The island atlas
Every island, sea by sea
29 islands in 7 groups, from Crete in the south to Samothraki in the north and Corfu in the west. Pick a sea, then pick your island.
Κρήτη
Crete
An island of its own: gorges, Minoan palaces and the Libyan Sea.
Κυκλάδες
Cyclades
White villages on bare rock, circled around sacred Delos.
11 islands: Naxos, Santorini, Mykonos, Delos, Paros, Ios, Sifnos, Milos, Folegandros, Syros, Tinos
ΝάξοςNaxos
Ariadne's island, with marble villages and long sandy beaches
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ΣαντορίνηSantorini
A ring of cliffs around a drowned volcano, with white villages on the rim
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ΜύκονοςMykonos
The party island of Greece: Little Venice at sunset, beach clubs till dawn, and sacred Delos next door
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ΔήλοςDelos
An island that is one great sanctuary: three temples to Apollo, the lions of the Naxians and the gods of every trader who landed here
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ΠάροςParos
The marble island, with a fishing harbour that glows at dusk
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ΊοςIos
The party island of the Cyclades, with a hill town of bars, a long sandy bay below it and, at the northern tip, the tomb of Homer
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ΣίφνοςSifnos
The island where Saturday night smells of wood smoke and chickpeas, and a ferry stops for a rock
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ΜήλοςMilos
The volcanic island of coloured rocks, sea caves and painted boathouses
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Folegandros
'Iron Folegandros': a village on the lip of a 200 m cliff, a medieval Kastro still lived in, and farmsteads walled against the wind
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ΣύροςSyros
The capital of the Cyclades: two hills, two churches, an opera house and loukoumi
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ΤήνοςTinos
Marble villages, a thousand dovecotes and the holiest church in Greece
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Σαρωνικός
Saronic
Islands of the gulf, an hour by boat from Athens.
3 islands: Aegina, Hydra, Poros
ΑίγιναAegina
Two Archaic temples, a ghost town of chapels and the first capital of modern Greece, forty minutes from Piraeus
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ΎδραHydra
The best island for art and bohemians: no cars, captains' mansions and an artists' colony that drew Leonard Cohen
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ΠόροςPoros
A town on a volcanic rock, a strait you can almost swim across, and pine woods full of coves
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Σποράδες
Sporades
Pine-green islands scattered off the coast of Pelion.
Δωδεκάνησα
Dodecanese
Knights, sponge divers and harbours facing Asia Minor.
5 islands: Kos, Rhodes, Symi, Patmos, Kasos
ΚωςKos
Island of Hippocrates, hot springs and long sandy beaches
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ΡόδοςRhodes
Island of the Knights, Lindos and two seas
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ΣύμηSymi
A harbour of painted mansions, sponge divers' stories and coves you reach by boat
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ΠάτμοςPatmos
The island of the Apocalypse, quiet and white
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ΚάσοςKasos
The heroic island at the end of the Dodecanese: a harbour lit from under the water, all-night feasts and the memory of 1824
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Βόρειο Αιγαίο
North Aegean
Big, green and wild islands off the Anatolian coast.
5 islands: Ikaria, Samos, Chios, Samothraki, Agios Efstratios
ΙκαρίαIkaria
The island where people forget to die
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ΣάμοςSamos
Island of Hera, Pythagoras and Muscat wine
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ΧίοςChios
The mastic island, of medieval villages and citrus mansions
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ΣαμοθράκηSamothraki
The wild mountain island of waterfalls, plane forests and the Great Gods
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Άγιος ΕυστράτιοςAgios Efstratios
Ai Stratis, the island of exile: one village, wild volcanic beaches and a museum of democracy at the end of the Aegean
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Ιόνιο
Ionian
Venetian towns and olive groves on the western sea.
3 islands: Corfu, Paxos, Zakynthos
ΚέρκυραCorfu
The green Ionian island of Venetian lanes, olive groves and turquoise bays
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ΠαξοίPaxos
The island of peace and quiet: no airport, olive groves to the sea and the turquoise bays of Antipaxos
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ΖάκυνθοςZakynthos
The party strip of Laganas, a turtle sanctuary next door and the cliffs of the Shipwreck
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