Skiathos Villages

The town of Skiathos is the capital town of the island where it is also found the port. The town receives a lot of tourists. It has been built at the beach, but it is also extended up to the low hills around. The first part of the town the visitor sees when entering the port is the small peninsula with the pines and Bourtzi, the old castle of the island.

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Megali Ammos (meaning ‘the large sand” in Greek) is an almost exclusively tourist resort, situated at a distance of 3 kilometers southwestern to the town of Skiathos.

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Ftelia is an exclusively tourist settlement, extended around the homonymous beach and situated at a distance of 4 kilometers southwesten to the town of Skiathos.

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Katsarou is a small tourist settlement very close (1 kilometer far away to the South) to the nice beach of Vasilias. The settlement is situated at the southern coast of the island, some 6 kilometers southwestern to the town of Skiathos on the way to Koukounaries.

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Achladies (meaning “pear trees” in Greek), is an important, rapidly developing tourist resort extended along the homonymous sandy beach. It is situated some 5,5 kilometers southwestern to the town of Skiathos. The settlement counts only a few permanent residents living almost exclusively on tourism.