Boat Day Trips Spinalonga

Spinalonga Island boat trip - Crete, Greece Vacation time

In the eastern part of Crete you will find a small part of its tumultuous history, the island of Spinalonga, the most popular archaeological site, after the fabulous Minoan vestiges of Knossos.
- You can arrive on the island by boat / boat (on its own or with a guided hike)
- We chose the trip organized by Paralela 45( Travel agency), and our guide (an extraordinarily talented woman, she walked with us on the streets of the fortress and told us with great dedication the story of this beautiful and sad island)
- The entrance ticket for the fortress is 2 euro per person
- Spinalonga is visited today by over a thousand tourists each day, especially in the summer season.
- The people's life on Spinalonga island can be read in the book The Island written by the british writer Victoria Hislop

The boat trip and visiting Spinalonga Island

You can see a boat trip from Agios Nikolaos to Spinalonga island in Crete, Greece. Then followed the island's tour.
Spinalonga Island (Kalydon) is located in Elounda Bay in the northeast of the island of Crete. During the Venetian occupation, a fort was built here and then became a leper colony.

Boat Trip a round Spinalonga

When in May we were in Crete we stayed 6 days in Plaka opposite Spinalonga, we were on Spinalonga two times and one time we sailed around the island where we filmed the whole trip.
You can read more about Spinalonge and other points of interests from Crete on kretaforum.dk

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Ελούντα Elounda / Spinalonga Crete Greece

Elounda Fishing Village Oficial Video

Elounda is a small fishing village on the northern coast of the island of Crete, Greece.

Ηistory of Elounda
The Venetian cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli reports that Spinalonga was not always an island, but was once linked with the adjacent Peninsula Spinalonga. He mentions that in 1526, the Venetians cut down a portion of the peninsula and thus created the island. Because of its position the island was fortified from its earliest years in order to protect the entranceway of the port of Ancient Olous.

In 1578 the Venetians charged the engineer Genese Bressani to plan the island’s fortifications. He created blockhouses at the highest points of the northern and southern side of the island, as well as a fortification ring along the coast that closed out any hostile disembarkation. In 1579, the Provveditore Generale of Crete, Luca Michiel, put the foundation stone of the fortifications, built over the ruins of an acropolis. There are two inscriptions that cite this event, one on the transom of the main gate of the castle and the other on the base of the rampart at the north side of the castle. In 1584, the Venetians, realising that the coastal fortifications were easy to conquer by the enemies attacking from the nearby hills, decided to strengthen their defence by constructing new fortifications at the top of the hill. The Venetian fire would thus have bigger range, rendering Spinalonga an impregnable sea fortress, one of the most important in the Mediterranean basin.

Spinalonga, along with Gramvousa and Souda, remained in Venetian hands even after the rest of Crete fell to the Ottomans in the Cretan War (1645–1669) and until 1715, when they fell to the Ottomans during the last Ottoman – Venetian War. These three forts defended Venetian trade routes and were also useful bases in the event of a new Venetian-Turkish war for Crete.

In 1715 , the Ottoman Turks captured Spinalonga taking over the last remaining Venetian fortress and removing the last trace of Venetian military presence from the island of Crete.

The island was subsequently used as a leper colony from 1903 to 1957. It is notable for being one of the last active leper colonies in Europe. The last inhabitant, a priest, left the island in 1962. This was to maintain the religious tradition of the Greek Orthodox church, in which a buried person has to be commemorated at following intervals of 40 days; 6 months; 1 year; 3 years; and 5 years, after their death. Other leper colonies that have survived Spinalonga include Tichileşti in Eastern Romania, Fontilles in Spain and Talsi in Latvia. As of 2002, few lazarettos remain in Europe.

There were two entrances to Spinalonga, one being the lepers’ entrance, a tunnel known as «Dante’s Gate». This was so named because the patients did not know what was going to happen to them once they arrived. However, once on the island they received food, water, medical attention and social security payments. Previously, such amenities had been unavailable to Crete’s leprosy patients, as they mostly lived in the area’s caves, away from civilization.

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Visiting SPINALONGA ISLAND from Plaka - Road Trip Crete [Crete Vlog #4]

Can you visit Spinalonga ? What is the story of Spinalonga ? Where can you take the boat to Spinalonga ? This video will tell you all about it!

Welcome to this series about Crete - Greece, this is video number 4 of our 7 day road trip on this beautiful island.

We woke up in Sissi and drove towards Plaka, where we took a boat to the Island of Spinalonga.

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Historical sites of Crete - Spinalonga

The island of Spinalonga is located in the Gulf of Elounda in north-eastern Crete opposite of a place called Plaka...It started as a Vetetian fotress back in 1574 to protect the island from the Turkish invasion in order to protect the Elounda bay..In 1905 it started to be used as a leper sanatorium until 1957 after this the cure was found and people where aloud to go back home.

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Spinalonga, Elounda M/Y THENI by Stefanos Tours

Stefanos Tours, a professional travel agency based in Sisi on the island of Crete, is part of a well-established local family business.
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The island of Spinalonga (Greek: Σπιναλόγκα), officially known as Kalydon (Καλυδών), is located in the Gulf of Elounda in north-eastern Crete, inLasithi prefecture, next to the town of Elounda. The official Greek name of the island today is Kalydon. Originally, Spinalonga was not an island, it was part of the island of Crete. During Venetian occupation the island was carved out of the coast for defense purposes and a fort was built there. A popular name for the island since Venetian rule is Spinalonga. During Venetian rule, salt was harvested from salt pans around the island. The island has also been used as a leper colony. Spinalonga has appeared in novels, television series, and a short film.

Spinalonga today

Today, the unoccupied island is a popular tourist attraction in Crete. In addition to the abandoned leper colony and the fortress, Spinalonga is known for its small pebble beaches and shallow waters. The island can easily be accessed from Agios Nikolaos. Tourist boats depart on a daily basis. There is no accommodation on Spinalonga, meaning all tours last only a few hours.

The book The Island by Victoria Hislop is set in Spinalonga and shares the fictional story of a family’s ties to the leper colony.

The short story “Spinalonga” by John Ware, about a tourist group that visits the island, featured in the 13th Pan Book of Horror.

Spinalonga the island of lepers that became a tourist attraction

Some years ago Spinalonga was a cursed island due to the fact that it was the place where the lepers were sent to live and die. Today is a popular tourist attraction as hundreds of visitors travel every day to visit this cursed island.

Mirabello Bay at Elounda, Crete, Greece - Private Yacht Cruise

Traditional Caique Boat ride around Mirabello Bay, Crete. Blue Palace Resort's boat - sailing past Spinalonga Island, Elounda Village and the Resorts of Domes of Elounda and Blue Palace. Very nice experience on the lovely waters of the Aegean Sea

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Spinalonga Crete (former leper colony)

Boat ride and brief walk around the former leper colony of Spinalonga Crete

Spinalonga, Crete

Boat from Plaka to Spinalonga, top of Spinalonga, boat from Spinalonga to Plaka
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Elounda 2010 - Oxa, Skisma and Spinalonga panorama

Panorama of the view from Mount Oxa, over the harbour and village and out to Spinalonga island, the bay and peninsula

SPINALONGA August 2012

A day trip from Agios Nikolaos, Crete, to the island of Spinalonga, the leper island,
where lepers from Crete and the rest of Greece were quarantined until 1957.

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