Order excursions online. Idra. Favorite Island of Greek Bohemia, Sophie Lauren and Leonardo Koen Island Hydra on the map of Greece

Island Hydra (Idra) - a small rocky island - he is the southernmost point of the globe, where I had to visit one of the most beautiful places Greece. Piraea is 37 sea miles, travel time on the ship - 3 hours.

The island of Hydra, lying between the Saronic and Argolidal bays, has an area of \u200b\u200b50 square meters. km, and the length of its coastline is 55 km. Hydra - mountainous island. SAMI high mountain - Eros (593 m), the population is less than 3,000 inhabitants. Unlike the other islands of the Argosaronic Gulf, Hydra in the greater part of the island, deprived of vegetation, and only in the southwest grows pine. Ancient settlementThe island detected on the island belongs to the Myckene era. Subsequently, the Hydra captured Hermonies, which then sold it to the self-making. Hydra continued to carry out an inconspicuous existence until the XVII century, when the island gradually acquired a powerful trading fleet, which in the future, during the Napoleonic wars, was monopolized by transportation throughout the Mediterranean Sea.

Another such an island city is difficult to find. Round port with yachts, surrounded by rocky mountains, which are nearly close to each other two- and three-storey houses from the embankment and almost to the most mountain peaks.

Starting from the Middle Ages, the hydra inhabited fishermen and sailors, which each generation became more professional navigators and successful merchants, thanks to the beginning of the 19th century, the Hydra began to call "Little England" - so great for such a small island was the number of rich shipowners. The population of the island then amounted to about 25,000 people, and the fleet consisted of about 120 modern well-equipped vessels, which allowed the maritime trade, without fear of ships Ottoman Empire and Mediterranean pirates. Then rich mansions, 6 monasteries and more than 300 churches, which constitute the modern picture of the island were built.

I ran with the camera on the deck, trying to capture the types of rapidly approaching the island:

These houses with tiled roofs of traditional architecture produce unforgettable impression From the first minute staying on the island.

Near the port of Hydra are massive old rich captains of 1821 (buildings of Genoese and Venetian architects) - Kunturiotic, Tobazis (in which the department of the faculty is fine arts), Wolgaris, Miaulis, Kraizis and Tsamados (where the School of the Fleet Fleet is located).

It must be said that at the beginning of the national liberation war against the Turks of 1821, the Population of Hydra was about 30,000 people (most people who arrived here in search of asylum), and the number of ships reached 150. Then there were rich shipowners - brothers Kunturiotes, Miaulis, Sachturis , Tobazis and others who have equipped at their own expense ships, spending entire conditions to assist the uprising. The Fleet Hydra in assistance with the fleets of the Islands Spets and Psara inflicted a very significant damage to the Turkish fleet. The exploits and heroism of these sailors were known to all of Europe. Sailors-islanders, in addition to ships, used the so-called "brands" ("arsonists") - small boats loaded with explosives, which walked at night to the Turkish ships and exploded them. The victories of the inhabitants of Hydra and their associates on the sea became the main factor in the success of the struggle of the Greek people.

Some of these houses are open to visit, which provides the opportunity to get acquainted with the internal interior - with marble floors, wooden ceilings and antique furniture. The exit from the port is old cannons who defended the city.

At home, these cubic shapes with one terrace alone, sometimes with one yard. Flowers are growing in the courtyards that are not easy to see outside, as the stone walls are high. The color of houses is usually gray. Everywhere dominates the severity of forms and lines. However, the white frame around the window is enough to eliminate monotony and give houses a friendly look.

The first among the admirers of Hydra - people of art, especially artists. Therefore, the Faculty of Faculty of Arts of the Athenian Polytechnic Institute and opened its branch here.

Anchor thrown in the port of Hydra:

As already mentioned, the residents of Hydra have long been engaged in navigating and shipbuilding, they contributed a significant contribution to the equipment of the Greek fleet during the national liberation war against the Turks. Once again on the fort with guns:

Currently, the main occupation of the population of the island is tourism, small trade and mining of sea sponges. On these horses, lined up on the embankment, it was possible to ride:

Garbage trucks are the only motorized transport on this shred sushi. All other motor products are outlawed out of law - Cars, motorcycles and even bicycles! therefore local residents And tourists beyond their two use everything possible - from "Water Taxi" to donkeys. The owner of this vehicle, with the Cocan who mined us - a typical Greek, tanned, thin, unshaven:

Central part of the town, so-called. Chora, picturesque and color:

And the merchants on the hydraulic, it seems to speak in all languages, and, nodding heads that their prices outside "all lies" are in a hurry to take off their benches.

