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Lipsi travel guide
The municipality of Lipsi located in the middle of the island, at the
back of a sheltered bay.
This small town with white houses and blue doors and windows to keeps
its traditional island color.
Other small villages is Kouselio, Katsadia and Our Lady of Haros.Τhe
island has beautiful beaches: the Lientou beach very near to chora and
favored by most people, the Campos, the Platis Gialos, a beautiful beach
with sand, Katsadia to the south, opposite the island of Leros, with a
very good sand, Papandria right from the Katsadia with sand, reeds and
wonderful nature. The Chochlakoura with pebbles, rocks and beautiful
caves, and the Tourkomnima, Xirokambos, Monodendri and Kamares, more
faraway beaches, but worth to visit. Lipsi linked with the neighboring
islands of Patmos and Leros and Rhodes and Piraeus by boat.
The island has a secure natural port that is used by many yachts in the
summer.
There is a refuelling station and water.
The history of Lipsoi is intimately connected with the history of the
larger neighbouring islands and particularly of Patmos. Like all the
islands in the Dodecanese, Lipsi seems to be inhabited by prehistoric
times continuously until today. In various parts of the island are to be
found inscriptions vases dating from the classical period.
The proximity of Patmos allows us to take that Christianity was
spreading to Lipsi already from the 1 st century AD What is important is
the monuments of the early Christian era, which is a great three-aisled
basilica with mosaic floors and vaptistirio commanded "Kouselio"
probably the 5 th century, and the remains of walls, architectural
members, mosaic floors in place "Katsadia", where it is currently
located, Temples of Saint Spyridon and Saint Panteleimon
The most prominent event of the island is a celebration wine was made in
August, and running strongly, as the wine is the main productive product
with a long tradition in the production and export.
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