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Agios Efstratios or Saint Eustratius (Greek: Άγιος Ευστράτιος), colloquially Ai Stratis (Greek: Άη Στράτης), anciently Halonnesus or Halonnesos (Ancient Greek: Ἁλόννησος), [3] is a small Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea about 30 kilometres (19 miles) southwest of Lemnos and 80 kilometres (50 miles) northwest of Lesbos.
The island is a Natura 2000 protected area with no more than 5% of its area to be developed. [8] The Greek government is yet to confirm the legality of the purchase. An investigation is underway, as Giannis Mihelakis (a New Democracy MP ) raised the question in the Greek parliament. [ 9 ]
Chora or Hora (Greek: Χώρα [2]), officially Ios (Greek: Ίος), is the capital town of Ios Island in Greece and is the largest settlement on the island. It contains many of the island's facilities of tourism such as hotels and apartments. The town has only some small roads for cars many paths only accessible by foot.
There are some cities that actually pay you to live there, with some giving away lots for free and others paying residents to move in. These places will pay you to live there — but there’s a catch
Kythnos (Greek: Κύθνος, pronounced), commonly called Thermia (Greek: Θερμιά), is a Greek island and municipality in the Western Cyclades between Kea and Serifos.It is 56 nautical miles (104 km) from the Athenian harbor of Piraeus.
Greece has many islands, [Note 1] with estimates ranging from somewhere around 1,200 [1] to 6,000, [2] depending on the minimum size to take into account. The number of inhabited islands is variously cited as between 166 [3] and 227. [2] The largest Greek island by both area and population is Crete, located at the southern edge of the Aegean Sea.
Dokos (Greek: Δοκός) is a small Greek island of the Argo-Saronic Gulf, adjacent to Hydra, and separated from the Peloponnese by a narrow strait called, on some maps, "the Hydra Gulf." It is part of the municipality of Ýdra (Hydra) in Islands regional unit and reported a population of 18 persons at the 2011 census.
The village on the Italian island hit headlines in 2018 when it began selling some of its unloved homes for a single euro. Now the town has launched a new scheme aimed at attracting digital nomads ...