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This is a list of car-free islands: islands inhabited by humans which have legally restricted or eliminated vehicle traffic from their territories. This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it .
Cars are banned on the Aegean island of Hydra, adding to a laid-back vibe that once attracted Sophia Loren and Leonard Cohen and continues to pull in creatives today.
The island has an area of about 4.5 square kilometres (1.7 sq mi) [2] There are no cars or roads on the island. In antiquity, the island was called Cicynethus (Ancient Greek: Κικύνηθος, romanized: Kikynethos). [3] [4] [5] Ancient Kikynethos formed as polis (city-state) of Magnesia, ancient Thessaly. [6]
In ancient times, the island was known as Hydrea (Ὑδρέα, derived from the Greek word for "water"), a reference to the natural springs on the island. [ 4 ] The municipality of Hydra consists of the islands Hydra (area 49.6 km 2 (19.2 sq mi)), Dokos (area 13.5 km 2 (5.2 sq mi)), and a few uninhabited islets, with a total area of 64.443 km 2 ...
Skopelos (Greek: Σκόπελος, romanized: Skópelos, ) is a Greek island in the western Aegean Sea. Skopelos is one of several islands which comprise the Northern Sporades island group, which lies east of the Pelion peninsula on the mainland and north of the island of Euboea. It is part of the Thessaly region. Skopelos is also the name of ...
Lesbos or Lesvos (Greek: Λέσβος, romanized: Lésvos) is a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea.It has an area of 1,633 km 2 (631 sq mi), [2] with approximately 400 kilometres (249 miles) of coastline, making it the third largest island in Greece and the eighth largest in the Mediterranean.
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The second largest island in area is Euboea or Evvia, which is separated from the mainland by the 60m-wide Euripus Strait, and is administered as part of the Central Greece region. After the third and fourth largest Greek islands, Lesbos and Rhodes, the rest of the islands are two-thirds of the area of Rhodes, or smaller.