"Leros island, Greece" Top 5 Page for this destination Leros Island by hhuisman2

Leros with its cozy bays is rather undiscovered and the island has an intimate feeling. The inhabitants are not really occupied with tourism, and some want to keep it a secret. Leros is an island with postcard villages and in my point of view maybe the friendliest people of all the island I have been on.

Art deco building in Lakki

Leros is an island with green hills and fertile valleys and beaches. Agia Marina is the capitol and is set on a hill. On the other side of the hill are the villages of Pandeli and Platanos, that are interconnected with the capitol. Three kilometers south of the capitol is the main harbour of Leros island. This harbour is well known as one of the largest and best natural harbours of the Mediteranean Sea.
The Italians have build many art deco structures on Leros and so the island feels more Italian that Greek on some places. Other parts are again typically Greek, so you will get a bit of both.

Beach on Leros

Leros island is not known for its beautiful long beaches. One of the longest beaches can be found at the village of Alinda and it is about 300 meters long. On the other side the lack of large beaches on the island has insured that Leros has not become a destination for mass tourism. Most of the beaches are small and unspoiled. Only in the west of the island in the Bay of Gourna there are some larger beaches. Leros is more an island for peace and quiet and for romance, than for beachbeds and parosols, or discotheques and commercialism. There is hardly any tourism like on the other islands.

• Pros:Quiet, friendly people, pretty villages, good fod
• In a nutshell:Leros, a peaceful pretty island in the Dodecanese, Greece