In the midst of the embankment, near the sea is the monastery of the Assumption of the Virgin, where is currently located cathedral Hydra.

In the yard stands the statue of the Hero Hero - Miaulis.

The second bust, most likely, St. Macarium Notaras, Metropolitan Corinthian, Philocalism, the Philocalism, who lived here for a while:

A few more pictures of the monastery courtyard:

In the 20th century, Hydra became the first Greek island open to foreign tourists, on a hydraulician in 1956, John Neglessko took off his famous film "Boy on Dolphin" with Sophie Lauren and Alan Ladend, and in the 1960s Jules Dassin - Fedra's film with Anthony Perkins, Ralph Wallone and Melina Mercury. Among the fans of the island are: Bridget Bardo, Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Quinn, Joan Collins, Aristotle Obstess, Maria Callas, Jackie Kennedy-Oressis, Fashioner Valentino. For a long time, the winner of the Leonard Cohen Charming Tomvert has lived.

On this, our islands cruise was completed and on the way back we admired the bizarre game of clouds and sunset sun:

Waves poured out about the dawn
On the bright sandy and empty,
And thirty knights of beautiful
Cleared out of the waters,
And with them the uncle of their sea ...
- Looks like, right?

Hydra (ύδρα) - the southernmost island of the Saronic bay, with an area of \u200b\u200b50 square kilometers and rocky coastline, 56 km long. This is one of the most developed tourist islands.

Hydra is famous for its cosmopolitan atmosphere, in the 60s and 70s the island was beloved summer resort Athenian aristocracy and many Greek magnates.

Climate Hydra Dry Mediterranean, with long summer and soft winter. Small rains take place from November to the end of March. Dry climate Hydra, is one of the key factors for a large tourist flow.

The only city on the island, the city of Hydra with picturesque alleys and mansions, built by the amphitheater around the harbor. Hydra retains its traditional architecture And today: impressive mansions with tiled roofs and small inner courtyards, decorated with a peculiar decor, are surrounded by narrow powerful streets.

On the rest of the island there are only small settlements: Vlikhos in the West, Bishopi - in the south-west and in the eastern side of the island - Mandraki. There are many monasteries, such as Saint Euphraxia, Ilya Prophet, Saint Matrona, St. Nicholas, Holy Trinity and the birth of the Virgin Mary.

The tourist life of the island is mainly concentrated in the city of Hydra. There is a well developed nightlife, a lot of cafes, restaurants, hotels. The feature of the hydra is that any types of transport are prohibited here. The only permitted "transport" is donkeys.

The island has rich marine storywhich began in Byzantine times and reached his peak in the 17th and 18th centuries, when the residents of Hydra created big Park Commercial ships in the Mediterranean Sea. During the Greek Revolution (1821), together with the islands of Psara and Specs, served as one of the main optotes of the Greek fleet.

How to get to the island of Hydra:

The distance from the hydra to the port of Piraea is about 36 miles, which makes it possible to relatively quickly reach the island from Athens. Hydra is also connected by ferries with nearby cities Peloponnese, such as Porto Heli, Nafplion and Erioni.

Daily from the port of Piraeas are departed ferries (E8 and E9 moorings), travel time is 3 to 3.5 hours.

At the "Dolphin" travel time from the port of Piraeus to Hydra - 1 hour 15 minutes.

By car you can get to Ermoni, you can leave a car and from there on a boat or water taxi to swim to the hydra.

Information by phone:

Tourist Police: +30 22982 53360

Port about. Hydra: +30 22890 52279

Water taxi about. Hydra: +30 2298053690

Port of Piraeus: +30 210 4226000, 4511310 - 7; +30 2104199000.

To the island of Idra (in the ancient era - hydra), as a protected monument of nationwide importance, where wheels are prohibited and modern architectureWhat is the island in a number of the most duplicating and refreshing corners of the country. Fashion on the IDRA began in the 1950s, when the film "The boy on the dolphine" came to the movie screen, in which not only Sophia Lauren (she starred in 1957), but also the Greek painter Nikos Hadzikryakos-Gickas and Canadian singer Leonard Cohen.

