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14 ALEXANDROS 0 kilometres 2 N
SKIÁTHOS PAPADIAMANTIS 0 miles 2 Kástro Lalária
Skiáthos’s most famous
native, Alexandros Skiáthos Moní Agíou Beach
ΣΚΙΆΘΟΣ Papadiamantis (1851– Panagía Haralámbou Evangelistrías
1911) grew up on the
Kardási
Monastery
Panagía Kehreás
k 2 km (1 mile) NE of Skiáthos town g @ Harbour front, island before moving to Eliá Asélinos Kehriá Beach Profítis Ilías Taxiárhis Skiathos
Athens. He worked as a
EXPERIENCE The Sporádes and Évvia Skiáthos now balances its role as a bucket-and-spade over 100 novellas and Banana Koukounariés Kounístras Zorbades Plataniás Achladias Town International
Skiáthos town n skiathos.gr
journalist while also
An unashamedly hedonistic island since the 1960s,
officiating at a church in
Beach
Monastiráki. He wrote
when it attracted the rich and famous with its beaches,
Ágios Ioánnis
Beach
Skiáthos
Mandráki
Airport
Panagías
Beach
short stories, all flow­
paradise for family package tours with being a summer
ing from his sharp
mecca for hipsters.
Fteliá
observation of island
life. Among his works
Árkos
are The Gypsy Girl and
The new and old ports are
Koukounariés
1
Beach
The Murderess. In 1908
separated by the Boúrtzi, a
Beach
Troúllos
Skiáthos Town
Máratha
Papadiamantis came
pine-covered islet reached by
Skýros,
Beach
Skiáthos’s oldest quarter is a
Skópelos
Thessaloníki
he lived as a recluse
hosts a summer cultural
charming place with red-tiled
before dying aged 60.
roofs and a maze of cobbled
festival, with venues including
Tsoungriáki
an amphitheatre and the
streets. It covers two small a narrow cause way. The islet back to Skiáthos, where Kalamáki Tsoungriá
hills, dominated by the 19th- Neo-Classical former school,
century cathedral of Trión guarded by a statue of writer and coves on Tsouvgriá or Vólos
Ierarhón, and the nearby Alexandros Papadiamantis. Árkos islets. Just off the main
church of Ágios Nikólaos at Life in the town centres on street is the Papadiamantis
the district’s highest point, the long quayside. In the Museum, in the former house
where you can climb to the summer, it attracts people for of the island-native writer. The
belfry balcony for 360-degree a stroll in the after-dark cool; upper floor, left as it was when
views. Southwest of Trión by day, there is the spectacle he lived here, reflects his reli-
Ierarhón, lanes wind through of arriving and departing giously ascetic lifestyle; he
a quiet district of restored sea ferries and hydrofoils. The old spent several years in Athens
captains’ houses, festooned in fishing port marks the west- as a psáltis (church chanter)
bougainvillea and trellised ern end of the quay; this is and officiated at a church.
vines. The newer quarter – where small boats depart for
destroyed by the Germans in day trips around the island, Papadiamantis Museum
1944 – is undistinguished, but calling at famous northcoast " § 24270 22240
it provides some decent beaches difficult to reach by # 9:30am–1:30pm &
shopping opportunities. land, such as Kástro, Lalária, 5:30–7:30pm daily
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