Skopelos: Patitiri port, Alonissos
Skopelos Town lies along a sheltered Aegean harbour on the island of Skopelos, with whitewashed houses climbing the wooded hillside toward the Kastro. As the island’s principal port, it is the everyday arrival point for ferries and a working waterfront for local boats. The town, also called Chora, is built in a dense weave of lanes, small squares and houses with tiled roofs; many of its churches are part of the traditional island townscape. Above the harbour, the Kastro marks the old fortified summit. Skopelos belongs to the Northern Sporades, an island group in the western Aegean. Local food culture is known for Skopelitiki tyropita, a spiral-shaped cheese pie traditionally fried in olive oil. The harbourfront ties these older quarters to the island’s contemporary transport and commerce.
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Skopelos straddles the slopes above its harbour on Skopelos Island’s northern Aegean coast, a position that has concentrated the island’s main port, shops and waterfront life beneath the old town. Whitewashed, red-tiled houses climb toward the Kastro, the site of a medieval fortress, while narrow lanes connect small squares and churches. Part of the Northern Sporades, the island is noted for its wooded terrain, contrasting with the drier Cycladic islands farther south. Skopelos also provided locations for the film Mamma Mia!, including the island’s Agios Ioannis Kastri chapel. Browse other webcams across the Northern Sporades and Thessaly and Central Greece to place this island setting in a wider geographic context.
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