Since then, the island predictably turned into one of the most beloved vacationers of Greece resorts, although good beaches It is very small on it. In the city itself, life is boiling from Easter to October, although the crowd of passengers from the liners arriving during the cruises under the slogan "three islands in one day" is no longer so noticeable: now the ider comes every day no more than one or two cruise ships come. On weekends, however, the island is overcrowded, and the embankment turns into one solid cafe and in the souvenir shop. However, leave this holiday of life is simple - the island is still not small: you can go on a long walk or a maritime excursion.

The city and port of Idra with the tiers of impressive mansions made of gray stone and white-old, covered with the red tiles of houses more compromised, climbing the mountain above the harbor of the perfectly horseshoe form, is a very impressive spectacle. Those mansions that on the embankment were built mainly in the XVIII century, when considerable wealth were accumulated here, and the merchant fleet consisted of up to 160 vessels who came with their goods to America itself, and - during Napoleonic wars - broken English blockades: despite All efforts, did not remain without grain - thanks to the Greek Deltas with the Idra.

Then large states were laid, especially since the relationship with the bright port was found as it should not be better: the rules, but I didn't pay Idra to him, only supplied sailors in the Navy Sultan. Naturally, the Greeks came to the island with the mainland, not spoiled by such liberty, and in the 1820s there lived almost 20 thousand people in the city - the figure is unimaginable: now and three thousand does not appear, but such a close. In the war for independence, the merchant Idra was given to the rebels of many of their ships, and the captains of these vessels became combat fleets of the new country.

• Arrival and accommodation in the city of Idra

The city is quite compact, but it is worth off the embankment, like streets and alley become narrow and steep, forming a real labyrinth. Best map The cities released "Saitis Tours", near the "Alpha Bank" - this agency sells and tickets to catamarans "EUROSEAS". Tickets for ships on underwater wings and ordinary ferries (here they are not loaded with cars) "Hellenic seaways" are sold on the East Quay, opposite the pier from which they go - up the stairs and to the right. Banks (with ATMs) - also on the waterfront, and you will find the mail in the covered market in the area almost away from the embankment.

You can get access to the Internet in the store next to the harbor, immediately for Alpha Bank, which is located on the waterfront. Since the requirement of the preservation of the past of the past applies to the entire city, the construction of new housing for visitors is prohibited, private balconies are rare (although air conditioners are almost ubiquitous), and hotels are extremely small, and all of them in renovated buildings - prices are relevant. Addresses (with the names of the streets and rooms of houses) on the idra, not in the go, signs and pointers are also non-specifics, so you have to ask for passersby. If no other thing is notified in the list, then guests are accepted all year round, the prices are appointed in the midst of the season, and on weekends during the rest of the year.

1). Pension Alkionides. - Quiet, although located in the center of the boarding room with a pleasant courtyard and helpful staff, all rooms have televisions, refrigerators and coffee makers. Location: 120 meters up the street in the harbor, on the next street, parallel to the one on which "Alpha Bank" is located (or get to amaryllis, go down and turn right);

2). Hotel amaryllis - The faceless building of the 1960s, the builders of which mysteriously went around the prohibitions on such an architecture, but for habitat, this small hotel is quite suitable, and there are even small balconies. Location: 100 meters from the sea, from the pier of ships on underwater wings, after the development of the right;

3). Hotel Bratsera. - perhaps best Hotel On the island - 4 stars (class A), located in the former sea sponge factory extensive premises for all guests (including bar, restaurant, conference room and medium-sized pool), at the same time serving the museum of the seaside sponges (many photographs and various crafts). Rooms of five categories, but even in those belong to the two lower categories, the floors of the stone tiles and decent shower. Open from mid-March to October. Location: 150 meters from the pier of ships on underwater wings, the hotel Amaryllis;

4). Pension Kirki. - The non-plane travel leads to a beautiful old house with simple island-style rooms and a small garden in the courtyard. Location: 60 meters from the harbor, near the market;

