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Apr 17, 2024 · It’s only 800 metres from the Turkish coast, but has still kept a strong Greek spirit. And regular flights and ferries from Rhodes mean it’s easy to lose yourself out there. Kastellorizo waterfront. The island has spent a lot of its history under Turkish or Italian rule. And its population fell from a peak of 9000 in the 1900s to just 400.
Feb 1, 2024 · An insider’s guide to Kastellorizo, Greece’s most underrated island. “The front row of Kastellorizo looks like a theatre set, and the backstreets are like the backstage where you find the real life of the local people with their secret stories,” says Marie Rivalant, a Parisian architect who has helped to reverse the fortunes of this thriving 19th-century shipping port, which was badly ...
Kastellorizo or Castellorizo (US: / ˌkɑːstəˈlɔːrɪzoʊ / KAH-stə-LOR-iz-oh; [3] Greek: Καστελλόριζο, romanized: Kastellórizo), officially Megisti (Μεγίστη, Megísti), is a Greek island and municipality of the Dodecanese in the Eastern Mediterranean. [4][5] It lies roughly 2 kilometres (1 mile) off the south coast of ...
A Remote Treasure Island. On the easternmost side of Greece you’ll come across Kastellorizo, one of the smallest yet prettiest islands of the Dodecanese complex. Also known as Megisti during antiquity, the island has a long history starting in the early Neolithic era. Its ancient name lasted until the Middle Ages, when the knights of St John ...
Mar 23, 2021 · The outer fringes of Greece. The island of Kastellorizo (sometimes called Megisti or Meyisti) is the easternmost island not only of the Dodecanese archipelago but of entire of Greece. Reaching Kastellorizo is not exactly straightforward as the nearest (inhabited) island is Rhodes, some four hours away by ferry or 40 minutes by small propeller ...
Kastellorizo Historical Collection This small museum is easy to spot: it’s housed in a mosque whose minaret punctuates the waterfront in the old Ottoman quarter. Household objects, folk art, costumes and archival documents tell the story of the island’s 19th- and 20th-century history—a long tussle for control by the Greeks, Ottomans, French, British, and Italians.
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The village of Kastellorizo has two ports and multi-colored houses at the seafront which remind of those in Symi. All the 400 hundred residents of the island live here and the village offers tavernas, mini markets and accommodation in small hotels and guesthouses. There are no roads outside the village (except for the road to the airport and to ...
