ikaria travel guide

Ikaria Travel Guide – Best of Ikaria Island: History, beaches, places to visit & more.   …every village is an assemblage of fertile gardens, and its people seem bound by a deep [...]

GeneralFrom any approach by sea, the island of Ikari­a presents a forbidding wall of high mountains, steep slopes and rocky shores which—unprotected by any neighbouring land or island—bear the [...]

HistoryThat an island with such plentiful fresh water has been inhabited since early prehistoric times is no surprise. West of Aghios Kirykos, in the area of Glaredo, evidence of extensive [...]

Aghios Kirykos and the South Coast of the island(For distances, Aghios Ki­rykos = 0.0 km) Aghios Ki­rykos—referred to locally just as ‘Aghios’—is a pleasant and business-like port, named after [...]

The south coast, east of Aghios KirykosTwo kilometres east of Aghios Ki­rykos, the small settlement of Therma lies at the foot of a steep and airless gorge, dotted with tamarisk and palm trees. [...]

The south coast, west of Aghios KirykosTwo kilometres south of Aghios Ki­rykos and 200m before a right turn to Glaredo, a tiny blue and white sign, reading ‘Hot mineral springs’, points down to [...]

Pramnian wineIt was into a concoction based on cheese, fresh hon ey and Pramnian wine, that Circe poured the potion which was to turn Odysseus’s men into swine (Od. X. 635). In fact, Homer [...]

The Legend of IcarusAlthough the pictorial image of a mythical human flight may appear on vase-painting much earlier, the literary accounts of the escape of Daedalus and Icarus from the Labyrinth [...]

From Aghios Kirykos to  Evdilosand Koskinas Castle(For distances, Aghios Ki­rykos = 0.0km) The road north from Aghios Ki­rykos climbs tortuously through a number of almost contiguous villages. [...]

The West of the Island-Kambos to Karginagri(For distances, Kambos = 0.0 km) Around the bay and village of Kambos (2.5km west of Evdilos) are the remains of ancient Oenoe, whose name, cognate with [...]