Amphitheatre town
White houses on the hill.
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Skopelos Town is the main port and centre of the island of Skopelos in the Northern Sporades, in the western Aegean east of the Pelion peninsula, about 72 km east of Volos in a straight line. The island covers 96 square kilometres, slightly larger than Mykonos and Santorini. Legend says it was founded by Staphylos, a son of Dionysus, whose name means «grape». In the Late Bronze Age it was known as Peparethos and was settled by the Minoans, who brought vine growing. Today the island is thickly wooded, with pines covering most of its slopes, and Mount Delphi rises to 681 metres in the middle. The town's white houses with grey and red slate roofs climb a hill above a wide bay like an amphitheatre, scattered with more than a hundred small churches. A white church stands on a rock at the end of the harbour, and a quay lined with cafés and boats runs along the waterfront. Visitors arrive by ferry from Volos, Agios Konstantinos or Skiathos, wander the climbing lanes, then head out to beaches among the pines. Skopelos is known for its coiled cheese pie and dried plums.
White houses on the hill.
Over a hundred.
The island dish.
Skopelos harbour, Skopelos island, Greece
By ferry from Volos or Skiathos.
The coiled cheese pie.