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few good tavernas and lots of
accommodation. Boat trips
0 kilometres 5 N
Ágios Pétros depart from here to visit the
Beach Palamári
0 miles 5 sea caves of Pendekáli and
Skyros
Airport Diatryptí, as well as the beach-
islet of Sarakinó.
Merói Gyrísmata
Kyrá Beach
Panagiá
Beach West Coast Pouriá Beach 4
Atsítsa Beaches East Coast Brooke’s Grave
Beach Beaches Mólos Beach
Skýros Town Magaziá Beach ⌂ 20 km (12 miles) E of
Skýros town
Ágios Fokás Aspoús
Beach
At Tris Boúkes, which has a
Kouloúri Ahíli Skýr o s
Péfkos natural deep-water harbour,
Beach Linariá is poet Rupert Brooke’s elabo-
rate grave, signposted in an
Kalamítsa
Beach olive grove. Brooke (1887–
Rínia Sea Caves
Válaxa Kóhylas 1915) died of a mosquito bite
792 m (2,598 ft) on a ship bound for the fight-
Vounó ing at Gallipoli in World War I.
Tris Boúkes Brooke’s
Beach Grave
EAT
Platia Sarakinó
Istories tou Barba
Évvia
Excellent menu focusing
on seafood ensures full
tables here most days.
the notable British poet pottery studios inland; Mólos, Best sea-view terrace on
Rupert Brooke, who died on with better sand; and Pouriá, the island.
the island, the statue is known with weird rock out crops on ⌂ Magaziá/Mólos beach
as Immortal Poetry. the cape. Around the coast boundary § 22220
On another edge of the is big, sandy Gyrísmata. 91453
town the main branch of the ¡¡¡
Skýros Centre runs summer
courses in yoga, reflexology, 3
music, crea tive writing and Lambros
windsurfing. There is an West Coast Beaches Grilled chops, seafood
annexe of the centre at ⌂ 14 km (9 miles) W of and home-style
Atsítsa, on the west coast. casserole dishes make
Skýros town this a favourite for
Faltaïts Museum West of Skýros town, past the locals and visitors.
'" ⌂ Paleópyrgos, Platía Bronze Age site of Palamári ⌂ Through road, Aspoús
Rupert Brooke § 22220 and the airport turning, are § 22220 91388
91232 # Summer: 10am– the more sheltered beaches ¡¡¡
2pm & 6–9pm daily; winter: of Ágios Pétros and Kyrá
5:30–8pm daily Panagiá on the coast of Merói Eleónas
(the northern half of Skýros),
Tzitzírafa (lentisc
though neither have facilities. shoots), ftéri (fern
2 The nearest are at the village sprouts) and marinated
of Atsítsa, which has no beach.
East Coast Beaches Continuing along the Merói tuna are prepared by all-
loop road leads to sandy female chefs in the
⌂ 1 km (0.5 mile) N of Skýros olive-grove.
town Péfkos on the west coast, the ⌂ Leftó Gialós beach
island’s most scenic and wind-
Just above Skýros town are protected beach. This is just ∑ eleonas-alonissos.gr
the east coast’s best beach before Linariá, the ferry port ¡¡¡
resorts. From south to north, settlement, which is not
they are Magaziá, with a few without charm and offers a
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