Alonnissos, Ikos, Evonymos, Liodromia,
Hiliodromia - over the course of the centuries the island
has been called by many different names, but very little else
has changed. Alonnissos, a stopping-place on the sea routes
from the Northern Aegean to Crete since the 9th millennium
BC, has its own secrets in the age-old arts of ship-building,
seamanship and pottery, and exercises over the visitor its
own special charm. As you gaze out over the sea, the whole
history of the island seems to parade before your mind's eye,
like a long pageant stretching back into the early Christian
era.
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And earlier still, as the imagination
catches a glimpse of Jason in the Argo, sailing to the Black
Sea to recover the Golden Fleece, and the great fleet that
carried the Greek warriors to Troy. From yesteryear into the
present, in the same incomparably beautiful natural setting.
