Saronic Islands

The Cyclades dominate the list of the most expensive holiday homes for sale, as the high demand and strong tourism interest of recent years have brought the asking prices to a level that surpasses the majority of parts of Attica.

SYRIZA's president returned to Spetses yesterday afternoon

Malvina Panagiotidi's solo exhibition, "All Dreams Are Vexing," at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Kallirois & Amvrosiou Frantzi, emst.gr), stems from her 2023 research on the Saronic island of Spetses, where one of the first great female artists of modern Greece, Eleni Boukoura-Altamoura, sought solace after her children's tragic deaths.

Spetses is still a welcome emerald oasis at the mouth of the Argolic Gulf

Waves batter the port of Rafina in Attica. Ferries remained tied up at the ports of Piraeus, Rafina, and Lavrio on Sunday and Monday due to gale-force winds reaching up to 9 Beaufort in some places. Hydrofoils that service the Argo-Saronic Gulf islands (Salamina, Aegina, Hydra, Poros and Spetses) were also prohibited from sailing.

The cosmopolitan Greek island of the Saronic Gulf is famed for its seafood cuisine and wonderful almond sweets.

Ships departing from the ports of Attica for the Greek islands on Monday and Tuesday were almost fully booked as people continued to quit the capital for the August 15 holiday, particularly for destinations in the Cyclades.

Στην Kapopoulos Fine Arts Spetses Gallery - Εγκαίνια 2 Σεπτεμβρίου 

Heavy traffic in Greece. The ferry tickets are over. Greeks and foreigners "take over" the islands for Easter.

Ships remained moored in ports around much of the country on Monday as winds at sea reached up to 9 Beaufort in the Aegean.