The island of Gavdos

The island of Gavdos It is located 337 km from the city of Athens, from Crete by ferry it takes an hour and a half, it is 300 km from Tobruk city of Libya. Its surface area is 37 km2, and no more than 50 inhabitants live. It is the southernmost island in Europe, even further south than Crete.

The island has three towns, Kastri is where the administrative offices are, only in the police station is where there is Internet access and it has only one policeman.

Ampels It is another town, where a few years ago a large lighthouse was built, and taking advantage of that construction, the local Ethnic Museum was installed, which until then operated in a house in the town of Vatsiana, the other town on the island of Gavdos.

Its vegetation is thick, like all places in the Mediterranean. From Sfákia, a boat departs for gavdos.

You can rent rooms at reasonable prices, not including breakfast, if you are going to rent for several days, you can get a cheaper price. Another way to stay is to rent an apartment or a room in the interior of the island, but in addition to renting a car or a motorcycle to go to the beach.

When it comes to the island of Gavdos It is immediately recommended as bioenergetics, meaning that visitors are energetically renewed.

Famous guests have come here such as the Nymph Calypso, Ulysses, the Roman soldiers brought him prisoner to San Pedro, it was also the refuge of the pirates of that time, among them Barbarossa, and at the present time between 1936 and 1940 the Party Leaders Greek Communist, they had to go into exile there, while the dictatorship of General Ioannis Metaxas lasted.


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