Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Rhó
Rhodes
Kaş
0
1
Áyios Stéfanos
Vathoryáki
kilometre
Plákes
MEDITERRANEAN
SEA
Army
base
Psorádhia
Profítis
Ilías
Knights' Castle
Lycian
House
Tomb
Ayías
Triádhos
Horáfia
Cemetery
Paleókastro
KASTELLÓRIZO
TOWN
Power
plant
Mandhráki
Cape
Nýftis
Vígla (270m)
AVLÓNIA
Wine press
Ayíou Yeoryíou
toú Vounioú
Wine press
Airstrip
Návlakas
N
8
Rubbish tip
Perastá
(Galázio Spílio)
KASTELLÓRIZO
supported by remittances from more than 30,000 emigrants, as well as subsidies from
the Greek government to prevent the island reverting to Turkey.
Yet Kastellórizo has a future of sorts, thanks partly to repatriating “Kassies” returning
each summer to renovate their crumbling ancestral houses as second homes. Visitors
tend either to love Kastellórizo and stay a week, or crave escape after a day; detractors
dismiss it as a human zoo maintained by the Greek government to placate nationalists,
while devotees celebrate an atmospheric, little-commercialized outpost of Hellenism.
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE
KASTELLÓRIZO
By air
Kastellórizo's airport, 1km above the harbour, is
served by regular Olympic Air flights from Rhodes (4-6
weekly). A minibus shuttles once between town and airstrip
at flight times (€2); excess passengers are accommodated in
the island's lone taxi, at €6 per passenger.
By ferry
Kastellórizo is connected to: Astypálea (1 weekly;
16hr); Kalymnós (2 weekly; 11hr 40min); Kos (2 weekly; 10hr);
Naxós (1 weekly; 20hr 30min); Níssyros (2 weekly; 8hr 30min);
Páros (1 weekly; 22hr); Pireás (2 weekly; 28hr); Rhodes (3
weekly; 2hr 20min-3hr 40min); Sými (2 weekly; 3hr 50min-
6hr 25min); Tílos (2 weekly; 7hr). Day-trips to Turkey leave
regularly from the port in summer, for around €20.
Travel
agents
Papoutsis Travel sells all sea and air tickets
(
T
22410 70630,
W
kastelorizo.gr).
Kastellórizo Town
The island's population is concentrated in
KASTELLÓRIZO
TOWN
on the north coast
- neatly arrayed around what's said to be the finest natural harbour between Beirut and
Fethiye on the Turkish coast - and its “suburb” of Mandhráki, just over the fire-blasted hill
and boasting a half-ruined Knights' castle. In summer, it's what Greeks call a
klouví
(bird
