thirds of gorgeous, kilometer long sand and pebble beaches, which seem to stretch into infinity. They surround the crystal clear sea - seven beaches of the island is decorated with a blue flag. The biggest impression on the visitor makes just the beauty of the coast, blue sea and the sea booming oleanders throughout the island, which in the past, the island also called "floating Aegean Garden."



The Greek island of Kos

Greek island Crete

Crete is the largest Greek island in the far south of the Aegean Sea is located in the immediate vicinity of the African continent, namely in the vicinity of Egypt.The island of Crete is located southeast of mainland Greece. Crete is 8261 km2 largest Greek island in the Aegean Sea and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. According to data from the 1991 has a half-million inhabitants. It is a predominantly mountainous island. Picturesque mountain regions in the interior of Crete with traditional villages, beautiful beaches and wild landscapes in the south, a challenge to all visitors and lovers of natural beauty.


Greek island Crete

Home of Western civilization is right here in Crete. Residues minoian culture, which are already aged over 4000 years, show that civilization existed here before long times.


Greek island Crete

Facts about Greece-Greek Islands

The islands are Greece’s chief morphological trait and an integral part of the country’s civilisation and tradition. The Greek territory comprises 6,000 islands and islets scattered in the Aegean and Ionian Sea, a truly unique phenomenon on the European continent; of these islands only 227 are inhabited.


Greek Islands

The Greek Archipelago takes up 7,500 km of the country’s total 16,000-km coastline, offering a highly diversified landscape: beaches stretching along many kilometers, sheltered bays and coves, golden stretches of sand with dunes, pebbly beaches, coastal caves with steep rocks and black sand typical of volcanic soil, coastal wetlands.


Greek Islands


Greek Islands

Most islands lie in the Aegean Sea and are divided in seven groups:

• The Northeastern Aegean Islands: Agios Efstratios, Thasos, Ikaria, Lesvos, Limnos, Inousses, Samos, Samothrace, Chios, Psara.
• The Sporades: Alonissos, Skiathos, Skopelos, Skyros
• Evia
• The Argo-Saronic Islands: Angistri, Aegina, Poros, Salamina, Spetses, Hydra and the coastal area of Methana.
• The Cyclades: A group of 56 islands, its most important ones being Amorgos, Anafi, Andros, Antiparos, Delos, Ios, Kea, Kimolos, Kythnos, Milos, Mykonos, Naxos, Paros, Santorini, Serifos, Sikinos, Sifnos, Syros, Tinos, Folegandros, as well as the “Minor Cyclades” comprising Donousa, Irakleia, Koufonisia and Schinoussa.
• The Dodecanese: Astypalaia, Kalymnos, Karpathos, Kasos, Kastelorizo, Kos, Lipsi, Leros, Nisyros, Patmos, Rhodes, Symi, Tilos, Halki.
• Crete

The Ionian Sea is home to one sole island group:

The Ionian Islands: Zakynthos, Ithaca, Corfu, Cephallonia, Lefkada, Paxi, Antipaxi, Ereikoussa, Mathraki, Meganissi, Othoni, Strofades.
These islands, together with Kythira, which is however cut-off from the rest, opposite the southern Peloponnese (Lakonia), as well as neighbouring Antikythira, they constitute the Eptanissa.


Greek Islands