5). Hotel Miranda. - The mansion of the 1810s turned into a hotel, one of the most prosperous on the island with wooden floors and refrigerators. Rooms are not the same; Best - No. 2 and 3: painted ceilings with caissons and large terraces with sea views. Abundant breakfasts are served in a shady courtyard - another dignity in the winter has a bar on the lower floor. Location: 200 meters away from the sea at the main street, departing from the middle of the embankment;

6). Institution Nikos Botsis - Clean, simple, white numbers in a four-story building, most of them - balconies and, therefore, street noise. Of the attic studios on four, excellent views are open. Location: about 100 meters away from the sea on the main street, departing from the middle of the embankment;

7). Hotel ORLOFF. - Another hotel in a renovated mansion: blue curtains and carpets, high ceilings, numbers are unequal. The building was built quite high, so the sea is partly visible, and excellent breakfasts are served in a fenced inner courtyard. Location: At the largest square, I apologize from the shore, near the pharmacy;

8). Hotel Pityoussa. - In the hotel, called in honor of the three giganic pines ("PITIS") growing in front of the facade, only five rooms in the basement, with the most entertaining pleasures, including DVD players and design bathrooms. The quietest - number 5, leaving the garden, although in the rest you will not suffer from noise too. If there are no places, contact belonging to the same owners, but the modest neighboring theodoros is near, up the stairs. Location: On the main street going outside the city in the southeast, ask Stavento store.

• Attractions of the city of Idra

Mansions (Archonda) of the XVIII century, built for merchant families by architects from Venice and Genoa, are undoubtedly remaining the best monuments of urban antiquity. At many entrance hangs the sign: "Ikia ..." (that is, "the dwelling of such something ...") - and the surname of the owners. Interesting the inner decoration of the mansion of Vulgaris on the Western Embankment, behind him, on a hill, in the mansion of tombazis, art historians and students of art universities live on weekends.

In the western end of the town, a luxurious Kondultiusi mansion (Tuesday-Sunday 10: 00-17: 00; 4 €) with decisions of paintings and a collection of painting works: a rich shipowner Georg Konduredius, who participated in the war, lived in the war For independence, and his great-grandchildren Pavlos Kundurotis in the 1920s was president, then (for a while) republican. On the Eastern Quay, the mansions of Kraizis, Spieliopoulos and Tsamadosov are noticeable - now the State School of the Fleet Fleet is now, but you will be allowed there in the break between lectures.

The historical and archival museum operates on the same East Quay (Sunday 9: 30-17: 00; 4 €), in which costumes and engravings of various eras are exhibited, as well as nasal shapes of ships and personal weapons, cold and firearms, times of war For independence. On idra, they say, not less than 365 churches - many Greek islands can boast with such figures, but the claims of the iders are quite substantiated. The most important church - Kimisis Tis Teotoku, in the monastery courtyard near the port, nearby - noticeable Nursing the clock tower and the Church Museum (Tuesday-Sunday 10: 00-17: 00).

• Food, Drinks and Nightlife in the city of Idra

The cafe on the embankment is convenient for looking at passersby, but for everything you have to pay - if you take 4 € for a cup of coffee, do not be surprised, but there are few full restaurants in the harbor. If desired, it should be better to eat (or drink) to go away from the sea or for the causta. If you want to take something with you on the beach, there is an excellent bakery, in which there is Tipittes and pies, turn into the western end of the harbor near the Pirate bar. In the summer there is an open cinema on a narrow street leading to the Alkionide Hotel.

1). Bar Amalour. - A pretty calm bar with a pins musical selection and a crowd of 30-40 guests, there are special events or thematic evenings. Location: 150 meters from the sea, in a straight line of ships on underwater wings;

2). Tavern Barba Dhimas. - Little tavern with good prices and worthy Mezedes, there is a fish, and even snails in a pot. Location: on the same street as a summer cinema, about 125 meters away from the sea;

3). Tavern Gitoniko. (Manolis and Christina's) - A very friendly tavern with magnificent Mayerft at good prices for lunch - True, it ends early - and dishes from the grill (including juicy fish) in the evenings. You can sit on the spacious rooftop terrace or in the hall, depending on the time of year. Location: Load from the sea, near the Church of St. Constantinos;

4). Bar Hydronetta. - Classic bar, from where the sunsets are watching, where music is played in the early clock. Places a little, which creates an extraordinary relaxing environment. Location: Turn over the gun on the west side of the cape;

