 Inhhabited since antiquity, Agathonissi according to ancient historians, writers and geographers was named YETOUSSA. It changed various names to its current, which declares the kind character ot its inhabitants ("agathos" for good in Greek). Agathonissi consists of three settlements - St. George (which is also the island's harbour), Megalo Chorio and Micro Chorio. From an archaeological view, on Agathonissi there are many Byzantine findings as well as numerous churches and chapels. You will definitely visit the unique in their kind throughout the Dodecanese complex of islands "Domes", Byzantine sites most likely to have been used for storing food supplies. |
ΑΞΙΟΘΕΑΤΑ : ΞΙΟΘΕΑΤΑ : about Marathi which seems to emanate total tranquility--a feeling which is absorbed almost through the skin, like the vitamin D of the Greek sunshine. We often seem to have trouble dragging people away from this little isolated paradise island. Just two families live here in true Greek style, there are of course, two tavernas! A tiny, ruined church sits at the top of the hill; many an evening has been spent saluting the Sun God with a good bottle of wine or two, and taking the most spectacular sunset photos! 
