Skyros

Map of Skyros

Skyros, the Southernmost island of Sporades, is the largest one with 206km² extension and 2.600 residents population. Despite it's natural beauty, Skyros has a relatively low profile. There plenty of beaches but few can rival the sand of Skiathos or Skopelos. Skyros has an airport in the North and a naval base in the South. All the accommodation and tourist facilities cluster around Skyros Town, the capital, in the center of the island.

Skyros Town(Hora) is a beautiful place, Cycladic-style white, flat-floated, red-tiled houses clinging to the island slope of a pinnacle rising precipitously from the coast. A single main street leads up to a central square. Beyond that lies a 150m stretch lined with almost everything. 

Shops, banks, restaurants and bars.

A position bang in the center of the Aegean guaranteed the island a busy history: it was occupied from prehistory, with a truly impressive Bronze Age settlement currently being excavated , was a vital Athenian outpost in the Classical era, and an equally important naval base for the Byzantines.

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