Holidays in Skopelos

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Holidays in Skopelos
It is known that Skopelos could be the greenest of all several islands of Greece as soon as you've spent a little time checking out this marvelous place it is a challenging claim to reject. With 5 million pines, 50,000 olive trees and only five thousand residents it is a place where the natural world dominates and the heat of the beaches is fringed by the cool of the forests.

There are also many broad leaf trees to be seen with sweet chestnuts, walnuts and oak trees and Skopelos has been famous for the production of plums which were dried in the many plum ovens that create one of the many architectural features seen throughout Skopelos.

The two towns of the island - Skopelos and Glossa - are also of great charm their gorgeous houses with tiled roofs, colourful shutters and balconies overhanging narrow alleyways winding up the hills they are situated on creating a charming but real environment in which to have a home. Skopelos town is the capital of the island and has all the modern services you could require but wandering up from the mulberry tree lined harbour front, through the myriad of lanes, passed the countless small churches, to the medieval castle you could be in any of the past few centuries.

Skopelos is a largely unspoilt island, which has avoided the ravages of mass tourism but has a good mix of foreign travellers and residents with Greek tourists and the local population.