Shore Excursion Spinalonga Island, Traditional Villages and Churches

Detailed Itinerary

• Elounda Village

  From the port of Elounda, we will take the boat to the island of Spinalonga

• Spinalonga island

  The Spinalonga has 1200-1500 visitors daily during the summer months and is one of the most popular archaeological sites in Crete. Spinalonga is also known as Leper Island, where it was where patients from Crete and the rest of Greece were quarantined until 1957

• Agios Nikolaos

  Agios Nikolaos is a beautiful town with a small-town feel, one that has lots to offer. The Lake and port, and the Marina. Its unique features, start with the lake a folklore-inspiringly deep body of water that is connected to the sea by a narrow inlet. The lake joins the sea with a strip of water under the tiny road bridge.

• Church of Panagia Kera

  Church of Panagia Kera: one of Crete's most important visitable monuments due to its extensive and well-preserved wall painting decoration from various periods of ­Byzantine art. The original church, dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos, was built in the middle of the 13th century during the Byzantine period