Skiathos

Map of Skiathos

Skiathos is a small island which belongs to Sporades complex. It's the closest island to the mainland with 48km² extension and 6.000 population. The real business of Skiathos is beaches. By far the best in Sporades. There are over fifty strands, most with fine, pale sand. The main road along to the South and Southeast coasts serves an almost unbroken line of villas, hotels, minimarkets and restaurants. In Skiathos it's difficult to find anything particularly Greek, but by hiking or using 4WD vehicle you can find anything relative solitude, refreshing vistas and charming medieval monuments in the island's North. Skiathos is a very popular destination for young ages due to nightlife.

Skiathos Town

Skiathos Town, the only real population centre on the island, is set on a couple of low hills around a point, with the ferry harbor and new town to the East, the picturesque old port, with the old town rising above it, in the West.

Skopelos

Skopelos is the second larger island of Sporades after Skyros with 95km² and 4.600 inhabitants approximately. Skopelos Town(Hora), the capital of the island, and Glossa are the two main towns and each one of them has a port that connects the island with Volos and the rest of Sporades. Much of the countryside, especially the Southwest coast, is really spectacular, with a series of pretty cove beaches backed by extensive pine forests as well as olive groves and orchards of plums, apricots, pears and almonds. Filled with  forests that covering approximately 80% of the area is considered the greenest island in the Aegean.

Map of Skopelos