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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 .
But as the 20th century arrived, bringing motorized transport to the rest of Greece, the island’s narrow and steep streets, coupled with rocky terrain, made cars impractical to get around in.
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]
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.
It’s 10 p.m. on Antiparos, a small Greek island off of the coast of Paros (hence the name), and we’re scrambling to make what we’re convinced is the last ferry back.
The island is approximately semi-circular in shape, consisting of a single, steep, flat-top mountain whose sides plunge directly into the sea. The only flat land is at the southern tip of the island, which is where the only settlement is located. There are no cars on the island, and in 2021 the population stood at 66.
With 227 inhabited islands in total and six main island regions, Greece offers almost too much choice. Lucy Thackray lays out some of the best routes to help you plan your next island-hopping ...
ΚΧ Dodecanese prefecture – Kos island (ΚΧΑ plates were also issued for cars in Rodos Island due to lack of ΡΟΖ plates at that time) ΚΧ [O, Υ, X] (red letters) tax free cars; ΜΑ Chalkidiki prefecture – Polygyros (future use) ΜΒ Samos prefecture – Samos (future use) ΜΕ Aitoloakarnania prefecture – Messolongi