Andros is located the Greek islands Cyclades the largest, in the Aegean sea of 30 kilometers southeast of the mainland gate by Rafina. The island was surveyed largely, by the international tourists however is a Lieblingswochenendengetaway for wealthy Athenians, many of, possesses whom country houses here. They do not find the wild taking part scene of Mykonos or of Santorini on this island however, if it is green lowering lush, to wasserfaellen and mountain springs, which are you -, after you came to the right place. The island is an two-hour ferry hop of Rafina, the main gate of the mainland in second place (the bus travel of one hour of north east Athens). Take hydrofoil, in order to cut your travel time around one half. There is also regular ferry and snaps boat connections to many of the neighbouring islands including Mykonos, Syros, Tinos and Paros. This is one of the most fruitful all islands Cycladic, which is marked generally by their little dry and unfruchtbaren landscapes. Andros is with mountain stream awash, those down toward to the coast stolpern. The plentiful water supply led to the treatment of the olives, figs, Zitrusfrucht and vines. The island is long a paradies hikers ' - the place, in that you ramble hours along the Gebirgsfootpaths can and stops at a Riversidetaverna for cheap Greek price of transportation, while you hear to the clay/tone of the nightingales without another tourist in the sight. Andros has 110 kilometers of the coastal line without less than 300 sandige beaches, which are unaffected most by tourism. Some can be only achieved by small boat or moped. The island has only one main recovery local range with Batsi, eight kilometers the south of the gate of Gavrio, in which the ferries and the fly dolphins arrive. Batsi is the place for preceding for, if her that whole usual routistic paraphernalia - watersports, nightlife, adjustment and eateries all in the full measure wish. City Andros, on which eastern side of the island is, a bezaubernder place on is enough, narrow peninsula - more pricey, than Batsi, because this is, where wealthy, dispatch, families possessing down for the night to bed goes. Its imposing neoclassical 19. Century mansions, as soon as the houses of the good-pursued sea-captains lend, the island capital an air of old kind elegance. The island offers museums to attendance, historical places of assembly to investigate around and to roam across a net of the highways and the Footpaths, over you by the Kieferwaelder can and the muzzle berry wood for finding the pretty domestic villages and mountain springs. Andros is the only island Cycladic with a source of the natural source water, which is filled up and exported in Greece. Snaking the dry steinwaende and the old dovecotes, the island more pepper, belong to its most differentiating characteristics. The durchdacht verzierten dovecotes by the Venetians, influence here into 13 was introduced. Century held. Further proof of venetianischen occupation can be seen into the ruins of the lock, established around 1220, which city-occupies the small island at the end of the peninsula Andros.
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