A Spetses honeymoon trades resort crowds for quiet elegance on a car-free island only a short hydrofoil ride from Athens. This My Greece Tours guide shows couples how to combine mansion-hotel stays, sunset walks, private coves and candlelit seafood dinners into a few unhurried romantic days. Spetses keeps its pine forest, stone archontika and horse … Read more
Diving and snorkelling on Spetses reward anyone drawn to clear, sheltered water and a rocky, indented coast. The car-free Saronic island is ringed by pine-clad shores where reefs, sea-grass meadows, and small coves shelve into water that stays calm and warm through the summer. This My Greece Tours guide explains where to snorkel straight off … Read more
Hiking on Spetses rewards walkers with fragrant pine forest, quiet dirt tracks and coastal paths that string together some of the calmest beaches in the Saronic Gulf. The island once carried the name Pityoussa, meaning pine-covered, and that green interior still shapes every route. My Greece Tours maps the walking here so you can plan … Read more
Spetses with kids works beautifully because the island is car-free, and families quickly discover that the biggest risk on the waterfront is a passing bicycle rather than a speeding vehicle. My Greece Tours treats Spetses as one of the gentlest Greek islands for young children, with horse-drawn carriages, shallow organised beaches and short boat trips … Read more
The Spetses Lighthouse, known to islanders as the Faros, is the island’s old lighthouse, a whitewashed tower standing on the point at the entrance to the Old Harbour of Spetses. One of the oldest lighthouses in Greece, it guides boats into the anchorage and draws visitors for photographs and sunset walks. This My Greece Tours … Read more
Agia Marina beach lies a short distance southeast of Spetses Town. The closest of the island’s fully organised beaches to the harbour and one of the liveliest spots for a daytime swim. This My Greece Tours guide explains where the bay is, what the sand and water are like, the sunbeds, beach bar and watersports … Read more
Kaiki Beach is the fashionable town beach of Spetses, an organised bay of imported sand and clear shallow water just west of the Dapia. Known locally as Scholes because it lies below the Anargyrios and Korgialenios School, it draws a young, sociable crowd to its sunbeds, beach bar, and watersports. This My Greece Tours guide … Read more
The history of Spetses runs from ancient Pityoussa, the pine-covered island, through an eighteenth-century shipbuilding boom to a leading role in the 1821 Greek War of Independence. This My Greece Tours guide traces how a small Saronic island near Porto Heli built a merchant fleet, raised the flag of revolution, and won fame at sea. … Read more
Agios Nikolaos Church is the historic main church of Spetses, standing on the slope above the Dapia and dedicated to Saint Nicholas, the patron of sailors. My Greece Tours has prepared this guide to its story. A former monastery on Spetses, it is where the islanders first raised the flag of the 1821 revolution, and … Read more
Weddings on Spetses pair Belle Epoque elegance with the intimacy of a small, car-free Saronic island, and My Greece Tours has assembled this guide for couples planning to marry there. Only hours from Athens by hydrofoil, Spetses offers landmark hotels, seafront terraces, historic mansions and quiet chapels for the ceremony, while its horse-drawn carriages and … Read more