Crete | Spinalonga Island

Crete | Spinalonga Island. Spinalonga is a Venitian era fortified island off the coast of northeast Crete, not far from Aghios Nikolaos and the high-class tourist part of the island. It has the enduring fascination that in later years as it was the site of one of Europe's last operating leper colonies finally closing in the middle of the last century.
Today you can take a boat trip to the now-deserted island and view the remains of the leper houses and other community buildings, and imagine what life must have been like there. The landscape is quite barren, lending to a desolate air to the place.
Spinalonga was the inspiration for a popular novel, "The Island," and a spinoff television series in Greece. That publicity has helped the Spinalonga boatmen to no end.
To get to Spinalonga, drive 15 kilometres north from Aghios Nikolaos to Plaka by the sea, where the Spinalonga boat tours originate. There is also frequent KTEL rural buses. From Heraklion it's a 50-kilometres drive or bus ride to Limnes, where you can turn left at the signs for Elounda and Spinalonga.
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