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Nissi Beach
The 500 meters of Nissi beach are covered with thin white sand but some places have rocks that can hurt your feet if you are not paying attention to where you step. This amazing beach is awarded with a blue flag which simply means that is regularly checked for water quality and provide all necessary facilities to enjoy a carefree day on the beach
Nissi Beach
This amazing beach is named Nissi (in Greek nissi means island) as a small islet is located near the coast. Only shallow waters separate the islet from the coast so someone can reach it very easily on foot. The position of the islet provides protection from big waves and the visitors will enjoy almost always a very calm sea.
Nissi Beach
Nissi beach in Agia Napa is considered one of the most beautiful beaches in Cyprus. The white sand gives a light blue color to the sea and when you are there it's seems like you are inside of a carte postale from some exotic destination.
Spinalónga, Lasithi, Greece
A leper, exiled from civilization, looks at the shore where all of his loved ones continue living their lives. Freedom is just 5 minutes away with a small fishing boat, but he was condemned for ever to a life of isolation
Spinalónga, Lasithi, Greece
Spinalonga's history is not just one more tale of humanity's monstrosity, an Auschwitz for the cursed or a manifestation of society fear. It's mostly a story of hope, a story of affection between those that have no future and those that deny the social norms, but most of all it is a story of love and the desire to live and struggle for what is right. It's the story of miss Tasia's husband that never left her side and stay with her on the island, the story of miss Fani, that she couldn't left her ill husband but lived with him in the leprosy hospital and the story of Eleni, a nurse that decided to inject the blood of her leper husband into her veins as she couldn't live apart from him.
Spinalónga, Lasithi, Greece
In 2010 one of the most expensive Greek television productions premiered on Mega channel, a Greek national wide coverage TV network. The series was based on the best selling novel of Victoria Hislop, 'The island' and was able to attract 6 out of 10 people watching TV at the time each episode was aired. More than 3.5 million people watched the premier and each subsequent episode. The filming took place on the original locations including Plaka, Spinalonga, Elounda amd Agios Nikolaos. The series was a huge success and gave a lot of publicity to the island as many Greeks wanted to visit the locations their favorite show was filmed.
Spinalónga, Lasithi, Greece
The last inhabitant left Spinalonga in 1962. He was the father Chrisanthos a priest of the Greek Orthodox Church who spent 5 years more on Spinalonga after its abandonment to maintain the religious tradition to memorialize buried people at 3 and 5 years after their deaths. Father Chrisanthos was not a leper and never got ill from the disease during the years he spent on the island. He became a legend for the people of Spinalonga when he decided to drink last from the holy communion (this is what a priest is supposed to do) and not throw the communion away as his predecessor did before him.
Spinalónga, Lasithi, Greece
Leprosy perhaps is one of the oldest documented human diseases and references can be found in texts written thousands years ago. The disease leaves marks on the skin mostly on limps and face that give a terrifying look to people infected. For this reason, lepers were treated as unclean and became outcasts of the society. The biblical perception of leprosy was that people infected were punished by the god for their sins. Today, we know that the disease is curable, is caused by bacteria and most of people are immune to it.
