An Aegina cooking class is a private lesson in a local kitchen on the island of Aegina, where you prepare Greek pies, meat and bread in a wood-fired oven and then eat what you cooked. More trips from Athens and across the islands are listed on the Greece Tours homepage. This page covers the Aegina … Read more
An Aegina wine tasting is a private tasting of Greek wines with cheese and meze, hosted in Perdika, a fishing village of the island. Our Greece Tours homepage lists the other trips we run across the country. This page lists the Aegina wine tasting you can book, the Greek wines and grapes behind a first … Read more
An Aegina e-bike tour climbs from the coast to the Temple of Aphaia, rolls past pistachio orchards and links the island’s monasteries, villages and beaches. More guided rides around Greece are listed on Greece Tours. Read on for the bookable rides, the route, the sights, the bikes, ferries, seasons, kit and food. What is an … Read more
An Aegina food tour tastes the island’s PDO pistachios, local cheese and harbour treats a short ferry ride from Athens. Food walks and tastings elsewhere in the country sit on Greece Tours. This page covers the foods, the guided tasting walk, the orchard tour, town stops, day trips, drinks, the season and planning. What is … Read more
An Aegina pottery class is a hands-on ceramics lesson with a local potter on Aegina, the island near Athens known for its pottery since ancient times. Guests shape clay by hand, try the wheel and colour their own piece. Tours across the rest of the country are listed on Greece Tours. The sections below cover … Read more
An Aegina olive oil tour is a guided visit to the old olive groves of Aegina. The island lies in the Saronic Gulf, a short ferry ride from Athens. Guests walk among ancient trees and taste local oil. Tours across the rest of the country are listed on Greece Tours. The sections below cover the … Read more
An Agistri boat trip is a day cruise or a private boat outing to Agistri, the small pine-covered island beside Aegina in the Saronic Gulf, sold from Athens with stops at Moni or Metopi and Aegina, or as a tour around the island itself. Tours across the rest of the country are listed on Greece … Read more
Aegina port transfers wait for the boats from Piraeus at the harbour of Aegina Town and at the smaller ports of Souvala and Agia Marina, and drive passengers in a private car, minivan or taxi to a hotel anywhere on the island, from the east coast resorts to the fishing village of Perdika. Private rides … Read more
An Aegina yacht charter is the hire of a catamaran, motor yacht or sailing yacht from Aegina, taken as a crewed private charter, a shared cruise or a self-skippered bareboat charter, for a day cruise or a week in the Saronic Gulf. The base is the Aegina Town harbour, on the pistachio island closest to … Read more
Vathy is one of the oldest and largest villages on Aegina, set on the island’s north coast just beyond the resort of Souvala, at the foot of a hill. A traditional community with roots stretching back to ancient times, it was long a place of vineyards and olive groves, though today its people are increasingly … Read more
Kypseli is the second-largest village on Aegina, a traditional inland community just kilometres east of Aegina Town with a rich history and strong local character. Once home to prosperous sponge divers, whose wealth built the handsome neoclassical mansions that still line its streets, it sits amid fertile countryside famous for its pistachio groves. At its … Read more
For such a small island, Aegina has a rich collection of museums that reflect its long and important history. The Archaeological Museum, at the ancient Kolona site by the harbour, is one of the oldest in Greece and traces the island’s story from prehistoric times, while the Historical and Folklore Museum, in a fine neoclassical … Read more