Kasos

Cyclop's island

• Top Attractions

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• Archaeological Sites

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• Museums

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• Monasteries

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• Caves

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• History

  Kasos, according to one version, got its name from the Phoenician word "ikas" which means foam. However, it is probably a pre-Greek word. Other ancient names of the island are Amphi, Astravi, Achni. As can be seen from the archaeological finds in the natural port of Helartos which date back to the 16th - 15th centuries. BC, there was a …

• Culture

  Kasos is famous for the festivals that take place on the island throughout the summer. The biggest festival that is organized is that of "Pera Panagia" on the fifteenth of August. Between the sounds of the traditional Aegean lyre and the lagout, the steps of the "sousta" and the "zervo" and the impromptu poetic conversations that characterize these traditional evenings, …

• Activities

  HIKING IN KASSOS Getting to know Mitata A nice route that you can take, passes the villages of Arvanitochori and Agia Marina and enters the mountains to the plateau of Argos and Troulles, where on the top of the hill stands the chapel of Agia Triada, invisible from the road. Mitata, the cottages where the shepherds make cheese, can be …

• Sea & Mountain

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• Photographs

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• Information

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