Located on the eastern borderline of the Aegean Sea, Patmos is the northernmost island of the Dodecanese island group. Its interesting landscape features low barren hills succeeded by small plateaux, while its lacy coastline is deeply intended by tens of promontories forming countless picturesque bays and coves.
Patmos' narrow trunk is made up of a harmonic succession of baren, rocky hills with sparse vegetation leading to an impressive variety of coastline, bays and natural harbours.
For a truly sacred travel experience, make your way to Patmos (Jerusalem of the Aegean). It was on this island that St John wrote his divinely inspired Revelation the Apocalypse, the last book of the New Testament. The intense religious aura is apparent throughout each corner of the island, since there are more than 50 churches and monasteries on it!
The alternating of white and blue, the watery spirit that surrounds the island, sometimes clear and inaccessible, other times calm and fixed, and at times, once again poetic...
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