skopelos travel guide

Skopelos Travel Guide – Best of Skopelos Island: History, beaches, places to visit & more.   …Skopelos has the greatest depth of all the Northern Sporades islands, with its [...]

General In the last half-hour of the boat journey to Skopelos from the mainland, the ferry rounds Cape Gourouni and sails parallel to the eastern shore of the island, past bay after bay of [...]

History and legend The discovery of a substantial Bronze Age shaft-grave on the promontory at Stafilos in 1936 provided clear evidence of Cretan colonisation on the island in the late 17th [...]

Skopelos Chora From the sea, the ascending sweep of the  Chora of Skopelos is an amphitheatre of clear and simple architectural forms—triangles, squares and cylinders—enhanced by contrasts [...]

Outer Chora The remaining churches of interest in Chora are farther flung. Inland of the southern end of the waterfront (beyond Plateia Platanos), is the 18th century church of the Panaghia [...]

The south and the east of the Island The eastern Monasteries The shoreline road which passes the Asklepieion is the only access to the eastern extremity of the island and the group of monasteries [...]

South of Chora to Stafilos (Chora = 0.0km for distances in text) Almost due south of the waterfront, a good asphalt road leads into the fertile valley of Stafilos, an area which has always been [...]

THE NORTH OF THE ISLAND Mount Delphi and Sendoukia From the northern extremity of the peripheral road around the Chora of Skopelos, a narrow road leads north and west into the island’s interior [...]

Panormos, Glossa and around Cape Gourouni The west coast of the island is characterised by bay after bay of azure water, thick pinewoods descending to the shore and a general sparseness of [...]