{"id":5527,"date":"2020-04-27T14:49:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T18:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agapegreekradio.com\/?p=5527"},"modified":"2020-04-27T14:49:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T18:49:08","slug":"you-found-paradise-in-skopelos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agapegreekradio.com\/2020\/04\/27\/you-found-paradise-in-skopelos\/","title":{"rendered":"You found paradise\u2026 in Skopelos!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Have you ever visited Greece? And by Greece, I do not mean Mykonos or Santorini that many people want to visit because of their cosmopolitan atmosphere, their blue and white houses, and their crowded beaches.<\/p>\n
Greece has over 6.000 islands out of which only 277 are inhabited. I would love to start writing about Greece\u2019s beauties, but I will focus only on one island, my paradise, Skopelos.\u00a0\u00a0 Skopelos, in my eyes, is a beautiful which raised me and \u00a0filled my heart with so many amazing memories.<\/p>\n
But where exactly is this paradise?<\/p>\n
Skopelos, is in the western Aegean Sea and compromises the Northern Sporades island group. It is part of Thessaly Region and it has 4.960 inhabitants. From a geographical perspective, Skopelos island has two mountains, Delphi and Palouki. Also, Skopelos, an area of 96 square kilometres, is bigger than Mykonos and Santorini.<\/p>\n
As every part of Greece has its own history, let me give you some historic \u00a0and mythological background about this amazing paradise.<\/p>\n
Legend says that Staphelos, son of the god Dionysos and the Cretan princess Ariadne, was the founder of \u00a0Skopelos. During the Bronze Age, the Cretans colonized Skopelos \u00a0which was known as Peparethos and not Skopelos.<\/p>\n
It is widely claimed that the island was famous for its wine, because the God Dionysos, the Staphelos\u2019s father, was a God who adored wine.<\/p>\n
References to Peparithos or Skopelos, can be found in tragedians plays such as in a play of Sophocles. In Sophocles\u2019s play, Philocretes, the main character is a wine merchant lost on his way to Peparethos, which is \u201crich in grapes and wine\u201d. Even from this reference, it can be seen how ancient Greek well known individuals adored this island!!<\/p>\n
Nowadays, Skopelos is well known for its olives, therefore and olive oil, its traditional delicious cheese pie, for the high quality of honey, and for the delicious prunes.<\/p>\n