We've collected here some of our holiday wishes with pictures on Facebook over the years. Warm wishes from Skopelos to all our friends around the world. May your dreams come true in 2024! * 24 December 2023 Dear friends, we are sending you these twinkling harbour lights along with our best wishes for a Merry Christmas. * Happy New Year 2019 ! * Happy New Year 2018 everybody...! And here's to many amazing trips to Skopelos Island of Greece! today's photo: First ferry of the year entering harbour. * December 24, 2018 Merry Christmas from the quiescent Skopelos town...!!! * December 24, 2016 Best wishes to everyone for a Wonderful Christmas, from Skopelos Island and the Skopelos.Net Team!!! * January 2, 2016 Best Wishes from Skopelos island and the Skopelos.Net Team ! photo: Sunrise above Skopelos port. * December 31, 2105 IT'S NEW YEAR'S EVE ! It's time to celebrate the memories of the past year and embrace what's to come... * December 24, 2015 The bells of t
Although generally thought of as marine creatures, gulls are really creatures of shorelines. Omnivorous, opportunistic scavengers, the proliferation of open garbage dumps has provided more than ample feeding grounds for such familiar species as the herring gull. This has led to a great increase in their numbers.
These old handmade costumes are preserved in the Folklore Museum of Skopelos, which is located in the center of the town. The costume with the black top and the embroidered flowers was the wedding gown of local women.
Skopelos is an unspoiled jewel in the Aegean Sea, with mountain slopes bedecked in dense greenery carpeting down to fine beaches and limpid waters. Despite being small, Skopelos beaches are varied and aplenty: find olive trees and plum orchards and clumps of pines by the sea’s edge, composed of slender pebbled shores or white bays, caves and coves, plus curious rock formations. (tip) Make sure to pack snorkeling goggles for swimming with curious marine life, especially around the cragged rocks. Spot the occasional turtle and fish of all stripes! The most popular of Skopelos beaches lie on the more wind-sheltered west coast, home to stretches of white shingle and pebbles backed by bars and taverns. On the flip side, the eastern shoreline is peppered with smaller and more peaceful beaches, almost always deserted. Likewise, those in the north are wilder with no facilities. Keep in mind that as a Greek island, strong Meltemi (dry and seasonal) winds can affect some of Skopelos’s beaches in
Paris Prekas (1926-1999) was a well-known Greek artist, some of his works are exhibited in the National Gallery of Athens. He studied at the School of Fine Arts (1948-1952) under Umvertos Argyros, Dimitrios Biskinis and Andreas Georgiadis while in 1963, on a six month scholarship from the French government, he did post-graduate work in Paris. His artistic activity includes solo presentations and appearances in group and international exhibitions, such as the Youth Biennale of Paris in 1959, and the Sao Paolo and Alexandria Biennales of 1965 and 1968 respectively, at which he repeatedly won distinctions. A multifaceted creator, Prekas has been involved with painting, sculpture, decorative design and architectural ornamentation, making compositions for the interior and exterior spaces of apartment buildings and other public and community buildings. In painting he was originally involved with landscape while later, combining Greek reality with myth and tradition, he created thematic whole
--- by Pedro Uhart, "Bateaux de Skopelos", technique: polaroid The polaroids of Pedro Uhart, draw lines between symbolism and images of representations, about recovering that which is contiguous; through the long digression of work and its load of memory, they will be the “evidence” in our library of images, an imaginary museum of the instantaneous. source: Pedro's Uhart website