Kastellorizo is the most eastern of the Greek islands. It is found in the point where Europe ends and Asia begins. The island long time ago had 15.000 residents. In 1920 the Italian forces kept it as a solitary place as it is also today. In the 1943 British commandos came to the island and they sent the population in Egypt in order to protect them from the German Nazis and their attacks.
Kastelorizo or Megisti, is the Aegean's easternmost island. It is a tiny but very beautiful island of the Dodecanese consisting of a circular port of about 250 inhabited houses. Even though the island has very few inhabitants, they are all very hospitable and wait on the port to welcome the tourists.
The island's only settlement is Megisti, otherwise known as Kastellorizo, on the northeast coast. The gracious two-storey neo-classical houses with their brightly painted doors and windows, wooden balconies and tile roofs on the waterfront as well as the majestic domes of the churches testify to the island's former prosperity.
On this island you will enjoy good local cuisine, the sea and a good warm climate away from the noise of "civilisation".
There is excellent swimming from the rocks near the port, in Faros, in Plakes and in Mandraki. Though there are no beaches as such on the island, you can take a little boat to the little islands of Ro and Strongili to swim and also to the particularly beautiful "Fokiali Blue Cave". Very impressive!
How to get there
You can get to Kastellorizo by plane and by boat.
There are no direct flights to Kastelorizo from Athens. Air connections are via Rhodos. There are 5 to 6 daily flights from Athens to Rhodos. Flight time from Rhodos to Kastelorizo is approximately 25 minutes.
