Skopelos is an island in the Aegean Sea and belongs to the Sporades.There are regular ferries to the port of Skopelos from Agios Konstantinos, Kymi and Volos, and the journey takes about 3 to 4 hours. In ancient times it was called Peparithos and was famous for its wine, it got its current name during Hellenistic times. Ιs the greenest island of the Sporades and has been characterized as a traditional settlement. Town and Glossa boast a unique traditional architecture that makes them incredibly photogenic. You’ll find a great selection of hotels, shops and traditional taverns where you can taste the local delicacies. There are numerous beaches with crystal clear cobalt waters, such as Stafylos, Panormos and Elios. Popular island-hopping itineraries are from Skopelos to Skiathos and from Skopelos to Alonissos. The most popular site on the island is hands down the church of Agios Ioannis in Kastri, because the wedding scenes of Mamma Mia movie were shot there. You must give a try to tradition pie due to a traditional technique that is made make them delicious and unique. Also, you can buy local products by supporting the women’s agro-tourism Cooperative of Glossa by buying local traditional long-lasting products such as spoon sweets and other traditional sweets of your taste.

Hóra drapes itself over the westerly slope closing off a broad, north-facing bay, with a ruined Venetian castle up top; tiers of imposing, often slate-roofed mansions and churches – reputedly 123 of the latter, including frequent postcard star Panagítsa tou Pýrgou – reveal themselves to arriving boats rounding the headland. Away from the inevitable waterside commercial strip, the town is decidedly time-warped, with wonderfully idiosyncratic shops of a sort long vanished elsewhere in Greece. Domestic architecture, including some superb arcades and balconied facades, is largely unadulterated with tasteless monstrosities as on most other islands. For more on the local building style, see French Skopelo-phile Marc Held’s illustrated Skopelos: The Landscapes and Vernacular Architecture of an Aegean Island (sold locally).

Stáfylos, 4km from Hóra, is the closest proper beach, though small and crowded, with a single, merely adequate taverna at road’s end. Better to walk five minutes east over the headland to more scenic, sand-and-pea-gravel Velanió, 600m long with a nudist zone and a seasonal kantína.

Agnóndas, about 3km west, has a small beach but mostly serves as an alternate ferry port; among several tavernas, best is Pavlos, for seafood, unusual mezédes like tsitsírava (pickled terebinth shoots) and Apostolakis bulk wine. There’s better, white sand at Limnonári cove just to the west.

As the coastline bends to face west rather than south, the first substantial place is Pánormos bay, popular with yachts owing to its abundant, protected anchorage, somewhat less so with bathers owing to a steeply shelving, gravelly shore. Just around the corner, Miliá beach(photo)is superior, with two 400-metre arcs of tiny pebbles opposite Dhassía islet separated by a headland with a sometimes noisy beach bar at the south cove. Parking in season is impossible unless you patronize the single, fortunately good taverna with its private lot. Kastáni beach, immediately north with its own access drive, was a major Mamma Mia! location but despite this is far calmer, with a naturist zone and no amenities besides a kantína working out of a converted bus. There are more secluded beaches at Hóvolo, outside otherwise dreary Élios (Néo Klíma) village, built to rehouse victims of the 1965 quake, and Armenópetra, with the ship-shaped rock of the name just offshore.