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s AUGUST PANEGÝRIA
IKARÍA The annual festivals
that celebrate the
saints’ days of many
ΙΚΑΡΙΑ churches in Greece,
known as panegýria,
~ ⌂ 12 km (7 miles) NE of Ágios Kýrikos g @ Ágios Kýrikos are famous for being
particularly wild on
EXPERIENCE The Northeast Aegean Islands near the sun on artificial wings and plunged to his for the Holy Mother
n Citizen Service Centre, Ágios Kýrikos; 22753 50521
Ikaría. They reach their
Lying little over 20 km (12 miles) west of Sámos, wild
peak in August, when
Ikaría is named after the Ikaros of legend who flew too
there are celebrations
and other saints. In
death. Perhaps the offbeat nature of its mythological
the Ráhes villages,
namesake has imbued the character of the island’s
especially, there is
inhabitants, who have a reputation for eccentricity.
all-night live tradi-
tional music, dancing,
feasting on roast goat
and prodigious amounts
among the boulders in the
1
of wine, beer and ouzo.
shallows of the sea. Twelve km
Ágios Kírykos
(7 miles) to the east, towards
Ágios Kírykos, the island’s
capital and main port, is a
deserted Hellenistic watch­
tower, Fáros is a lovely sandy
shrouded in cloud even in
pleasant town with a modest
stretch of beach.
archaeological museum as its
high summer, to the other
only tourist attraction. It is lonely Cape Drákano and its of the island, which is often
main port of Évdilos. About
flanked by two spas, one of 2 km (1 mile) west of here
them dating to Roman times 2 lies the village of Kámbos.
and still popular with an older It boasts a broad, sandy
Greek clientele. A number of Évdilos beach, a ruined 12th­century
hot baths can be visited at ⌂ 32 km (20 miles) W of church and the remains of
Thérma, a short walk to the Ágios Kírykos a Byzantine manor house,
northeast, while at Thérma remaining from a time when
Lefkádas, to the southwest, It is a heart­in­mouth ride the island was considered a
the springs still well up across the massive spine humane place of exile for
0 kilometres 5 N Sámos, Híos
Ikaria
0 miles 5 Airport
Ik aría Fáros
Perdiki Beach
Monokambi
Armenistís Kámbos Oxa
Beach Kyparissi Sámos
Beach Karavostamo
Mýkonos
Nas Beach Évdilos Thérma
Ágios
Polýkarpos Maratho Efanos
Ágios Dimítrios 1,040 m (3,410 ft) Ágios Kírykos
Christós Kastaniés Steli Thérma Lefkádas
Profitis The Ráhes Xilosirtis Foúrni
Kouniádi Ilias Villages 20 km (12 miles)
Plagia
Magganítis Seychelles Chrysostomou
Beach
Kálamos
Karkinágri
Tínos, Náxos
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