5). Institution Iliovasilema. (Sunset) - If you need to note the end of the leave or want a date to go in a particularly romantic setting, then you are here: the kitchen is quite European and expensive, with wine (in bottles), about 30 € per person. Location: Behind the guns, on the West Cape;

6). Picks to Koutouki Tis Agoras - the institution looks second-time, but here low prices Only because it is a tight of the market traders, but it can please: the range of treats from pasteur mas (dried meat, basturma) to octopus. The situation is best at the very beginning of the evening. Location: behind the covered market;

7). Paradhosiako takeoffs - The dishes in this take the usual, but the institution is filled with the people, so the service often leaves much to be desired. Location: 80 meters from the sea upwards, departing from the pier of ships on underwater wings;

8). Pirate Cafe Bar - Cafe Day and a very lively bar in the evenings, a lot of young people, Western music. Location: on the corner of the embankment at the hour tower;

9). Institution Annita's - Do not confuse a strange view of the menu and the possible imposition of something: food here - Mayeries and meals with grill - excellent, and prices are reasonable (otherwise there would be so many local here). Good and spilled pink wine, and the tables are placed in the hall, and on a powerful street. Location: 70 meters deep in the street leading to the Miranda Hotel;

10). Zefyros tavern - one of several good options On this street with a simple characteristic of a tavern of food, there are tables in the covert courtyard. Location: Only 30 meters from the harbor, on the street leading to the Mirande Hotel.

Beaches in the vicinity of the city of Idra

On the island there is only one distinguished road that leads to the east of the harbor on Mandraki Beach, which is a few kilometers away. On the way, go hot and there is no shadow, so most people prefer to get there by the sea, boats are constantly sent to different beaches And back, the price is from 1.50 € per person at one end on Mandraki up to 12 € per person there and back to the bispy. You can take a separate water taxi - good price For a group of about 12 € for a boat to Vlikhos, for example, and you can even hire mules for land travel.

Only sand beach Near the city - in Mandraki, 1.5 kilometers east of the harbor in a concrete road. The Miramare Hotel, with the Bungalow in the Garden, is minimized over the shore. The hotel's bar-restaurant occupies an impressive shipyard, which once belonged to the hero of war for the independence of Admiral Muowulis. On weekdays (Monday-Thursday) the best rooms drops to categories, and in addition, there are conditions for water sports - Everyone will be allowed between the beach and the city can often be blown up the boats. A few steps to the West, near the cove with pebble shores, destroyed by holidaymakers, is one of the best rural taverns on the island, Mandraki 1800, it is also called Tou Lazarou (Easter-October): the kitchen is like a dusty, but prices are slightly higher.

The powerful trail, the envelope of the Western Cape Harbor, then goes along the shore to the Kamini - about 20 minutes on foot. There is a beach, a few good taverns and rooms in the village. At the very entrance in Kamini, the right hand will be a small guesthouse Antonia, and through the road - another guesthouse, the hostess of which Elnya Petrolek also offers apartments. And about the fact that you got to the fishing pier of Kamini, you will tell you the type of Taverna Tis Kondylenias tavern, famous for your gifts of the sea: Trappsalo (huge squid) from the grill - something outstanding, and admire the sunsets here very nice.

From the pier 50 meters up the dried and paved river bed there is one more, not so expensive tavern - Christina's, the food is a little more modest, the short menu changes every day, but it is certainly some kind of fish, but there is also a view of the sea here too. After half an hour, walking out of Kamini, you, by passing the covers in Castello, will arrive in Vlikhos - the village with the rebuilt bridge of the XIX century and pebble beach: It is nice to swim under the protection of the coastal island. In the midst of the season, a tavern and a couple of cafes-bars were opened - but with drinking, they, perhaps, much better than with the kitchen, and the rooms are given only antigone.

After Vlikhos, the walk becomes more difficult, the road rises above the bay of the MOLO, and the seductive beach is visible, but it is difficult to get to it. After that, the road turns deep into the island. At the eastern end there are beautiful coves, Buissti and Ayos Nikolaos, to which it is better to get by the sea. Bitti Beach with white pebbles is surrounded by pines, which create a shadow; Ayos Nikolaos is larger and more sandy, but here less shadow and less often go boats. The road passes above the cape between these bays, and in them in the season there are bars in which there are snacks, and you can rent beach equipment and kayaks.

