Due to its proximity to Athens, Poros attracts
many Athenians during week-ends, throughout the
year and especially during summer time.
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Poros is a beautiful, fertile and verdant island,
full of pine trees and olive trees, picturesque
villages, fine beaches and interesting archaeological
monuments such as the beautiful Temple of Aphaia,
built in the 5th century BC, and considered as the
finest archaeological monument of the Saronic Gulf
and the Aegean.
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| Poros is
also the land of pistachios, producing them from
antiquity and offering a wide range of those excellent
nuts, served in all the imaginable ways. |
During Classical times, the island was a major power,
rivalling with Athens which, displeased of the
great
power of this little island, attacked it in 459
BC, forcing it to surrender its fleet.
Since then, Poros
completely lost its hegemony and, except from its
other brief moment of glory, when it became the
capital of the partially liberated Greece (from
1827 to 1829), the island did never recover from
the Athenian attack and stayed in the shadow of
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Poros is
also well-known thanks to the famous Greek writer,
Nikos Kanzantzakis, who was in love with the island
and stayed there to write the world-known Zorbas
the Greek.
The beauty of the landscape, the hospitality of
the inhabitant, the rich archaeological material
and the modern touristy facilities will please and
charm every one who sets its foot on the bright,
colourful little island of Poros.
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Poros
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