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Aegina Island 2005
Trip to Aegina Island Greece 2005
more PHOTOS of Aegina
Aegina Island is closest Island to Athens - from Pireus it is less then 50 minutes by the high speed boat
(Hellenic Seaways)
and about 1 hour by norma ferry (Blue Star ferry)
We got the Aegina in the afternoon in April on the Easter. All the island was ready for the Easter night.
Preparing the Easter meal at home or buying candles for thing visit of the orthodox church. We have bot also some.
We found accommodation very close to the port of Aegina in small hotel for 50 EUR per double room per night.
It was small room with
own bathroom and TV. It was ok accommodation. Just infront of our room was restaurant (full of people) and everywhere aroud the restaurant garden
were hanged octopuses (they get dry them in this way) it seems to us very strange to so many Octopuses
In the evening people start to going to the Church, slowly the streets gets crowded. All women were dressed in black with black chuddar like from the last century.
But it looks romantic
and make you feel with respect.
The ceremony (ritual in the church was mighty). There was a crib with lots of flowers and the people goes there one by one creeps under the crib. (Old women and men as well)
Them they lights the candles and walk together through the old town in Aegina Island. The streets was full of people holding candle walking home or to some friends home to share together
the big day.
We have been invated to one family who has hous 10 min driver from the port. We spent the great evening talking about greeks and Greece.
I found funy the aswer when i asked what is the typical for Easters - the answer was " We buying so many food just for the preparing it, but then we do not eat it"
The next day we walked along the cost there are wild beaches, and ancients monuments
On the Aegina Island are lots of Pistacia trees and everywhere they are available in the shops on variety styles
Around noon we take boat back to Athens
It very pleasant trip to Aegina Island and the advantage it that its really close to Athens. The island has not same atmospher as the other greek island maybe because there are many
athenians - coming for the weekend or for holidays - but all in all very nice
About the AEGINA ISLAND
Aegina, one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, 31 miles (50 km) from Athens.
Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of Aeacus, who was born in and ruled the island.
In shape Aegina is triangular, eight miles (13 km) long from northwest to southeast, and six miles (15 km) broad, with an area of about 41 square miles (106 km).
Two thirds of Aegina constitute an extinct volcano.
The northern and western side consist of stony but fertile plains, which are well cultivated and produce luxuriant crops of grain,
with some cotton, vines, almonds, olives and figs, but the most characteristic crop of today Aegina is the pistachio.
The southern volcanic part of the island is rugged and mountainous, and largely barren.
Its highest rise is the conical Mount Oros in the south, and the Panhellenian ridge stretches northward with narrow fertile valleys on either side.
From the absence of marshes the climate is the most healthy in Greece.
The island forms part of the modern Uomos of Attica and Boeotia, of which it forms an eparchy. The sponge fisheries are of considerable importance.
The capital is the town of Aegina, situated at the northwestern end of the island, the summer residence of many Athenian merchants.
Capo d'Istria (1776-1831) had a large building erected intended for a barracks, which was subsequently used as a museum, a library and a school.
The museum was the first institution of its kind in Greece, but the collection was transferred to Athens in 1834. A statue in the principal square comemorates him
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