What else is on the island of Idra

No motorized means of movement on the ider are not allowed, with the exception of the few trucks carrying provisions and trash, and road equipment, so that the highway is only one (from the port of B), but the island is mountainous, so it remains to be shifted in the outback or on Which hoofed - riding or in cart. Accordingly, few of the visits risks to leave the city limits, although quite a short walk to see a completely different island: rural dwellings, terraced fields with perficing breads (grain goes on food donks), monasteries in the mountains and pine forests, quite reconnected after devastating forest Fires 1985.

Moving along the streets to the mountain of deep into the island, you will find a winding path, which in about an hour will lead you upstairs to the monastery Profitis Ilias or (slightly lower) to the only actual and open agricultural monastery on the IDRA - Saint Euptraction. The first insidual leads, probably the longest flight path in Greece (alternative to him - a zigzag trail), the monastery from 12:00 to 16:00 is closed, but you can restore the forces after a long lift, having received water and bows (sweets) - their Hospitably leave the reel to the left of the gates.

The trail continues, leaving the monastery to the left, to the saddle with whom the South Beach is visible and where you can directly (there are no roads) for twenty minutes you can climb the top of Mount Eros - this is the highest (590 meters) sightseeing point on all Islands of Saronyikos and Argolyakos. If you do not decide to leave the path, once laid out by Caldery, then descend to the backyards of the island with scattered houses and locked churches near the sea from the climate, and then move back to the mountain, as the trail, passing the chapel of Ayos Petros and a few The pleasant glaze of the sections of the coast, saves into a bulldozer, which will lead you (after 1 hour 15 minutes from Profitis Ios) to the monastery Ayos Nikolaos.

True, more often the monastery is getting directly from the city along well-waged (multi-colored paint stripes) and a very noticeable trail that connects the abode (both closed) Saint Matrona) and the Holy Trinity with the saddle, on which Ios Nikolaos stands, and next door to him - also the settlement of the same name. Further, the trail descends to the loaf of limonization (1 hour 15 minutes from the city) - the best and most picturesque fill on south Bank, with a pebble beach and pines on the mountain slopes over the sea, amenities, however, no, and " water buses"Do not get here. The most stubborn pedestrians will continue to east of Ayos Nikolaos to the Church of Panayia Survas, the East Territory of the Island (2 hours one way from the city).

Southeast Vlikhos is a wide dirt road for donkeys and a teleg, passing a ship repairing dock, rises to the episcopes of the episcopes, where Olives and grapes cultivate and somewhere at home (there are no amenities for tourists), and then passes over the Bay of Molos. The trails, descending from the plateau episkopy to the north-western tip of the island, densely threw and is unlikely to try to go through them without a local conductor. In the idyllic bischi coves (Ayos-Eoros) and Ayos-Nikolaos on both sides of the cape usually fall by the sea.

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Idra was the last island of our 10-day sailing tour in the Aegean Sea.
And we must say that the most delicious thing we are not in vain left at the end.
Idra is an incredibly colorful island, not at all similar to other visited in this journey, spiritual and completely devoid of cars ...
No one is in a hurry anywhere, there is always a forest of yacht mast in a small cozy Marina, here one of their most delicious ingredients in the world.
Here they filmed the famous movie "Boy on Dolphin" with Sophie Loren in the lead role and here they love to be many celebrities ...

2. Idra is located not far from eastern coast Peloponess Peninsula and enters the Saronic Islands group.
Relative proximity to the large port of Piraeus made this island one of the favorite holiday destinations for the inhabitants of Athens.
In the peak of the season, the constant population, which is approximately 3,000 people is simply lost among numerous tourists.

3. In the ancient times, Idra was a lumpy island, Herodotus mentions it only a glimpse, and the first major settlement is dated only by the Mycenaean era.
But everything changed in the XVI century. At this time, Idra became a refuge for those who tried to hide from constant clashes between the Venice Republic and the Ottoman Empire. Basically it was refugees from the territory of modern Albania.
In the middle of the XVIII century, the inhabitants of the island began to build ships and engaged in maritime trade. At the same time not to be broaded and piracy.
They walked to Egypt and the Black Sea, and during the times of Napoleonic wars, they were engaged in the goods in England, not looking at the ban, stipulated by the law on the continental blockade.

4. Since the island paid the taxes in a timely manner, the Ottoman Empire practically did not pay attention to him and the XIX Idra gained power and power. The vast majority of majestic mansions on the island are based on the money of local merchants. In the zenith of the power of the iders in 1821, the population of the island was 28 thousand inhabitants (now about 3 thousand). During the war of the independence of Greece, the island provided 150 ships to participate in hostilities.
Moreover, it is this island that gave Greece outstanding military leaders - Admiral Andreas Miaulis and commander of Greek Fleet George Kanduriotic.

5. After the liberation of the country, marine and shopping centers began to move gradually in Hermupolis, Syros Island, and then in Piraeus. As the steamers and steel shipbuilding are introduced on the fleet, Idra comes to the beginning of the 20th century.
At the same time, the island gave Greece several famous artists and inspired to the work of artists with world names such as Picasso, Pablo and Shagal, Mark Zakharovich. Since 1936, a branch of the Athens School of Fine Arts has functions.
Today, Idra is an island for tourists, and in her little marina, even to the no-no-no is quite difficult to find a free place for the mooring of the yacht

6. Main Port. Islands - the city with the same name of Idra.
This is not an ordinary port. Here we always feel clear how this place is connected with the past due to the lifting amphitheater from the cafes and mansions that creates the atmosphere of the performance, the main participant of which is the island itself.

7. History and all the existence of the island are inextricably linked with Athens. Now this is a resting place for representatives of the aristocracy and bohemian of the Greek capital, who are tired of the rhythms of the life of the metropolis and seek to change the best way to change the everyday structure, enjoy the virgin beauty of the island, to warm up in hiking - and all this in an hour of traveling from the port of Piraeus. Therefore, this kind of "Island of the capital" attracts a lot of famous people from Greece and from around the world, among the fans of the island mean: Bridget Bardo, Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Quinn, Joan Collins, Aria Oressis, Maria Kalas, Jackie Kennedy-Once, Fashioner Valentino . For a long time, the winner of the Leonard Cohen Charming Tomvert has lived. The island of representatives of creative professions enjoys great love, during the semi-annual season on the island there are constantly various creative exhibitions and meetings.

8. The tourist fame of the island contributed to the film "Boy on Dolphin", shot on the island in 1957 with Sophie Loren.
In 2006, even the sculpture dedicated to the film was even installed here.

9. One important feature of the iders is that this is the only is the island in Greece, which is completely prohibited by the use of motor vehicle - From the car to the smallest scooter. There are even bicycles here.

10. As a transport and means of movement on the island exclusively, motorboats, mules and donkeys (I will tell about this in a separate post)

11. The architecture of the island is very organic and pursuant to the Mediterranean flavor and the spirit of history

12. From the harbor in different directions on the hills, narrow streets with a huge number of cafes and taverns are sprawling. Tables are often standing right on the pavement, attracting tourists

13. On narrow streets are stirred all - different era, shops, cafes, people, live plants in the tubs and pots.

14. Never know where that or another narrowing street

15. Geometry Idra

16. Perekrestok

17. Residential buildings

18. Dark Lane ...

19. .... at the end of which suddenly find themselves on top of another hill with beautiful view On the roof of the city

20. And again geometry

21. Local residents ..

22 ... very good-natured and friend

23. Trade is carried out directly on narrow streets. Cafe-shop-shop-vegetable rows-residential house ..

24. Economic store. Immediately you can see which goods are most in demand on the island.
Try, buy anchor for boats in Moscow or Kiev)

25. Construction shop

26. And again vegetable rows

27. Vegetables here sells the most. After souvenirs

28. And early in the morning, fishermen are sold right from their boats. Fresh catch.

29. The tile of houses on the idra is not like the one that applies with us

30. Lemon. Female...

31. Cactus. Men's individual

32. Still life with panties and baskets

33. Lanterns and pillows

34. Cafe right at the pier. Woke up on the yacht, made two steps, and now you are already drinking incredibly delicious cappuccino

35. Cafes and Town Hall

36. If that, here everything is completely inexpensive ....

37. Early in the morning of May 9, we left the yacht parking of the island of the Idra, heading into our last transition - to the port of Piraeus ...

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